Fresh ink — rather than fresh cash — was the main attraction Friday at a Queens casino.
Hordes of tattoo lovers — and hundreds of the best artists in the world — turned up at the Resorts World Casino for the United Ink No Limits Tattoo show.
“I have 99 artists on my body,” said Yallzee Quinones, a self-proclaimed “tattoo collector” who traveled to New York from Puerto Rico solely for the convention.
“Usually a normal customer will say, ‘I want this.’ For me, I like to give [the artist] the freedom. Who better to decide than the artist?”
The convention, which runs until Sunday, is the brainchild of Lou “Tattoo Lou” Rubino, owner of the World Famous Ink Shop in Islandia, L.I..
“We have a bigger variety of artists from around the world this year,” Rubino said, referencing artists from Sweden, China, Italy, Australia, Russia and Japan.
Among the top-flight talent offering to ink up all comers was Russian tattoo artist Constantine Elerudo, 27.
Elerudo’s chest is covered by a highly-intricate raccoon tattoo, which has garnered more than 10 awards.
“There are no second or third places on my body,” he said. “These are all first places.”
Leah Jung, a tattoo model from Brooklyn, said she first got into the business after doing some promo shots for her music career.
“They came out great and people kept telling me to send them to magazines so I did,” said Jung, who now has 450,000 followers on Facebook.
Jung’s photos quickly garnered attention from a variety of tattoo magazines and she subsequently put her music career on hold in order to focus on modeling.
“I just came from a tattoo convention in Switzerland and will (travel) to Morocco next week to hold a lecture on tattoo discrimination,” Jung said. “This is my whole life now.”
ED SHEERAN PLANS TO COVER ENTIRE BODY IN INK IN NEXT FEW MONTHS: TATTOO ARTIST
Stephanie Maldonado, 29, of New Jersey, had Miami-based tattoo artist Roy Gonzalez do a Walking Dead-inspired tattoo on her left thigh.
“I found him on Instagram,” Maldonado said, mentioning that she let Gonzales choose the subject matter. “I’d rather have somebody who knows what he’s doing decide.”
Maldonado recalled her first tattoo, which she got when she was only 12.
“I got bored and told my cousin I wanted one,” she said, pointing out that her cousin is a tattoo artist. “He made a little butterfly on my back and I’ve been hooked ever since.”
