From midnight Thursday to midnight Friday, Peck completed 415 tattoos, applying the unlucky number 13 to scores of arms, legs, ankles, backs, thighs and even some rear ends.

They usually include the number 13 in the design. "People get the Friday the 13th tattoos because they’re cheap. They come in with $20 and they can walk away with a tattoo, which is really not ...

A tattoo shop tradition is to offer $13 tattoos on Friday the 13th, plus a “lucky” $7 tip. If you’re in the market for some ink, you can drop by either of the Newport Tattoo shops or Blue ...

Thirteen may be an unlucky number, but on Friday 13 it was firmly etched in the mind of one Dallas tattooist and on the arms, legs and tummies of hundreds of his customers.

In an interview with Tattoo.com, Oliver Peck, the famous tattoo artist who started the Friday the 13th tattooing craze, spoke on this, “Bad luck would come your way, it would see the number 13 ...

The holiday even has roots in the D-FW area (Dallas, to be specific): On Friday, June 13, 2008, Elm Street Tattoo shop co-owner Oliver Peck decided to tattoo the number 13 on as many customers as ...

Many Chicago-area tattoo shops are running specials for the day, week or month to celebrate. Here are 13 parlors where you can permanently mark yourself with a memento of the (un)lucky date.

Tattooing the number 13 on Friday 13th has been a tradition among tattoo addicts long before Jason Voorhees climbed out of Crystal Lake and donned a hockey mask to silence a few horny campers by ...

The number 13 may feel unlucky to some, but it's Taylor Swift's lucky number. ... Get tatted: Some tattoo parlors run $13 tattoo specials every Friday the 13th.

In a 2017 interview with Vice, Peck said he definitely wasn’t the first person to tattoo the number 13 and tattoos with the number 13 at a cheap price on Friday the 13th. But he did say he was ...

Some parlors give flash tattoos for just $13 (usually plus a $7 tip, for luck). Flash is a simple, pre-drawn tattoo design that is meant to be done quickly. Last year only had one Friday the 13th ...