06/13/2025
When Friday the 13th rolls around, tattoo shops don’t shudder or balk – they prepare to throw open their doors. Lines often stretch down sidewalks. Artists load up on flash sheets. Across the U.S. and increasingly, across the globe, thousands of people will mark a day steeped in superstition with permanent ink.
“There’s a whole history of it down from Dallas,” Brayden Mendoza of Black Line Kulture said. “There’s a big thing with Oliver Peck that’s pushed a lot of it into the more modern end of it, and they’re who really kind of popularized the come and go, the fast nature of doing as much as you can. That’s where a lot of the big walk-in culture is from – over on Elm Street.”
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