Kristyn Pelletier, left, Ben Quimby, Jonathan Carvalho and Pat Cyr wait outside Altered Image Tattoo Friday for $13 tattoos in Lewiston. Tattoos for $13 are a tradition at some tattoo shops every year on Friday the 13th. Five more customers were inside.
Bernadette "Queen B" Racine works on a tattoo of a ghost Friday on the arm of Lily Bissonette at Altered Image Tattoo in Lewiston. Tattoos for $13 are a tradition at some tattoo shops every year on Friday the 13th. Racine decided to keep the tradition going at the Lewiston shop for at least another year.
Lily Bissonette of Auburn said that the tattoo on her arm is not a Friday the 13th $13 special. Bissonette and her sister, Eliza, left came to Altered Image Tattoo Friday in Lewiston to add to their tattoo collection.
Adam Burdin waits to pay for the $13 tattoo of a crow that he had done Friday at Altered Image in Lewiston. Ryan "Rhino" Dean fields a call at the busy shop.
Tattoo artist Bernadette Racine is known as "Queen B" to her customers. Racine recently received her license after working as an apprentice. Friday the 13th tattoo specials are a way for Racine to get her name out there. "I absolutely love it," said Racine. "I get to draw for a living."
Lily Bissonette and Brandon Langlois, both of Auburn, take a look at their ghost tattoos Friday at Altered Image Tattoo in Lewiston.
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