http://tattoo.infmom.net For tattooed people, and those who want to be. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:58:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tattoos and other body art are becoming more popular all the time--just look at all the tattoo related showson TV these days. Even the National Geographic has gotten into the act. But the fact that something is popular doesn't necessarily mean that it has widespread acceptance. In what ways ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/commentary/multicolored-challenges/ ....put a sports logo on my arm? There's a TV commercial that's getting a lot of airplay these days, showing sports fans displaying their lovefor their teams in different, mostly creative ways. Painting a car like a team uniform. Wearing a costume representative of the team name. Getting ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/design-inspiration/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game/ Had a lot of things to do the past few days, so the post I was going to put up today, I still have to think some more about. So till I get my act together, here are some links of interest to multicolored folk. No particular order--just ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/in-general/hot-links/ In my series of articles on getting your first tattoo (you can find the index to that series here) I talked about the issues involved in using Other People's Art. (You can read that article here). Besides the practical matter of getting permission to use artwork, there are other issues ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/commentary/art-on-canvas-art-on-skin/ I saw a story on the news last night about a 9-year-old girl in Texas who is learning to tattoo. (Not anentirely new story, as I found out when I did a Google search today.) Watching it left me with mixed emotions. While I'm all in favor of this ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/commentary/tattoo-artist-starts-young/ I was reading Karen Hudson's account of getting new micro dermal anchors inserted on her blog on the about.com site (here) and it occurred to me that people who get tattoos often get multiple piercings as well. I don't have any piercings I couldn't show my grandmother, if she were still ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/in-general/tattoos-and-piercings/ Last weekend, I went back to Fairfield, Iowa, for the first time in 25 years, for my 40th high school reunion. Even though my family only lived there for three years, and I didn't actually graduate with those guys because we moved after my sophomore year, that's about as ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/about-me/home-again-home-again/ As I was working on this series of posts, my son reminded me that one member of my family did have major objections to tattoos. Fortunately, when I got my first one, my mother lived clear on the other side of the country and could only raise objections over ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/advice/on-compromise-or-not/ When partners have very strong opinions on the issue of tattoos, and those opinions are radically different, sometimes it feels like there's no resolution unless one person gives in. Which, of course, will make the person whose feelings get overridden even more unhappy. People who hate tattoos have their reasons, ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/advice/working-things-out/ A reader recently asked a question about what to do when one's spouse / partner / significant other has serious objections to tattoos. I know a lot of people do have strong feelings on the subject and tattoos still carry negative images to many people. It's not easy to get ... http://tattoo.infmom.net/advice/you-say-yes-i-say-no/