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Lettering tattoo designs are gaining in popularity. You can combine lettering with a design, you can add lettering to a previous design to change it up a little or you can have lettering tattoo designs by themselves. When you add lettering to a design you want to make sure the lettering font style matches the type of tattoo image. Everything should flow together.

Lettering tattoo designs can be just as time consuming to decide on as an image tattoo. You first have to decide what you want to say. Then you can choose to say it in your native language or another, perhaps ancient language like Greek or Chinese characters. Then you have to decide what font type you want to use. And lastly (or perhaps first, depending on you) you decide where on your body you want your lettering tattoo design.

Those are a lot of decisions to make. You have to take your time about all of them because any one can affect your tattoo greatly. A tattoo is for life and you want to be proud of your tattoo forever. Take your time and make one choice at a time. Don't be afraid to change your mind and start over. You want a tattoo that you are 200% sure that it's right for you.

I think the most important decision is what do you want your lettering tattoo designs to say. Since a tattoo is personal, this is your chance to speak to the world. If you choose a saying, it should be something that would be a lifelong commitment. If you choose a name, make sure it's a name that you will still want 20 years from now. One of the biggest sources of tattoo regret is a name of a past love. Unfortunately tattoos last longer than most relationships.

If you go to a good online tattoo gallery you can have everything you need in one place to make all your choices. You can see different lettering styles, get information on translations and see if you want to add an image to your design. One note about lettering tattoo designs in a foreign language, check with several different sources to make sure your translation says what you want it to say.

There is nothing more horrifying than to walk around with an incorrect lettering tattoo

When looking for a good leg tattoo design, there are two points you need to realize. Actually, they are more like tips, and I will share them with you. There are just too many websites with nothing but generic, cookie cutter designs out there and people are not finding the truly superb artwork. You might want to remember these tips when looking for the leg tattoo design you really want.

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Tip 1 - Always, always take your time when looking for tattoos on the internet. I have seen to many people and read too many horror stories about people getting tattooed with artwork that they end up hating. There are two main reason this happens and could happen to you when looking for a leg tattoo design.

Reason number one is because people are making rushed decisions. This is never a good idea when looking for tattoos, simply because this excitement quickly wears off, but by that time, many people have already ran to the parlor to get tattooed with that piece of art. It is these impulse decisions that come back to haunt many people.

Reason number two is because people want to get tattooed with designs that are "in" or "cool". They find tattoos (in your case it might be a leg tattoo design) that other men and women will think is cool and run to get it inked. They don't take into consideration what they truly want and instead think only about what other people might think about it. In the long run, you are always better off getting a leg tattoo design that "you" truly like and don't let outside influences alter your judgment.

Tip 2 - You are probably looking for a leg tattoo design the wrong way. You are probably saying to yourself, "What does that mean?" Well, it means that the way you are searching for tattoos is probably not leading you to places that have fresh, quality artwork. 95% of people will strictly use search engines, which is most likely the path you are taking also.

If you use them to locate a good leg tattoo design, you will instead get a list of low end galleries and all of these places usually have generic, cookie cutter tattoos. Most people don't even realize this and instead take it for what it is. They think this is all they have to choose form and end up picking one of those generic designs, because all galleries are going to have the same kind of artwork. Not all galleries are stuffed with only generic designs. It's just that this is all search engines show you.

What you need is a better way to find the good leg tattoo design you want. What's the best way to accomplish this? By using internet forums. It's the easiest, most reliable way to find all of the truly great galleries you've been failing to get a hold of. The larger forums are always going to be filled with past topics on the subject of tattoos. To find a good leg tattoo design, simply skim through some of these topics and you will be able to find link after link to some of the better galleries other people have uncovered. It's a fantastic way to work your way to the superb artwork search engines always fail to show you. It's as simple as that

Dragons were said to represent the Four Elements, hence the stories and myths of dragons who had dominion over Air, Water, Earth and Fire.
The Dragon tattoo design symbolizes nobility, magic, the power of transformation and imagination, perseverance, loyalty, power & the ability to transcend the ordinary.
For those who conquer dragons, the dragon represents courage, bravery, duty, honour & the
great quest.

