http://offbeatink.com Tattoo Design Ideas by OffBeatInk.com Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:39:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A lot can be said with a limited amount of colors in a tattoo.  Many people choose to have what they call blackwork tattoos where the entire tattoo uses only one color.  The color black that is used for these blackwork tattoos is sometimes also used mainly for the outline ... http://offbeatink.com/general/simple-black-blackwork-tattoos/ The Red Hot Chili Peppers are just one of many bands on the market today that have multiple tattoos between the members.  Supposedly bass player Flea has the most tattoos within the band but that remains up for debate. Some have to wonder why band members always seem to be so ... http://offbeatink.com/celebrities/red-hot-tattoos/ Having a love for comic books can sometimes label you as a nerd.  Having a love for tattoos can sometimes label you as a rebel or a toughguy.  So what happens if you get tattoos with comic book characters on them?  Do they cancel each other out and you just ... http://offbeatink.com/general/just-your-friendly-neighborhood-arm-crawler/ Even Sylvester Stallone, star of the many Rocky series of movies, enjoys the occasional tattoo.  In this particular picture, he is showing off a portrait style tattoo with the image of his wife.  Getting a portrait tattoo done is risky business.  If you have seen some of the other portrait ... http://offbeatink.com/celebrities/its-not-adrienne-but-it-will-do/ With so many people getting tattoos these days, walking into a tattoo parlor and picking a tat design off the wall for your newest ink work can lead to you having the same tattoo as someone else on the planet.  Tattoos are somewhat mainstream now which means, if you go ... http://offbeatink.com/bizarre/homie/ Yea, bad tattoos are all over the planet.  There are tattoos that should not even be mentioned in public, let alone placed in a blog for all the world to see and be disgusted by.  This guy, Mr Cool Ice, has some pretty interesting tattoos.  Some people would say they’re ... http://offbeatink.com/bizarre/ice-cold/ Arm band tattoos have been around for probably centuries.  The first arm band tattoos were possibly the tattoos of the Polynesian islanders, tattoos which were used to display a message that told what tribe a person was from.  Back then, the arm band tattoos were usually tribal in nature with ... http://offbeatink.com/general/and-the-band-played-on/ Don’t get me wrong, I’m just as patriotic as the next guy.  I’m all about fighting for our country and standing up for what we believe in and grieving for the loss of so many people on 9-11.  But, that tattoo is over the top.  A painting like that would ... http://offbeatink.com/bizarre/twin-towers-tattoo/ Too bad Tom Cruise didn’t think about this back in the 80’s when he was running around in the movie Risky Business, sporting a pair of Ray Ban’s and smoking cigarettes.  This guy, Matthew, had glasses, or should I say glasses frames, tattooed on his face.  Yea. His facebook has quite ... http://offbeatink.com/bizarre/nice-glasses/ Some of the most fascinating and intricate tattoos in the world belong to what the Japanese call the Yakuza, a very large Japanese crime syndicate. The process of getting the tattoos, that sometimes cover their entire body, has become somewhat of a ritual, displaying the person’s feelings towards fitting ... http://offbeatink.com/general/yakuza/