Gold Winner Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio, Halifax Silver Winner Darling Tattoos Bronze Winner Oceanic Art At Adept Tattoos & Body Piercing Studio, the friendly, diverse and creative space makes things great for both clients and staff. “It allows me to be me,” manager Lisa Faulkner says. “I get to spend my days in […]
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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 / 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/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 / Piercing Joint
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 […]
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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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Derek Hill: Meet the artist
From Lower Sackville Tattooing since 2007 Trained with Scott Forbes, Oceanic Style I like doing a lot of different stuff. My favourite thing is when someone comes in with a cool idea and lets you do your own thing with it. Are you seeing any trends in tattooing these days? A lot of script. Everybody […]
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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 […]
