Tattoos are how my children’s generation expresses its individuality, which is why they all have one.
I have nothing against tattoos: They’ve been used for centuries to identify which sailors on a particular ship got drunk the night before. But at least those sailors, upon awakening and seeing the name Sheila inked into their shoulders, have [...]
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Tattoo：A Whole New Language
Danger “Beauty Tattoo”
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 [...]
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 [...]
