The “finger tattoos” and their meaning
Let’s start with stating the fact, that the finger tattoos are totally a thing now. Valentine’s Day often sees couples speaking of love and the everlasting commitment. Some of those lovebirds have decided (for better or worse) that there is no way more awesome…
Are tattoos good for your health?
Can multiple tattoos improve your overall state of the immune system? Scientists who’ve lately done a thorough research at the University of Alabama have answered this question and eventually published an interesting take on their study. They titled it…
Symbolic tattoos found on ancient Egyptian mummy
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…
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…
What are the Henna Tattoos
Well, while the world of “traditional”, black (or colorful) ink tattoos is big enough as it is, with multiple aesthetic and other subcategories in it, there’s also one other standalone theme in the world of branding yourself with an image (or a text). Yeah, our friends who’ve been to India, we’re talking about Indian henna kinds of tattoos. The thing is that this is indeed a kind of a tattoo and not fully a traditional type of it, especially considering the fact that it can be removed…