A tattoo artist from Halland in western Sweden is facing criminal charges after signing his own name on a woman’s stomach. The tattooist is to appear in court on charges of causing wilful bodily harm, Hallands Nyheter reports.

The woman had first come to him some months previously following a recommendation from a friend. In memory [...]

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On December 6th OffBeatInk.com posted (article here) that Kat Von D needed bodyart enthusiasts to ink as part of her attempt to break the Guinnes Book of World Records for the most people tattooed in a 24hr period.
OffBeatInk.com is pleased to announce the talented artist managed to complete 400 tattoo’s in 24 hours on December [...]

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Scientists say that a small tattoo placed on the heart could help them monitor new treatments, according to researchers at the Ohio State University.

The idea of using stem cells to rebuild tissue damaged by a heart attack is still in development and so is monitoring the progress. Researcher Perianna Kuppusamy thinks that tattooing tiny sensors [...]

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Colleen Venable is obsessed with giraffes (it all started when she lost a giraffe toy as a child, which sets off a 3 year hunt for that particular stuffed animal. Long story short 1,712 giraffes later, she found it!).

As part of her art project The Stalking and Murdering of a Childhood Giraffe Project, Colleen decided [...]

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A teenage girl who had her lover’s nickname tattooed onto her stomach found out months after they split up that it actually said “supermarket“.

Joanne Raine, 19, from Firthmoor in Darlington, discovered the mistake after she walked into a Chinese takeaway to find out what the tattoo symbols really meant.
The tattoo was inked onto Joanne’s skin [...]

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A study said that tattoos is one of the most popular urban lifestyle as 40% of 26-40 year olds have at least one tattoo. And what people concerns when going to make tattoos is the time it takes and the pain during the process.
The best way to make the patient forget the time and the [...]

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A former ticket inspector is facing a bleak start to the new year after he was fired by train bosses for having a tattoo on his neck.

(Former employee Kevin Atkins) 
Kevin Atkins was left stunned when his manager at One railway told him the company was terminating his contract due to the partially visible tattoo of [...]

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A blunder by a tattoo artist left a Geelong AFL fan with a nasty surprise when the writing above the emblem on his arm read “Gay Premiers 2007? instead of “Day Premiers 2007″!

Neville, a lifelong fan wanted a permanent remainder of his side’s premiership triumph so he planned to get himself inked. He wanted the [...]

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Back tattoos are extremely popular amongst women these days, especially ones located near the lower back. A 2006 study in the journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found that nearly one-quarter of Americans ages 18 to 50 have tattoos. Of those, nearly 20 percent of the women have tattoos on their lower backs.

(Lower [...]

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It can be tempting to allow others, especially those that you may trust, to tattoo you. However, the danger associated with allowing yourself to be inked by an unlicensed artist higlights the severity of amateur tattooing.
Between 2004 - 2005, a potentially deadly, drug-resistant type of staph infectionstaph infection was reported among unlicensed tattoo artists [...]

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