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Skin as a gallery. Meet the tattooed models of Gangsta Ink and the stories behind their ink.

Interviews

🔒 Members only🔓 UnlockedOra Marzo, Gangsta Ink summer issue cover model
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Ora Marzo

Born in France, raised in Canada

Our summer issue cover star on lace-like ink, the flowers she wears for her parents, and the whiskey-fueled tattoo she’ll never live down.

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🔒 Members only🔓 UnlockedJayde Lee Luxxe showing her tattoos
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Jayde Lee

Australia

A true beauty from the land down under on her sons’ names across her stomach, the ex-crush tattoo that backfired, and why she’s keeping one arm clean.

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🔒 Members only🔓 UnlockedWillow Rae with pink hair and hand tattoos
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Willow Rae

Ontario, Canada

Fifty-five tattoos and counting: Willow Rae on her parents’ handwriting on her collarbones, going for full coverage, and the session that made her scream.

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Featured models

Valeria Montes showing a black and grey portrait tattoo with a butterfly on her arm
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Valeria Montes

26 · East Los Angeles, California

An East LA barber who carries her abuela’s portrait on one arm and her mother’s red roses on the other.

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Mia Lindqvist showing her illustrative black and grey arm tattoos
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Mia Lindqvist

28 · Gothenburg, Sweden

A Swedish hairstylist in Austin whose illustrative sleeves mix Norse myth, a sun that never sets and a snake that started it all.

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Nia Adebayo showing her black and grey realism sleeve with a portrait and flowers
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Nia Adebayo

27 · Peckham, London, UK

A London-born makeup artist in Atlanta with a realism sleeve for her mother and a red-ink 222 that became her signature.

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