Gold Winner Helena Darling, Darling Tattoos Silver Winner Rebecca O’Quinn, Heirloom Tattoo Bronze Winner Amber Thorpe, Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio For every Diply listicle of bad tattoo photos, there are hundreds of tattoo artists who weep at the mere sight of poorly done body art. A surefire way to avoid any tattoo ragerts […]
Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio
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Best Tattoo / Piercing Joint
Gold Winner Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio, Halifax Silver Winner Heirloom Tattoo Bronze Winner Oceanic Art You want to have a good impression of the people who are going to pierce or permanently ink your body. And for the seventh year in a row, readers chose Adept’s Halifax location as their go-to tattoo/piercing spot. […]
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Best Tattoo Artist
Gold Winner Rebecca O’Quinn, Heirloom Tattoo Silver Winner Helena Darling, Darling Tattoos Bronze Winner Amber Thorpe, Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio It’s been four years since Rebecca O’Quinn went out on her own and opened Heirloom Tattoo. Clearly, Halifax loves her style—this is O’Quinn’s third year topping the podium. “It’s such an honour,” says […]
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Best Tattoo / Piercing Joint
Gold Winner Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio, Halifax Silver Winner Oceanic Art Bronze Winner HFX Tattoo Company Though Kirsten Wells is newish to her management position at Adept, she knew the ranks she’d be joining. “It’s our sixth year winning—but we were a little nervous [this year] as so many new places opened,” she […]
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Best Tattoo Artist
Gold Winner Rebecca O’Quinn, Heirloom Tattoo Silver Winner Helena Darling, HFX Tattoo Company Bronze Winner Amber Thorpe, Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio Rebecca O’Quinn’s tattoo style—softly shaded yet crisply outlined, with a penchant for romantic, tumbling florals—explains for itself why this is her second year cribbing the Best Tattoo Artist title. But O’Quinn still […]
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Best Tattoo Artist
Gold Winner Rebecca O’Quinn, Heirloom Tattoo Silver Winner Helena Darling, HFX Tattoo Bronze Winner Amber Thorpe, Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio Almost exactly one year ago, Rebecca O’Quinn made the decision to bet on herself. She left the tattoo studio she’d been working at—which was nice enough, but not the perfect fit—to go solo, […]
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Best Tattoo / Piercing Joint
Gold Winner Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio, Halifax Silver Winner HFX Tattoo Bronze Winner Oceanic Art If you’re going to place an image on your body permanently, you better pick the best place to do it—and that is, for its fifth year running, Adept Tattoos. Its flagship location on Quinpool Road—there’s also one on […]
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Best Tattoo Artist
Gold Winner Helena Darling, HFX Tattoo Company Silver Winner Amber Thorpe, Adept Tattoos Bronze Winner Lydia K., Gem Tattoo Co. With everyone from the crustiest punk to your own grandmother up for ink these days, competition has never been stiffer in the tattoo game. This year you drew an intricate line around Helena Darling at […]
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Best Tattoo/Piercing Joint
Gold Winner Adept Tattoos Silver Winner HFX Tattoo Company Bronze Winner Oceanic Art For the fourth year in a row, Adept Tattoos snags the honour of Halifax’s Best Tattoo/Piercing joint. Owner—and award-winning artist—Amber Thorpe is humble about the sweep, crediting Adept’s arsenal of artists with the shop’s success. “All our artists work so hard, doing […]
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Best Tattoo Artist
Gold Winner Lydia K., Gem Tattoo Co. Silver Winner Helena Darling, HFX Tattoo Bronze Winner Amber Thorpe, Adept Tattoos Getting something permanently inked on your body can be a choice hastily made or painstakingly deliberated over. It doesn’t matter really—in the words of Philly’s scuzz rockers The Tough Shits, a tattoo is just a cool […]
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Best Tattoo / Piercing Joint
Gold Winner Adept Tattoos, Quinpool Road Silver Winner HFX Tattoo Bronze Winner Sin on Skin Tattoos Three years, three gold place wins for Adept Tattoos as Halifax’s Best Tattoo/Piercing Joint. Owner Amber Thorpe was your 2010 and 2011 choice for Best Tattoo Artist herself, so the attention to detail Adept crafts with their craft shouldn’t […]
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Best Tattoo Artist
Gold Winner Lydia K., Gem Tattoo Co. Silver Winner Amber Thorpe, Adept Tattoos Bronze Winner Andy Ferrier, Utility Lydia K’s Gem Tattoo Co. is a weird and wonderful polestar of classic tattoo art, intricate designs and general cool body markings. Located at 5926 Hillside Ave #2, Lydia’s talent has her business bustling. It’s a one-woman […]