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Company develops Christian temporary tattoos

March 26, 2014

If you want to show off your faith, but don't want to deal with the pain of a real tattoo, Armed with Truth temporary tattoos has a solution for you. The company, which offers 10-pack of Bible-verse temporary...

Tattoos can disguise melanoma

March 25, 2014

While no link between tattoo ink and the development of cancer, experts say that large, dark tattoos can make detection of melanoma hard for doctors, according to an article from Canada's CTV News.  "The...

Tattoos of ancient mummies revealed with CAT scans

March 24, 2014

The tattoos of ancient mummies that have previously gone unnoticed by historians were revealed using CAT scans, according to an article from The Daily Mail.  While the CAT scans revealed physical ailments...

Louisiana legislation reacts to tattoos and welfare

March 24, 2014

Under new Louisiana legislation, tattoos and welfare can no longer be linked, according to an article from The Town Talk newspaper.  The new policy prohibits welfare recipients from purchasing tattoos...

The sweet sound of musical tattoos

March 23, 2014

For music lovers looking to get a tattoo, new technology from Dmitry Morozov offers a way to combine a love of each in a new way with musical tattoos, according to an article from Business Standard.  "The...

New York bill to ban pet tattoos

March 14, 2014

In light of the highly publicized dog-tattooing done by "Mistah Metro," New York assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis reintroduced a bill to qualify tattooing as animal abuse, according to an article in The...

Museum hosts exhibit of Japanese tattoos

March 14, 2014

In Little Tokyo, a hub for American-Japanese culture, the Japanese American National Museum has opened an exhibit featuring the historical role of tattoos in Japanese society. The exhibit features live...

Teacher’s frustrated by tattoo dress code

March 13, 2014

Dress codes in public schools are not uncommon. However, school teachers in West Virginia have become frustrated at their district's revised dress code that restrict tattoos, facial piercings, dress and...

Correct punctuation preventing suicide

March 12, 2014

What originally started as a discussion on Facebook and Tumblr spread to tattoo parlors across the country. The idea of using a semi-colon as an alternative to a period in the suicide discussion to symbolize...

Tattoo shop reacts to restrictive army rules

March 10, 2014

The topic of new tattoo regulation is not new to this blog. We've covered it a few months back when it was first purposed that soldiers would have stricter policy to go up against when it came to body...

Brooklyn tattoo artists inks dog

Brooklyn tattoo artists inks dog

March 7, 2014

While his dog was under anesthesia after a spleen surgery, Brooklyn based tattoo artist known only as Mistah Metro tattooed a heart with the words Alex and Mel in ribbon across his dog's shoulder. The...

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