No tattoo aficionado can avoid knowing of Kat Von D. She is LA’s best known female tattoo artist and persona. She has been instrumental in the shift in attitude towards women and tattoos. In fact, I credit her with the huge societal ground shift which has seen professional women choose to have tattoos to adorn [...]

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Ever heard of Rescue Ink? Well, you should have (no, neither had we) because they are the epitome of inspirational and just plain fantastic human beings. I’ll tell you why… Rescue Ink is a group of people – well, men, for the most part -  almost all heavily tattooed, who work out of Long Island, [...]

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Davina McCall was born in 1967 in London. The world was never going to be the same. The wild child product of a messily broken marriage, she suffered anorexia and went a bit off the rails in her twenties, which was to be expected. However, during those days of drug induced hazes, she still managed [...]

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The last weekend of September 2009 was a memorable one for East London. There were hundreds of tattoo and body artists from all over the globe attending and performing their trade from traditional Nordic facial tattoos applied with a chisel and hammer to heart-stopping full body designs ranging from Eastern mystic creatures to science fiction [...]

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Wim Delvoye is a Belgian conceptual artist known for hi rather unconventional endeavours. Born in 1965, he is a Dutchman and lives in Ghent. Among the weirdest of his projects is Wim Delvoye’s Art Farm in China. There, he has been tattooing pigs since the 1990s. Why China? Well, my guess would be that it [...]

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Leona Lewis has what?! Yes, you heard me right. Squeaky clean Leona has gone and got her first tattoo. Imagine that! Ms Lewis has been East London’s darling ever since she won the X Factor program all those years ago. Simon Cowell was so impressed with her performance that he is rumoured to have called [...]

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Brad’s in, Billy Bob’s way out. What’s a girl to do when the last love of your life is tattood on your arm, but you’ve traded up, moved on, or just gotten bored? Laser surgery may just be the answer you’ve been looking for. It worked for Angie!

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Most of us wanted them at one point, their unique designs, the meaning behind each artistic detail, and words that have meaning attracts all kind of people. Usually we all have different perspectives on them and many people get tattoos or want tattoos for different reasons. Among the most common two are, tattoos are more [...]

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Down on his luck and with debts piling up, a tattoo artist from the German town of Coesfeld, racked his brain for a creative money-making scheme. Unfortunately, Thomas Tanriverdi’s plan to sell ad space on his bald scalp went to his head.

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Peaches Geldof shocked holidaymakers on a Mexican beach yesterday, revealing a body covered in no less than 20 tattoos. Resembling a schoolgirl’s Biro doodles, Peaches’ rather more permanent body art included a large string of daisies from just below her bust to mid-thigh.

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