Forum Discussions - Tattoo & Body Piercing Network2024-03-29T08:16:53Zhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noArmy: Your half-sleeve tattoos could be OKtag:areatattoo.ning.com,2014-04-05:4753809:Topic:211382014-04-05T20:03:49.590ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
<p>By Michael Tan --- </p>
<p>If you have a half-sleeve tattoo that ends above your elbow or your knee, you’re good to go under the Army’s new grooming and appearance reg.</p>
<p>The updated Army Regulation 670-1 was published March 31, and concerns about how much the Army was going to tighten its policies were quickly replaced by confusion about what is acceptable and what will not be grandfathered.</p>
<p>A lot of confusion has centered on sleeve tattoos, which have become highly popular…</p>
<p>By Michael Tan --- </p>
<p>If you have a half-sleeve tattoo that ends above your elbow or your knee, you’re good to go under the Army’s new grooming and appearance reg.</p>
<p>The updated Army Regulation 670-1 was published March 31, and concerns about how much the Army was going to tighten its policies were quickly replaced by confusion about what is acceptable and what will not be grandfathered.</p>
<p>A lot of confusion has centered on sleeve tattoos, which have become highly popular among troops.</p>
<p>Soldiers cannot have tattoos on their face, head, wrists or hands, or tattoos that are racist, extremist, indecent or sexist. They also cannot have more than four visible tattoos below the elbow or below the knee; those tattoos must be smaller than the size of the wearer’s hand.</p>
<p>Visible band tattoos may be no more than two inches in width. Each band tattoo counts as one tattoo, and soldiers may have no more than one visible band tattoo.</p>
<p>Full sleeve tattoos on arms or legs are not authorized.</p>
<p>The same rules apply to officers and warrant officers. Enlisted soldiers exceeding the tattoo limit cannot request commissioning, a new rule that has already irked many soldiers.</p>
<p>Under the new rules, the Army will keep records of soldiers’ tattoos that are to be updated annually.</p>
<p>The new regulation grandfathers a vast majority of soldiers who are already in the ranks, provided they don’t have tattoos that are racist, extremist, indecent or sexist.</p>
<p>The Army worked hard on and put a lot of thought into the updates to AR 670-1, said Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler.</p>
<p>The reg underwent “several iterations” and legal reviews, and Chandler and senior noncommissioned officers across the Army sought feedback and comments from the force.</p>
<p>“I talked about it in every single town hall meeting I conducted,” Chandler said. “I can tell you that probably the biggest or the single highest amount of questions I got were about tattoos.”</p>
<p>The final result is a “fair and balanced approach,” Chandler said.</p>
<p>“It’s not like somebody woke up this morning and said, ‘Today we’re going to change the tattoo policy,’” he said. “Probably thousands of man hours went into coming up with what we feel is a fair and balanced approach to our soldiers who are serving and for those who have yet to serve.”</p> Tattoo culture making its mark on millennialstag:areatattoo.ning.com,2012-09-19:4753809:Topic:141012012-09-19T14:43:46.436ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
<h3 class="deck">More urbanites going under the needle as tattoo taboos fade, artists and sociologists say</h3>
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<h5 class="byline">By Matt Kwong, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/credit.html">CBC News</a></h5>
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<p>Few expressions of individuality are more telling than a tattoo.</p>
<p>At a time when curating one's image is as non-committal as changing a Facebook…</p>
<h3 class="deck">More urbanites going under the needle as tattoo taboos fade, artists and sociologists say</h3>
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<h5 class="byline">By Matt Kwong, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/credit.html">CBC News</a></h5>
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<p>Few expressions of individuality are more telling than a tattoo.</p>
<p>At a time when curating one's image is as non-committal as changing a Facebook status, artists say more young people are embracing the permanence of body modification by way of ink and hypodermic needle.</p>
<p>In B.C. this week, CBC News found evidence of <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/09/17/bc-teen-tattoos.html">so-called amateur scratch artists willing to mark up underage teens</a> without legal parental consent.</p>
<p>It's the kind of "flash art" tattoo experience that University of Toronto sociology professor Michael Atkinson underwent as a 17-year-old in Halifax — choosing a Guns N' Roses emblem from a wall and having it inscribed on his left bicep.</p>
