Gold Winner Adept Tattoos Silver Winner Utility Bronze Winner Oceanic Art Custom Tattooing Fastidiousness may not immediately spring to mind as something you should look for in a tattoo studio, but trust me, you should. Owner and artist Amber Thorpe (your 2010 and 2011 choice for best tattoo artist) and the crew at Adept Tattoo […]
Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio
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Best Tattoo / Piercing Joint
Gold Winner Adept Tattoos Silver Winner Utility Bronze Winner Oceanic Art Custom Tattooing This year Adept Tattoos shook things up by taking out longstanding gold winner Utility for highest honours as Best Tattoo/Piercing joint. Both shops can be found on Quinpool Road, since Utility moved from its Blowers Street location in 2010, but Adept’s award-winning […]
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Amber Thorpe: Meet the artist
Tattooing since 2000 From Niagara Falls, Ontario Trained with Charlie “Harley Charlie” Duarte at Way Cool Tattoos Style Bright, bold colours are what people most know me for. What’s popular in your shop right now? We do custom work, so it’s definitely a mix. But in Halifax anything to do with the sea, the ocean, […]
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Best Tattoo Artist
Gold Winner Amber Thorpe, Adept Tattoos Silver Winner Lydia Klenck (aka Stalingrad), Utility Bronze Winner Andy Ferrier, Utility A sure sign you’ve reached the top of your profession is when your clients will go to jail for you. “She just did my back piece,” comments a reader who voted for gold-winning tattoo artist Amber Thorpe, […]
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Best Tattoo / Piercing Joint
Gold Winner Utility Silver Winner Adept Tattoos Bronze Winner Kara’s Urban Day Spa There are two aspects to a tattoo business, the art side and the shop side. The art has obvious importance, as you can see winners of the Best Tattoo Artist category work at the places that come out on top of this […]
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Best Tattoo Artist
Once again in 2011, Amber Thorpe helped bring us the Maritime Tattoo Festival, the fifth annual, as a matter of fact. As if she wasn’t busy enough, her store—Adept Tattoos on Quinpool Road—is a place with a constant buzz from the sound of needles burrowing into flesh. Thorpe has a whack of experience under her […]
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Best Tattoo / Piercing Joint
Utility recently moved out of the downtown core on Blowers to their new location, the former Quinpool shop of Pro Skates. By all accounts, they’re as busy as ever, offering piercing and custom tattoo work, headed by multiple Best of Halifax-winner Andy Ferrier. And watch for special events: for Sailor Jerry’s birthday they offered walk-ins […]
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Best Tattoo / Piercing Joint
Despite the enduring popularity of the tattoo parlour and art gallery—new shows go up on its walls regularly—they still take walk-ins when they can fit them in. They’re also seeing their piercing service grow, with brand new jewellery available to fill that nipple piercing you’ve been craving, which can be done by one of the […]