Some popular impulse purchases — tattoos and body piercings — could soon become less impulsive if District health regulators have their way.
A mandatory 24-hour waiting period is among the provisions included in a 66-page package of draft regulations governing the “body art” industry released by the city Health Department on Friday.
Written by Mike DeBonis.
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Personally, we’re extremely nervous around needles. We’ve fainted every single time we’ve had to get blood drawn, and once it was just at the mere mention of having to get poked. So it always blows us away when folks voluntarily get pierced….just because we’d never in a million years be able to do it, ourselves!
Written by Jordan Runtagh.
It seems like you can’t go anywhere these days without running into someone who has at least one tattoo. The art form once reserved for sailors and military servicemen now attracts people of all walks of life. So how does one stand out from the tatted crowd? How about getting a digital tattoo? Artist Anthony Antonellis had a small RFID chip encased in glass implanted between his thumb and index finger. The chip contains a GIF of pixelated rainbows colors readable by a compatible smartphone. “Think of it as a changeable, digital net art tattoo versus fixed information,” Antonellis told Animal New York. It’s not the fact that he cut open his hand and inserted a chip that stumps us. It’s why he chose a rainbow GIF over a cute pet GIF that has us scratching our heads.
Written by MSN Now.
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In the corner of a small prison, near a cell that contained only a bed, a cement desk, a toilet and a tiny sink, the body of a former NFL star was being examined for gang tattoos.
It was July, and officers from the Bristol County House of Correction’s gang intelligence unit were taking pictures of all the tattoos on Aaron Hernandez’s body. They also interviewed Hernandez about any past gang affiliations, according to the jail’s sheriff, Thomas Hodgson.
Written by Mike Freeman.
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It’s a trend that won’t stop growing. Instead of putting pen to paper, artists now are putting pen to people.
The business of tattoos is not only lucrative, it’s reaching new heights.
“We’re not thugs or rock stars,” explains Bobby Real owner of Cartel Ink in Carmichael. “We’re art-geeks. We carry pencils, not guns.”
Written by Mark Demsky.
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People are always asking Marc Jacobs what he’ll think when he’s 80. Will he regret the SpongeBob SquarePants on his right arm if it wrinkles or droops? Or will he feel sorry about the line drawing on his stomach of a sofa by Jean-Michel Frank, or the sketch of a laughing Elizabeth Taylor wearing 3-D glasses, or any of the words, like oui, lui (both name-checking seventies adult magazines),shameless, or bros before hos (he was going through a breakup)? And if he ever abandons his strict regimen of juices and the gym, would he feel differently about that famous scene from Poltergeistsliding down his back?
His answer is: Who knows what he’ll think about all of this 30 years from now? But even more than that: Who cares?
Written by Amy Larocca.
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If you’re into tats, the Neal Blaisdell Exhibition Hall was the place to be Friday, and coming into the spotlight is old-school art from Polynesia.
On one side, Samoan tatau. Hawaiian kakau on the other.
“The traditional Polynesian tattoos all have significance,” said Pauhi master tattooist Keone Nunes. “Every line has a meaning, every line has a name.”
Written by Justin Fujioka.
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Shrill shrieks pierce the humid morning air outside the famous tattoo Thai temple of Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Chai Si, Thailand. On this clear, hot morning more than ten thousand have gathered to be a part of festival that honors Buddhist monks and others who ink the sacred lines into the bodies of the devoted. Through the morning, first one, then two and then many will transform into what appear to be an altered state and played out to the crowd of onlookers gathered in the graveled parking lot. These Thai men, all devotees to Wat Bang Phra, have entered into a trance called “Khong Khuen,” or a magical force rising, and this is the festival known as “Wai Kru.”
Written by David Longstreath.
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WEDNESDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) — Millions of Americans head to the tattoo parlor to get “inked” each year, but a new study suggests that getting a tattoo over a mole or birthmark may not be healthy.
That’s because having a tattoo over a mole especially can make it difficult to detect the development of skin cancer, the researchers said.
Written by Robert Preidt.
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