Cross Symbolic Tattoos

Tattoos are becoming a craze among the youngsters nowadays. Tattoos might be permanent tattoos made by piercing and ingraining a non-removable dye or by raising scars or temporary tattoos made out of the herb called henna. The word tattoo is the derivative of the Tahitian term Tauta which means to mark. Cross tattoos are among the different types of tattoos.

Cross tattoos indicate different meanings. Even though these tattoos symbolizes the religion of Christianity, it is widely been used for several reasons.

Many Catholics and Christians use this tattoos in the belief that using cross tattoos would be the perfect way to express their faith in their religion. Catholic and Christian tattoo designs normally have the Latin cross, which has four spokes; with three spokes of equal length facing each other, and one long spoke pointing down. Some Catholic Christian crosses have a symbol representing the crucified Jesus Christ.

The Celtic tattoo is the combination of symbols like a circle and a Latin cross. The circle exists in the center, where the two lines in the Latin cross meet each other. The circle in the Celtic tattoos is refers the life circle view that life and death are a never-ending and cyclical process.
The Tattoos of Maltese has a cross shape like four v-shaped arms having the end facing inside and the eight corner points indicate honesty, glory, faithfulness, courageousness, helpfulness, piousness, disdain of death and respect for the church.

Gothic tattoos are heavily adorned and these tattoos normally have an iron texture. These crosses are normally combines with imaginary like barbed wire and daggers. These tattoos are used to express the anger and pain.

Iron cross tattoos are connected with German military. The symbol has four equal spikes that burn out at each end and was first used by the German military in the year 1870. In later years the symbol of iron cross was used as a decoration by the military during the times of wars.

Cross tattoos are also combines with the designs of other elements, which add personal meaning. Some images used in combination with theses tattoos are flowers, butterflies, stripes and stars, texts, verses from Bible, etc.

Memorial cross tattoos are becoming popular nowadays and these tattoos are used as a remembrance of some person who has left the world. This type of cross tattoos has a stone texture combined with the name and date of death of the person in remembrance of whom the tattoo is being used.

Before You Buy Temporary Tattoo Kits

Kids of all ages love temporary tattoos and play body art. With its ever-increasing popularity, more and more kits and home studios are popping up on store shelves. But not all kits are appropriate for all ages, both genders or all kinds of children. Here's a quick look at some of the fun activity sets currently available.

Stick-On Temporary Tattoo Kits

These are the most widely available kind of temporary tattoo. You place them against the skin, soak the back of the paper with water and wa-la! Instant tattoo and happy kid. But not all of them live up to their expectations.

Henna/Mehndi Kits

Henna is recommended for older kids, particularly girls. Henna art allows a lot more creativity on the part of the child-artist, and a little bit goes a long way. Don't be fooled by claims of "colored" henna - it all stains the skin one color - orange-brown. Fresh henna is vital for good results, so it's important you purchase a product that hasn't been sitting on a shelf too long.

Body Paint, Pencils & Crayons

This can be great fun for kids of all ages (including both boys and girls), but tend to be a bit on the messy side. They allow for great artistic creativity, and most of them just wash off with soap and water. These items usually have to be replaced more quickly as they can break, dry out or run out.

Stick-on Body Gems, Jewels & Glitter

These can look pretty, but they sure lack much imagination. They make a nice accesory and most girls love shiny, sparkly things. They also don't make much of any mess, which is a plus. They are supposed to be reusable, but most of them lose their adhesive quality after one use.

Cheryl Cole tattoo collection with huge

Pop star Cheryl Cole is finished with tattoos after having a huge rose design inked onto her back over a painful two-day period.

The Fight For This Love hitmaker stunned fans on the opening night of the Girls Aloud comeback tour in Newcastle on Thursday night when she showed off the massive inking on the small of her back.

The design, two red roses in bloom, was completed after 15 hours in the tattooist's chair over an agonising two days last year, and Cole admits her latest body art will probably be her last.

