Celtic tattoos & traditions

The archaeologists just gotten some exciting news on the ancient history of tattooing. Though it is a well-known fact that the old cultures did it for ornament and beauty, the mummified body of an Egyptian woman who was discovered at a site on the west bank of the Nile River known as Deir el-Medina (a village dating to between 1550 B.C. and 1080 B.C.) has just proven it again. The mummy was examined and found to have symbolic tattoos. As reported in Live Science, Stanford…

Mondial du tatouage 2016 – worldwide tattoo convention in Paris

The worldwide summit of the Mondial du Tatouage, held this year in Paris attracted tattoo artists and enthusiasts from across the globe. With its doors opened at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris, this time, it hosted more than 1200 delegates. Our friend James attended the convention and he decided to share the photos he took, as well as tell us more about his overall experiences in this guest post… See more of James’s photos on the…

Fun Facts About Tattoos You Didn’t Know!

Many avid tattoo fans and even some tattoo masters never know every single fact or bit of information about the world of tattoos. For example, did you know why do color tattoos hurt more than black tattoos? Why might two similar sized tattoos cost different amounts? The awesome MasterPieceTattoos are back with all the answers to your questions!

Local Tattoo Salons Conference

Many avid tattoo fans and even some tattoo masters never know every single fact or bit of information about the world of tattoos. For example, did you know why do color tattoos hurt more than black tattoos? Why might two similar sized tattoos cost different amounts? The awesome MasterPieceTattoos are back with all the answers to your questions!

When Tattos Became Legal in the US?

While it might seem these days that the world of tattoos is what America has always been about, this is just not so true, historically-wise. This all means that the practice of tattoo salons being persecuted and banned on either state or federal level has continued well into the 1960s and some early 1970s. But let’s just try to understand which exact factors influenced the situation so much as to completely reverse the states’ position on the ink art? Well, all of this started in a…

Tramps Stamps And Pregnancy

While some might have thought that such two topics as pregnancy and tattoos are not to collide ever, you’re wrong. Besides the obvious fact that women who get tattoos very often become pregnant sometime afterward or that sometimes some very edgy pregnant women get tattoos, there’s also a purely medical twist to the theme. The thing is, that when a woman in labor is offered an option of Epidural painkiller, then some kind of a harmful nasty side effect involving ink may resurface and…