Ever seen he started out by making his own tattoo gun from Scalextric parts and guitar strings, tattooist Dan Gold, 35, has always approached the craft in his own way. Known for his individual, graffiti-style work, Dan still loves his vocation. I was a graffiti artist when I was about 15. Back then, in the [...]

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Scarification is a term that is used to describe the act of scarifying. Scarifying involves scratching, etching, or some sort of superficial cutting or incision as a form of perminant body modification, akin to tattooing. Scarification has been around for hundreds of years, dating back to the slave trade, but is becoming increasingly popular in [...]

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We are all well aware of the risks involved with tattooing. As a result selecting a safe tattoo studio is very important, and one mustn’t overlook the details of what that entails. Risk of infection, contracting a disease, and perminant skin damage are all possible thanks to a poor tattoo artist or an unsanitary parlour. [...]

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Although most people consider tattoos to be permanent, it is possible to remove them through medical applications. These procedures, although often considerably more expensive and painful than application, can in many cases completely remove the tattoo. Vibrant colors are more difficult to fully eliminate, but it is possible. Tattoo removal is typically performed by use [...]

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We are all well aware of the fact that there are risks associated with tattoos. Despite the fact that these dangers have, over the course of the development and refinement of tattooing, been reduced the precautions are fallible, as we well know. The first and most prominent risk involved in getting a tattoo is the [...]

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Tattooing, as a practice, has been around for over five thousand years. Its origins date back to the Neolithic period. From Eurasian mummies and frozen bodies all the way through the modern world in nearly every region, tattooing has served myriad purposes and has come in just as many forms. The first evidence, extracted from [...]

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Treat your tattoo like a wound, you must take care of it! It is important you spend time daily ensuring it is healing correctly or you could damage it permanently. The following are instructions given to me when I went for my very first tattoo. 1. Wash your tattoo 2-4 times per day in warm [...]

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For as long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated by unusual and unique art, tattoo’s being one of them. However, for even longer I’ve had a phobia…needles. After moving out of home aged 19, the idea of having a tattoo played on my mind a lot. Living above a tattoo parlour and watching Miami [...]

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OffBeatInk.com is a exciting new website designed to provide the most up-to-date information on tattooing as well as fresh, creative drawings and designs. Slowly but surely, OffBeatInk.com is becoming a forefront web portal aimed at tattooists worldwide. Tattoo Articles, Tattoo Interviews and Tattoo Design Ideas are being added weekly, if not daily! Best of all, [...]

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