She tells The Sun, "It was really painful but I think I'm done with tattoos now. It wasn't for any particular reason, I just liked the design. It took 15 hours in total.

"I actually got it five months ago - but it's somewhere on my body you wouldn't expect people to see it very often. It was done by this amazing artist called Nikko Hurtado who basically travels round the world going to conventions."

The star boasts a number of tattoos, including a Polynesian tribal symbol on her hand and barbed wire around her thigh.

We had the pleasure to be approached by Eva. A mother from Norway who has traveled the world showing off her body suit masterfully done with over 300 hours of work in the chair. She then was approached by Guinness World Records and was recognized as the most tattooed woman in the world. We were lucky that she wanted to share her story with everyone, and now we bring it to you. Read on to find out more about her life!

Q: Hello Eva, Give us your basic information:

A: My name is Eva Svindland, I am 45 years old,born and raised in Norway,in a little town named Egersund on the west coast.

Q: At what age did you discover tattoos? Can you tell us a little about that

A: My father was an old sailor. So when I was just a litle girl,3-4 years old, I remember him coming home from the sea showing me his newest tattoo from each time I saw him until the next time he had to leave us again. He had the typical old school-tattoos. A heart with a knife through and a snake twisted around it. A banner with the name of my mother in it and stuff like that.They were really old school.Several of them he got done in Singapore.

Q: Which one was your first tattoo? Does it have a story behind it?

A: My first tattoo was a blue rose I did at Henky Penky Studio in Amsterdam. I actually looked for that rose for 7 years before I found it. It was from a movie with Peter Strauss in it

Q: In which point did you decide to cover your body in this amazing art? How did you arrive to this decision?

A: I have always been very fascinated about the black& grey bodysuits, in japanese style.I am not so happy about color. I searched the internet for some years to find an artist which I liked the work of and thought which one suited me best.

I found Noi Siamese 3 and wanted him to do a hanya on me. And when he met me and saw that I was an adult woman,not a teenager he asked me if i would be his model.We decided to go for half bodysuit.We started it in October 2008 and was finished so I could travel to Manchester in March 09, to show off his work for the first time. ( I remember winning the class over 42 other copetitions at that convention).

I traveled and competed on several conventions in 2009 with only half bodysuit.And then we took a break and started to build on the hole bodysuit in the end of September 2010,and started to compete again with full bodysuit in march 2012,in Rotterdam. Then I traveled around in Europe to show off his work on some conventions.And in June summer of 2012 I went to Iron ‘n Ink-festival, in Long Beach, to show his work. That was kind of an adventure for me.On Friday I won 1st place in Best Japanese.Saturday I didn’t go to the boat,Queen Mary, because there was no class for me to compete in.But when I arrived on Sunday, several people come asking for me and told me to hurry up.Because I should be on stage in 20 minutes to compete in a class called Best over All, female. I won that class too. And when the people told me that I should compete in a class called Best of Show I told them to stop messing with me,because that is the class I compete in with my cats when I take them to cat show,haha.

But there was a class called that,so I had to go up on stage again, and I won that class too, wow.I beat the model of Hiroyosho the 3. with one point.

When it all was over a delegation with strangers came over to me and started to talk to me about my tattoo. I didn’t know any of them so I told them that I am not an object.First of all I am a mother and a housewife,who happenes to have a big tattoo. One of the men looked at me and said:”I see you, and I can totally respect that”. But we are talking about a world record here.I asked what he meant and told him Isobel Varley is the woman with the world record. I even told him that she lives in england and she has a lot more ink than me. Then he said: “I’m talking about the real stuff,the black&grey”. That man turned out to be Jack Rudy

They had noticed me on Friday and brought in people who were veterans in the game.So when I was on stage on Sunday, I noticed it was not the ordinary young generation who dominated the audience.There were a lot of “grown up” men in the audience who were looking at me. And from then on I was allowed to say I am the most tattooed woman in the world ,in black & grey

Q: Has your ink impacted you in any way on your social life? Do you feel like your life has changed after your work?

