Honest Tattooer Podcast

How Small Tattoos Age with Gordo and Daniela Segal

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano host the Honest Tattoo Podcast with guests Daniela Segal and Gordo. They reminisce about meeting years ago through the No Idol

When Tattooers Should Say No

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano do a one-on-one episode about when tattooers need to say no, including turning down projects outside their strengths, designs

Fashion Trends Or The Future Of Tattooing with Edoardo Taglioretti

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano are joined by guest tattooer Edoardo Taglioretti, a 12-year artist from Italy who specializes in new school and bio-organic ta

Ruining Your Your Mom's Face

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk about the importance of choosing the right artist for the job, what makes a good portrait reference, lining at the end of a large, mul

How AI Is Changing Tattooing with Charles Arizmendy and Skylar Phung

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa, Matt Truiano, and Matt Buck talk with guest tattooer Charles Arizmendy  and later Skylar Phung about how AI is affecting tattooing, especially

Are Tattooers Cringe? with Fabian

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattooer podcast, Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano sit down with Matt Buck  and guest Fabian, a New York tattooer of 13 years with a graffiti bac

When Do You Feel Like a “Real” Tattooer with Amanda Malia and Jacob Satterlee

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattooer podcast, hosts Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano talk with guest tattooer/shop owner Amanda Malia and her apprentice Jacob Satterly. They

Will Biotech, Robots & AI Shape Tattooing’s Future with Joe Capobainco

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattooer podcast, Jon Mesa, Matt Truiano, and guests Joe Capobianco, Ermis and Matt Buck discuss who will shape tattooing’s future as outs

Looking At Your Tattoos 10 Years Later with Lalo Yunda

Send us Fan Mail This week we take a look at an instagram post that shows Michelle DiDonato Quinones' tattoos fresh vs healed as we learn what works and what doesn&

What Makes a Tattooer Hireable with Aaron Davis

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa, Matt Truiano, and guest Aaron Davis (Atlanta-based tattooer specializing in Afro-Americana, tattooing 7+ years) discuss what makes a tattooer

Fineline Tattooing with Joe Redding

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano sit down with special guest Joe Redding (@coyoteeyes), a fine line and black-and-gray micro realism tattooer who apprenticed i

Coming to America with Eoghann McGregor

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattoo Podcast, Jon Mesa and  Matt Truiano welcome guest tattooer Eoghann McGregor, a Scottish artist now working in  New York, who has be

Neo-Pre-Eckelism with Russ Abbott

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa, Matt Truiano  welcome guest Russ Abbott back to the Honest Tattooer podcast and discuss his major fitness changes, how improved health impacts

Heads Up! with Michael L.

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa, Matt Truiano, Gabe (“G Money”), and guests Michael L. and Matt Buck play Heads Up Tattoo artist edition hosted by Vega to identify tattoo-rela

Shop Managing with Bunnie Lebowski

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano talk with special guest Bunny about her path through tattoo culture from the early 1990s to New York City. Bunny recalls getti

What Keeps A Tattooer Going For Hours with David Martinez and Dat

Send us Fan Mail The Honest Tattooer podcast welcomes  guests David and Dat discussing their backgrounds, preferred styles, and the realities of long back-to-back tattoo

West Coast Tats In Jersey with Ses

Send us Fan Mail The hosts interview Ses about how tattooing was harder to enter in the early ’90s without the internet, leading him to start underground as a “scratcher

Solving Your Problems with Pony Lawson

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattooer podcast, Jon, Matt, Ermes, and Pony read listener letters about common tattoo shop problems: shops favoring artists with big soci

The Corporate Takeover with Pony Lawson

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Tooling Around with Joshua Bowers

Send us Fan Mail We back guest Joshua Bowers about a year after his last appearance, this time with show-and-tell including the Steel Driver rotary that emulates a coil