20170409 - Black Lace Inc (hrb)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Amanda Biewer, of Chicago gets a compass tattoo on her forearm by Meg Flowers, artist/piercer, at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Amanda Biewer, of Chicago shows off the compass tattoo on her forearm made by Meg Flowers, artist/piercer, at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Amanda Biewer, of Chicago gets a compass tattoo on her forearm by Meg Flowers, artist/piercer, at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Meg Flowers, tattoo artist/master piercing specialist, talks about taking sixty-five percent out of tattoo pain at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake. Flowers has created a healing balm to soothe the skin for people getting tattoos.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Meg Flowers, artist/piercer works on tattooing a compass on the forearm of Amanda Biewer, of Chicago at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake. Flowers uses her own hand-made healing balm to calm the skin down throughout the tattooing process.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Alex Hasting, tattoo artist and piercing specialist and Meg Flowers, tattoo artist and master piercing specialist, talk with Audra Kramer, 29, of Milwaukee, Wis., about her migraine headaches as she sits next to her sister, Kiki, 22, at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake. Kramer was at Black Lace Ink to get a migraine piercing in the cartilage of her ear.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Meg Flowers, artist/piercer works on tattooing a compass on the forearm of Amanda Biewer, of Chicago at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Meg Flowers, tattoo artist and master piercing specialist, shows the small curved barbells she uses for migraine piercings, pierced in the cartilage of the ear, at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Brittany Scheck, of Grayslake gets a custom-made tattoo with a flower design put on her left shoulder by Alex Hasting, tattoo artist and piercing specialist, at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Brittany Scheck, of Grayslake gets a custom-made tattoo with a flower design put on her left shoulder by Alex Hasting, tattoo artist and piercing specialist, at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Audra Kramer, 29, of Milwaukee shows off the migraine piercing in her ear after getting it done at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake.

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Amanda Biewer, of Chicago shows off her compass tattoo she just had done by Meg Flowers, artist/piercer at Black Lace Ink in Grayslake.