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Tattoo Mailbag: Get Some Ink With Tattoo City on Facebook
 Found this kind of fun – build and operate your own tattoo parlour in Tattoo City on Facebook!
The Sims + Tattoos = Sick! “If the idea of running a clothing store, or a pet spa are just two bland for you, how does the idea of running a Tattoo Parlor sound to you? You can do just that in Wonderhill’s Tattoo City on Facebook. The goal of the game is simple – create the biggest and best tattoo parlor in existence by tattooing your customers and earning money. The game requires more actual interaction on your part than other Facebook games, as you’ll earn money by taking “shifts,” which are active periods when your Tattoo Parlor is open.” Read: Get Some Ink With Tattoo City on Facebook – Frisky Mongoose |
Tattoo Mailbag: Top 8 Television Tattoos!
See the entire list at Top 8 Television Tattoos! – Watch With Mothers
 Number 6: Will Smith as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Everyone loves the Fresh Prince. Chilling out, maxing, relaxing – all cool. All of that stuff. It was a decent show with a funky theme tune. Fair dos. You have total licence to remember it fondly and bask in nostalgia. But the second you get a tattoo of it on your body, you’re essentially signaling your own lunacy. Or, more likely, idiocy. There’s a subtle difference there. |
 Number 2: ALL of the Golden Girls
Bea Arthur? Check. Betty White? Check. Rue McClanahan? Check. What about Estelle Getty? Check. They’re all there in all their wrinkly glory! This is when TV tattoos get good. Chachi was just about acceptable, but this Golden Girls tat takes us all by surprise by being one of the most beautiful self-mutilations we’ve EVER SEEN! Glory be – tis a thing of great beauty. And power. STAY GOLD. |
Tattoo Mailbag: 38 Tech Nerd Tattoos
 The recent tech and tattoo crazes have played off one another to create a crazy cycle of ridiculous ink. Just when you thought nerds couldn’t get any nerdier, another one comes out of the woodwork (motherboard?) to one-up (that’s a Mario reference) the last one. Here are 38 really nerdy tech tattoos.
Read: 38 Tech Nerd Tattoos – Urlesque |
Tattoo Mailbag: Lewis Ink, Sailor Jerry Turns 100
 What is the relationship between tattooing and creating other works of visual art for these artists? Do they get a different sense of release depending on whether they’re painting or tattooing?BR: The relationship between tattooing and creating other works of visual art for these artists is expression. We do not believe the artists get a different sense of release, but in terms of personalization, they have no boundaries in creating their own art. As with tattooing, they are working in a specific framework of imagination and space on the human body, the medium, which is skin and ink. Read: Lewis Ink, Sailor Jerry Turns 100 – Black Book |
Tattoo Mailbag: Boxer ‘Billy the Billboard’ Pays the Bills With Tattoo Sponsorships
 “I’m an avid collector and appreciator of tattoos, so I tend to run into news that revolves around that culture quite often. That’s how I came to know about Billy Gibby — also known as Billy the Human Billboard — an amateur boxer out of Alaska who is living his dream of being a fighter and paying the bills by selling spots on his body for permanent tattoos featuring the logos of corporate sponsors.
As with everyone else who encounters Billy the Human Billboard for the first time, the thoughts that went through my head were “[vulgar expletive], what is he thinking?” followed by a quick feeling that there’s no way this could be for real, followed by the realization that it had to be real. It’s just too weird not to be.” Read: Boxer ‘Billy the Billboard’ Pays the Bills With Tattoo Sponsorships – AOLNews |
Tattoo Mailbag: The cool sound of tattoos
 “One of the delights of summer in our northern clime is the uncovering of our bodies, to the extent that would make a Taliban blush.
Long-sleeved shirts and heavy coats are ripped from limbs to display, among the exuberant flesh, the year’s crop of fresh tattoos. No doubt many of these tattoos have been around for a while. But each summer, as I patrol the city streets, I am surprised anew at the latest palette of inky designs paraded along all the fashionable places, broiling in the summer’s heat. No longer are tattoos the emblems of a caste of prisoners, gangs, soldiers or sailors. No longer, either, are they just for the rugged or the marginalized. Like male ear-studs, tattoos today have leaped across the gender divide and achieved the demure state of being simply decorative. In other words, intricate Russian mafia designs aside, tattoos are now just plain normal.” Read: The cool sound of tattoos – CBC |
Tattoo Mailbag: Temporary tattoos take on menswear
 Following Jean Paul Gaultier and Chanel ‘tattooing’ their models last fall, Louis Vuitton got into the fake ink game during the recent men’s fashion week.
Designer Marc Jacobs reportedly asked his personal tattooist, the artist Scott Campbell, to come up with spray-ons inspired by the iconic LV monogram, which were worn across models’ necklines, much like ‘tattooed-on’ scarves. |
Tattoo Mailbag: Brands Seek Tattoo Skinnovation
“This could be the Age of the Tattoo. Tattoo parlors seem more prevalent than pizza joints. Everybody under 30 seems to sport at least one, if not several, tattoos.
Body art has become so fashionable these days that it’s not only a mainstay of labels such as Ed Hardy and Lucky Brand Jeans, some fans have gone so far as to get inked with designer logos. Now, fashion’s returning the favor.
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But in fashion, it’s still relatively rare to see luxury brands use tattoo art for inspiration. It helps when the fashion designer is a fan of tattoos, as is the case for Louis Vuitton’s Marc Jacobs.
Scott Campbell, the personal tattoo artist for Jacobs, has just designed the brand’s first tattoo-inspired collection.
As part of the collaboration, fans can get inked by Campbell with the Louis Vuitton logo — or they can purchase bags with highly detailed tattoo renderings done in relief by Campbell, whose previous designer tattoo/product collaborations include Earnest Sewn, as seen in the video above.”
Read: Brands Seek Tattoo Skinnovation – Brand Channel
Tattoo Mailbag: Top 10 Craziest Star Wars Tattoos
Funny website we stumbled upon on the most ridiculous Star Wars tattoos. Without spoiling it for you, we picked out a few that we cracked up the most from.
 #10 – Holiday Yoda
Nothing says Star Wars tattoos and Christmas like this incredible rib panel featuring Yoda, dressed to the nines in his holiday best. Dig that Darth Tater! |
 #5 – Sacred Fett
Interestingly enough, some people still view Christmas as a religious holiday. What better way to declare your faith this holiday than with your very own Sacred Boba Fett tattoo! |
See the full list of Top Ten Craziest Star Wars Tattoos.
Tattoo Mailbag: Mum Kim Mordue uses dead son’s ashes in tattoo
“Kim Mordue had 20-year-old Lloyd’s remains mixed with ink that was etched into three designs on her back.
The 50-year-old said: ‘I’ve put Lloyd back where he started – he’s in my body again. As soon as I knew it was possible, I wanted to have the ashes tattoos as a tribute to Lloyd.’
The designs, by her tattoo artist husband, David, show a cabala tree, an angel releasing a butterfly and a poem.
Promising rugby player Lloyd, of Llanelli, south Wales, collapsed during a night out in 2007. An inquest heard he had taken the party drug GHB.”
Read: Mum Kim Mordue uses dead son’s ashes in tattoo - Metro