A: Of course the tattoo has had a big impact on my life. I got more focused on my body,I started training and lost 17 kilos . I didn’t want to look like an old fat woman when I was naked on stage And I also got more and better self esteem from it.The first time I had to go on stage in just a little string was horrible. Now I can do it without hesitating at all. I know I have beautiful art on my body and I am very proud to show it off Also, I know the artists never judge my body or me.They are professional and only look at the artwork.

When he was a kid, he had a deep love for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and he said he wanted to live in the sewers like them. Growing up, he found an amazing attraction for zombies. He’s a great fan of George A. Romero’s Living Dead movies, and he decided one day to look like a zombie.

Rick reached out to Canadian tattoo artist Frank Lewis when he was 21 years old, where they started working on Rick’s ideas together to bring out exactly what he wanted on his tattoos. He started by getting his hands tattooed with the outlines of bones, and after a rough time with his mother about his future and after she saw how committed he was in bringing outside what he wanted, she fully supported him during a transformation that has lasted 6 years and is still going.

In 2009 he played a background role in Circ du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, and he started gaining notoriety thanks to a Facebook page created in 2010,which discussed his taste for tattoos. This page went on to have over 1.5 million fans and one of those days Nicola Formichetti, Lady Gaga’s fashion director, stumbled upon his page, and he got in contact with Rick. In January 2011, Rico headlined Thierry Mugler’s Fall/Winter fashion catalog,leaving an incredible impression of everyone.

Rico’s pursuit of modifying his body to look like what he loves the most only shows a strong and committed personality that doesn’t pay attention to what anyone else does or says. He’s a perfect example of not judging a book by its cover, specially after we saw a video of him doing anti-bullying talks at schools.

Psychedelic Yin-Yang Tattooes

A few days ago I posted about the third “double canvas tattoo” that Marc (Little Swastika) had completed. He has quite a few of these in progress he tells me there are four on the go at present but this one is particularly unusual because the mirroring only works in this very peculiar configuration, a sort of psychedelic bodmod yin-yang.

Extreme Tattoo

It’s not unusual for some people to get a slight “halo” of color around their tattoos, as the ink moves out via capilliary action and permeates and stains subcutateous tissue. Sometimes this is because of a mistake make by the artist (for example, tattooing too deep), but because anatomy is so variable from person to person, even the best artists have it happen at times. Typically this halo extends not much more than 1/4″ and is subtle enough that most people won’t even notice it, but a friend just sent me this example which is one of the most extreme examples of tattoo ink bleeding out into surrounding tissue that I’ve seen to date.

In the pictures below, the left one (which also shows a rash that developed after the tattoo, which may or may not be related — I suspect not — and was treated successfully with Sibicort, a Chlorhexidine/Hydrocortisone cream) is two weeks after the tattoo was done, and the right one was taken four months afterward, showing what looks almost like a bruise all the way around the arm. Over a year and a half later and the discoloration still looks the same. The woman with the tattoo has very light, thin skin which is generally sensitive and prone to allergic responses. The ink that was used is the same ink the tattooist normally uses and hasn’t caused problems for other clients as far as anyone knows.

These pictures shows the extremes to which ink is capable of spreading. It should be noted that because of the likely depth and diffuse nature of the discolouration, it is unlikely that this can be treated short of simply tattooing over all affected skin. If any professionals have comments or feedback on this — theories on what caused it or how to minimize it, or whether this is just an unavoidable risk in a certain percentage of clients — I’d love to hear it.

Celebrities have Tattoos

Tattoos are slowly being more accepted in society thanks to celebrities. Thanks to the increase of movies, T.V shows, books and magazines that cover the tattoo culture and the industry, tattoos are being embraced with more naturalism instead of the taboo that it once was. But how did celebrities get to know the world of tattoos? How was it that famed and followed people from around the world got their bodies decorated by ink?

The tattoo culture had a massive boom in the first 10 years of this new century as shows such as Miami Ink, L.A Ink and Inked started this trend, and slowly people started accepting tattoos as a normal part of life.

