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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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“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.”

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#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!

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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.”

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