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Salem Thorne ( he // they )
@blvckthornetattoo.bsky.social
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🪻 tattoo artist 🌷
☆ all bodies and skin tones welcome ☆
⚔️ lifted veil tattoo, asheville nc ⚔️

🌿 books open! dm to schedule 🌿
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ornamental ✨️
August 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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spooky moon from my flash, to start a witchy black and grey sleeve 🦇✨️

thank you for trusting me with your first tattoo! 🫶
a crescent moon tattoo, with a thorny branch and some small accents
August 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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🐑✨️
July 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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🧭🌲🦅💘
July 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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fishhhhh 🪸
July 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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healed bears 🐻🐻🐻
June 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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ooky spooky eldritch belly 🐙
some disembodied tentacles on a torso -- more spooky undersea goodness to come!
June 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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friday the 13th was a success! 💘
June 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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fresh // 2 years healed ✨️

🌿 goblincore wings 🌿
June 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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celebrate your divinity ✨️ happy pride! 🏳️‍⚧️

#transisbeautiful #topsurgerytattoo #ftm
June 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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one more week! mark your calendars for friday the 13th and come on by for the local artist market, discounted tattoo flash, oddities & taxidermy, lingerie, and more ✨️
June 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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🐱💘
June 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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SUMMERWEEEEEEN ✨️🌈

happy pride month! see y'all soon for our friday the 13th event 💘
June 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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sick bear tat 🐻

mostly healed with some minor touchups and fresh background 🏞

#beartattoo #blackandgreytattoo #realismtattoo #naturetattoo
a black and grey tattoo, featuring a family of 3 bears which are surrounded by trees and mountains this tattoo is mostly healed, with some new background trees and a mountain
May 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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finally got to touch up the 2nd tattoo i ever did on a human person! ("before" photo screengrab from insta)

truly incredible to remember how far I've come. biggest thanks to all my wonderful friends who were an integral part of my learning process 🫶
after touchup! a single-line cerberus tattoo, with a red fineline pomegranate added at their request. i thickened some of the lines and added some line weight to create a brush-pen effect to cover my errors without making the whole outline too thick. before the touchup! the tattoo was supposed to be fineline but it was very inconsistent, faded in some areas and blown out in others.
May 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🌊 FRIDAY THE 13TH 🏝

mark your calendars! friday, june 13th, we're having a flash day unlike any other -- SUMMERWEEN style! 🎃🍍☠️

flash will be PRE-BOOKED, NOT WALK-IN ‼️ dm NOW to claim your favorite design and time slot ⚓️

more in 🧵
May 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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cryptid vignette 🥀

#blackandgreytattoo #cryptidtattoo
a dnd-inspired cryptid tattoo of a human skeleton with the skull of a sandhill crane. the tattoo has a soft grey background and is accented by an ornate vintage frame.
May 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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classic sadgörl 🍓
a fresh traditional style tattoo of a crying black and grey heart. near some older american traditional style tattoos, which aren't my work.
May 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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boys being boys 💘
big redheaded himbo receives a cheek kiss from trans twink
May 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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blackberry branch for one of my fave clients!

#blackberrytattoo #scartattoo #scarcoverup
a fresh blackberry branch tattoo camouflages a well-healed tummy tuck scar
May 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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fun lil dagger from the other day!
a fresh tattoo of a dagger, with a dragonfly and a butterfly
May 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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are y'all ready for hot boi summer?

if not, ask me about realistic 3d nipple graft tattoos! feel more confident this swim season 🫶 offered at a low flat rate 🏳️‍⚧️

#nippletattoo #cosmetictattoo #genderaffirmation #topsurgery #ftm #chestreconstruction
May 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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snagged this ✨️healed✨️ photo the other day when i encountered my client in the wild! this lil guy healed up soo perfectly 🫶
a well-healed ghost mantis tattoo, perched on some crispy dead leaves for camouflage
May 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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fixed up an old bird of paradise tattoo!

✨️after✨️ // before

#fixuptattoo #coveruptattoo #tattoofix #colortattoo
after touchup, the colors are much brighter and the blown out lines are no longer visible, hidden under deeper colors toward the edges. i also added a few petals and leaves and extended the stem to improve the flower's overall shape. before touchup, the colors were very faded and flat, and the lines were too thick and blown out. the structure of the flower was not quite right, and made it a bit hard to tell what it was.
May 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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had a blast with this tokyo ghoul tattoo yesterday! sat like a rock for the whole thing in one go 🤘

#centipedetattoo #animetattoo #tokyoghoul #fillertattoo #spiderlilies
May 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM