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It's 1945, and you want a tattoo. You drive to the part of town your mom warned you about, past scruffy bars and burlesque shows, and arrive at a tiny shop offering maybe 200 designs in three or four colors.
ACWORTH, Ga. — A Cobb County woman bonded out of jail on Wednesday after being arrested for taking her 10-year-old son to get a tattoo.
Anyone who watches sports, movies or even A&E knows that tattoos have gone mainstream. Studies have shown that as many as one in every 2.5 adults under 40 has one, so if you don't, someone in a nearby cubicle probably does.
It was noon Saturday at the second annual D.C. Tattoo Expo, and the telltale “bzzz” of tattoo machines marked the unofficial start of the festivities. Nicole Backlund of Cookstown, N.J., traveled to the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington County for the event.
How did a young, black-metal fan with stretched ear lobes and a fascination with corpse-simulating face paint score the prestigious “Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity” at UCSD? Dr.
I recently received an angry voicemail from a reader upset about our Lifestyles feature on people with pierced, stretched earlobes. "I want to complain about your lifestyles issue today on body piercing, body art, body whatever," the woman said.
Amy Jamieson sat in a chair at Sacred Images Tattoo and Piercing while Mike Araya prepped her ears, cleaning and measuring them to find the perfect spot for her new plugs. Jamieson’s ears were already pierced.
Have you ever thought of getting a tattoo or body piercing? In the last decade tattooing or “getting inked” has gained popularity. The Pew Research Center reports that 40 percent of people belonging to the 26-40 age group flaunt at least one tattoo.
The Safe Body Art Act marks the single greatest legal change in how tattoos are inked and skin pierced Imperial Beach-based tattoo artist Mike Martin travelled to Sacramento in 2010 to ask Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign the Safe Body Art Act.
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