Twenty-eight-year-old office worker Lim recently had an eye-line tattoo. “I would rather call it semi-permanent make up. It’s nothing too scary just injecting brown pigment along the eye-line. You don’t even notice it’s a tattoo,” she said.
“Since the treatment, I do not have to spend extra time putting on eye liner in the morning and [...]
Archive | December, 2008
Danger “Beauty Tattoo”
Death-wish Tattoo on Chest
A 79-year-old grandmother in New Zealand has just had her first tattoo – the instruction “Do not resuscitate” emblazoned in capital letters across her chest.
Paula Westoby, who lives in the South Island city of Dunedin, says the message is for the benefit of medical staff in case she is taken ill.
The smartly dressed, middle-class pensioner [...]
Dr. M’s 25 Days of Deep Sea Christmas: #8 Tattoo
Inserting ink into the skin for decorative purposes, identification, a rite of passage, fertility, protection, spirituality, commitment, and status has existed since the Neolithic. The mummified Otzi the Iceman from the 4th or 5th millennium BCE 57 was covered with dots and lines across his lower body. In 2008, the modern tattoo parlor is more [...]
Four basic types of military tattoos
Patriotic images of past wars. Religious icons. Fear of dying. Memories of those lost. No matter their inspiration, many U.S. service men and women use tattoos to remind themselves of their time served.
As reporter Michael May of The Texas Observer noted in “The Skins They Carried” (March 2008), there are four basic [...]