But they say that the man responsible for the crazed tattoo trend among celebrities started because of a man called Lyle Tuttle. To those of you who don’t know him, Lyle Tuttle is a tattoo artist born and raised in California. Currently 81 years old, he retired from the world of tattooing in the year 1990, but during his active years (from 1945 to 1990), he tattooed a big number of celebrities, and the one who started it all: Janis Joplin.

The acceptance of tattoos as a form of art started by the work of Lyle Tuttle on Janis Joplin. He did a small wristlet and a heart close to her breast, and at this moment celebrities started to get hooked with tattoos. Lyle went on and tattooed other famous celebrities, such as Cher, Jane Fonda, and Paul Stanley, just to name a few.

The adoption of tattoos among celebrities helped put tattoos into the spotlight: T.V Shows, clothing lines, books, magazines, and many other publications started to shift into the tattoo world and its culture, giving celebrities a chance to express their views and thoughts on tattoos, and also sharing their pieces with their audience.

Today, tattoos are not only limited to recording artists, musicians and rappers. Actors and actresses everywhere have sat down and spent hours of work on their own pieces. Angelina Jolie was one of the first women to show off her ink in red carpet events, and slowly more and more followed.

Tattoo fans and enthusiasts have decorated their bodies with incredible pieces of art, some even of their own idols, and as every day more and more people are getting tattooed, hopefully one day all the discrimination and laws and rules against them in work places and companies will stop, as they’re a form of art and an expression of what we love and cherish.

Tattooed Teen Boys

There’s debate-inviting interview up on the 2KBT clothing blog that I have quite mixed feelings about an interview with a 15-year old covered in tattoos. Tattoos that unlike those you’ll find on most 15 year olds, are at least slightly above scratcher level, although still far from the quality level I’d wish on anyone I was going to ask how he affords this level of tattooing, but I doubt they were costly. I admit I started getting tattooed about that same age, but it’s hard to compare the experience directly since in the 80s it was a different world, one that began with me and a hand-poked needle and was followed by being tattooed out of his apartment by an artistically-minded friend who’d just gotten out of jail and ordered himself a Huck Spaulding kit. As you can imagine, those tattoos have almost all been covered up. Even if I had access to better quality tattooists, I’m not sure that at fifteen I had enough perspective on my life to choose tattoos that I’d be happy with today. Very few of us have the same tastes at fifteen as at thirty or forty. Of course, I wasn’t a whole lot more mature at 18 or 21 either… I don’t think it was until I was maybe 23 that I personally had the maturity to choose appropriate tattoos for myself and my life — which is part of the reason I waited until I was thirty to do my face tattoo. For some people that age is higher and for others it’s lower… But I doubt for many people it’s as low as 15.

Still, I dislike ageism as much as I dislike all forms of prejudice — I don’t like the idea of strangers in some government office telling me or anyone how old they have to be to be able to manage their life. That kind of misguided protectionism has often resulted in kids who are handed responsibility at 18 and rush into it, just as incapable of handling it as they would have been at 15, but with a whole lot more self-righteousness. Well, as I’ve said elsewhere, people get the tattoos they deserve. All we can do is continue publishing information on what good tattoos should look like and how to find a good artist — that information is widely available and any kid with basic internet access and a modicum of self-respect is perfectly capable of doing the research these days… All that said, if I was a tattoo artist, I don’t think I would be ethically comfortable tattooing someone at fifteen that I didn’t know extremely, extremely well. A sleeve to the wrist is starting to cut off some options in life — I wonder what would happen if the kid decided he wanted his face or his neck tattooed? It’s not a big step in today’s world for a kid to think that might be a cool thing to do. Even without worrying about tattoo-bigotry, it’s a very big load to put on someone — if their tastes change, a sleeve and a chest is a lot to steal from them.

I don’t think there’s any easy or definitive answer here — I don’t think there’s a universal age where someone is mature enough for tattoos, and personally, the less the government sticks its nose into body modification the better. Responsible artists, a community that strives to educate newcomers, and a general culture of self-respect seems like the right way to tackle this issue.

