1. What To Consider When Becoming A Tattoo Artist
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

... from books. Allowing yourself plenty of time to practise and learn will help you perfect this skill. Having perfected your skills on paper, you will then need to prove your worth! Build a portfolio ...

2. Risks associated with body piercing
(About Piercing/PIERCING)

... from Titanium or Niobium or similar inert metals. Infection, bacterial or viral, particularly from Staphylococcus aureus, group A streptococcus and Pseudomonas spp. Reports at the 16th European Congress ...

3. Update
(News/NEWS)

 Hey guys all tattoo articles are been modefied. More interesting tattoo and piercing articles are comming every day from now on.   Thank you!  ...

4. Ear - Anti-Tragus
(About Piercing/PIERCING)

   Ear - Anti-Tragus   The antitragus is a feature of human ear anatomy. It is a small tubercle that points anteriorly. It is separated from the tragus by the intertragic notch.  ...

5. About Body piercing
(About Piercing/PIERCING)

... aftercare are emphasized to minimize the likelihood of encountering serious problems. The healing time required for a body piercing may vary widely according to placement, from as little as a month ...

6. Police in Belgium are investigating a complaint from a teenager...
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

  Police in Belgium are investigating a complaint from a teenager who says a tattooist peppered her face with stars after she asked for only three.    Kimberley Vlaeminck, 18, said she fell ...

7. RESPECT: What to ask from artists?
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

... Tattooists (and piercers!) need to realize that not every person who walks in has to look like a grunged-out leather-wearing biker, or a raven-haired Cleopatra-eyed septum-pierced zombie. People from all ...

8. Asking to see their portofolio.
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

  Asking to see their portofolio.    Do NOT be impressed by the flash on the wall. These illustrations are usually purchased from other artists and do not represent the work of your artist. ...

9. Negative associations
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

... bathhouses (sento) and gymnasiums often openly ban those bearing large or graphic tattoos in an attempt to prevent Yakuza from entering.     In the United States many prisoners and criminal ...

10. History
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

   History   Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since around Neolithic times. Otzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Otz valley in the ...

11. How Prison Tattoos are Done
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

... ballpoint pen holds the needle. The device may be rigged up to a small motor which makes it move up and down like a professional tattoo gun. Ink for a prison tattoo might come from a pen, or it might ...

12. Old English Lettering
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

... texts in this form of English were written in this format from the years 1150 to 1500, it was not the only form of lettering used to write Old Englishл     The font called Old English today is ...

13. Tattoo Techniques - East vs West
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

... of needles were lashes, creating a hand powered version much like a Western machine at the working end. Black ink is still ground by hand from sumi by the freshest apprentices in many Japanese tattoo ...

14. A Brief History of Tattoos
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

From ancient tattoos to Modern Primitives Throughout the history of tattoos and its practice the art of driving ink under the skin with sharp implements is common among almost all cultures. Tattoos ...