EIKON TEAM | PUBLISHED MAY 30, 2025

HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY NIX!!

This month we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Canada’s oldest Tattoo Convention - NIX, we’ll also take a deeper look at numbing creams and sprays to answer the age old question “Will it Hurt?”, and last but not least, we have a peek inside Eikon Convention packs and their eikonic history. Let’s do this!

DID YOU KNOW?.../

Over the past 20+ years we’ve built, shipped, and handed out nearly 30,000 convention packs, each designed to provide all the supplies you'd need to set-up for, and tear-down, 6 tattoos. I guess you could say Eikon Convention Packs have played a small role in the creation of over 175,000 tattoos!

Let's take a quick look back at the origins of Eikon Convention Packs, which first appeared in 2001 at the now legendary NIX Convention in Toronto.

FLASHBACK TO WHEN IT ALL BEGAN

ARTISTS ASKED/

Numbing creams and sprays are starting to take over in shops, and on the convention floor… The good old days of numbing the pain with something a little more, shall we say… “natural” 💨, are long gone and Lidocaine is the new drug of choice for today's collector. With that in mind, let’s tap our powerhouse Customer Service team to answer the question we get at every convention, from artists and collectors alike: “What’s the best numbing cream/spray?” - Find out in our post in The Buzzz

NUMB & NUMBER

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ARTIST PICKS/

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Insider Extras/

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