The tattoos by the way were done by Mike Casale, I believe of Unity Tattoo in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. I have no idea what their local laws are or if this interview will come back to bite them in the ass — they seem to be part of that grimey lower-echelon of tattoo shops that prey on less discerning customers, at best a stepping stone for learning artists, but unlikely a home to artists whose work is likely to get much press beyond this sort of shocked “can you believe this crap” coverage…

Click the photos to jump to the interview.

Tattoo Job Offer

I got a message from Mike Hill at Broad Street Studio (broadstreetstudio.co.uk) in Bath, Somerset, UK telling me that they’re looking for a new tattoo artist at their studio and asking me whether I’d be willing to post a job ad for him… I told him I couldn’t really do that, but if he could find something interesting for me to post, well, as they say, “one hand washes the other”… So he got me some pictures of a recent scar he did on Tam Smith. Unlike most skin removal scars over tattoos, this is over a Japanese sleeve, rather than over blackwork, and the negative-space it creates interacts with the tattoo rather than standing solo. At first I’d assumed this was a tattoo on a fishing enthusiast, but it’s actually a flesh hook as Tam is part of the suspension community.

If you’re a tattoo artist looking for work (or perhaps even a long-term working vacation inbeautiful Bath), get in touch with Mike on Faceobook, or via their shop website. To give you an idea of the sort of shop you’d be stepping into, here’s some work done by Fil, another one of the tattooists that call Broad Street Studio home — that’s Mike’s head top-right (you may recognize it, because Rob featured it back in 2010). Click for a giant look.

extreme face tattoes and piercings

This has to be one of the largest examples of [voluntary] skin removal on a face to date, at least in a single session. It was done by Iestyn Flye –who is normally based at London’sDivine Canvas, but tours extensively so visit him on Facebook for more information no matter where you might be — on Marc at Copenhage Body Extremes (bodyextremes.com). The design is based on a Japanese holy hemp leaf pattern. I can’t wait to see this healed, and will definitely post a follow-up when I can (although if you look at the previous scar that runs across the nose, you can get a good idea of what to expect) — I expect the sort of visage that looks like Freddy Krueger from a distance, and then transforms from horrific to beautiful as you get closer. Click for a larger look.

unique man Tattoo

Ferank Manseed, who has now been doing hand-poked tattoos for a decade (“I don’t play with that modern machine nonsense!”) just finished the second session on this amazing swastika/asanoha scalp piece, which now has eleven hours of hand poking in it. I like the 3D effect that makes it look like the design is cut right into the head, kind of a dotwork trompe l’oeil. As you may have guessed Ferank is pure hand-poked all the way, only having used a machine a few times (and that was a long time ago). He says, “the freedom of working by hand has allowed me to tattoo and travel and connect with other handwork tattooists, who are still rare — I like this…”

Like most hand tattooists, Ferank is largely self-taught, doing much of his learning by tattooing his own skin. I asked him what he uses for tools and while he points out that he“can make a tattoo with anything sharp” he usually uses pre-made needles (the same sort that would be put in a machine) strapped to a chopstick. When the tattoo is completed, he removes the needles from the bamboo chopstick, marks the date on it, blesses it with a swastika and an aum and gives it to the client as a souvenir of the experience.

Ferank is based at Northside Private Rooms (one of the rare studios that contains a dedicated hand area) in Newcastle Upone Tyne in England, and you can email him atmudraink@hotmail.com or visit him on Facebook.

Person Evolution Tattoo

Sorry it’s been a while since I posted one of these (click here for the full series) — as always, this series seeks to show people with significant facial modifications, with photos showing where they started and how they got to where they are now. If you’d like to be in a future series, please get in touch with me — I’d like to keep this series going! In any case, here are today’s personal evolutions (click to zoom in):

The Evolution of Iestyn Flye

The Evolution of Jason Sand

The Evolution of Jester Mayhone

The Evolution of Revina Lower

The Evolution of Victor Peralta

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