<p>"It was $40. That was 1989. They didn't ask any questions, it was just 'Here you go,'" said Atkinson, author of <i>Tattooed: The Sociogenesis of a Body Art</i>.</p>
<p><strong>The story behind a tattoo</strong></p>
<p>"I have to be honest. I didn't put a hell of a lot of thought into that first one. But now there's a cultural expectation that if you have a tattoo, there has to be some story behind it."</p>
<p>It's an indication of how the industry has grown up in the decades since then, artists and their clients say, with popular perception of tattoo culture shifting to serious art movement from deviant behaviour.</p>
<p>Atkinson — whose arms, chest, ankle and lower neck are inked — describes tattooing as part fashion, part communicative act in a consumer culture that encourages swapping the old for the new.</p>
<p>"It's a frontier for the discussion of human agency," he philosophized. "How much will do we have, as people, to be able to inscribe whatever we want? Facebook is temporary. You can change it, delete things, you can't do that with the body. Tattoos aren't disposable. You can't buy the next model next year."</p>
<p>In Toronto at least, it's a booming trade, said Lizzie Renaud, owner of Speakeasy Tattoo.</p>
<p>In the late 1990s, as an apprentice still working the phones, there were maybe 15 shops in the city, she said. Now, a Yellow Pages search brings up 40 results for Toronto tattoo businesses.</p>
<p>"And that's even just the listed ones. I've heard that the number is around a hundred in the Greater Toronto Area," Renaud said. "It's nuts."</p>
<p>Clients book consultation sessions with the artists, many of whom have fine arts or graphic design degrees and specialize in styles such as photo-realism and Japanese Oni.</p>
<p>And Atkinson foresees more people going under the needle in years ahead, particularly in cosmopolitan areas.</p>
<p>"It's almost an exponential equation. I see tattooed bodies everywhere I go now," he said.</p>
<p>"Kids are also growing up with parents who are more tattooed than the generation before, so there are different social values at home."</p>
<p>The Washington-based Pew Research Center reported in 2010 that 38 per cent of millennials (then the 18-29 age bracket) acknowledged having at least one tattoo.</p>
<p>The report concluded that "tattoos have become something of a trademark" for people who began entering adulthood in the 2000s.</p>
<p>By comparison, 32 per cent of gen-Xers surveyed said they were tattooed, and only 15 per cent of the older baby boomers had body art.</p>
<h3>Reality TV pulling back the curtain</h3>
<p>Rocky Rakovic, editor of <a href="http://www.inkedmag.com/"><em>Inked Magazine</em></a>, credited reality TV programs such as <i>L.A. Ink</i> and the tattoo competition series <i>Ink Master</i> for popularizing what was once deemed a heavy counter-cultural movement.</p>
<p>"The tattoo shop was a scary place. Once television showed that these are normal people working there, it changed people's ideas," Rakovic said from New York.</p>
<p>"So yes, there's the kid who gets drunk on Spring Break and gets a monkey on his arm, but there's also people who spend a lot of money and research the art because they're serious about it."</p>
<p>Delaware-based tattoo artist Shane O'Neill, who specializes in realistic portraits and won the first season of <i>Ink Master</i>, said the shops have cleaned up, too.</p>
<p>"The ink is refined, the colours appear brighter, the needles meet a higher quality standard, where they don't cause as much trauma on the skin," O'Neill said.</p>
<p>He's also seeing a different clientele compared to when he started working 15 years ago</p>
<p>"Doctors, lawyers," O'Neill said. "Most shocking for me was a customer who was a 64-year-old woman — a rabbi — and she waited until she was 64 to get a tattoo."</p>
<p>That's not to say that tattooed bodies are becoming normative or mainstream, Atkinson said.</p>
<p>Toronto or New York City may be liberal spaces, but body art may not be as openly accepted elsewhere and certainly not in some job fields.</p>
<p>"I work in a university, but if I'm working around Bay Street lawyers or big business, and I came in with my hands tattooed, it would be un-normative in that space," Atkinson said, though he acknowledged that being a tenured professor with a family has afforded him a certain "sin licence." (Atkinson plans to get a hand tattooed for the first time in December.)</p>
<h3>Beware 'job-stopper' art</h3>
<p>Tattoo placement is still crucial for most body art collectors, Rakovic said, adding that some respected artists will send prospective clients home for a week to think more seriously about whether they want their knuckles marked for life.</p>
<p>Rakovic said his staff at the <i>Inked</i> offices have a term for those kinds of pieces.</p>
<p>"'Job-stoppers,' we call them," he said.</p>
<p>Even so, tattoo exposure didn't dissuade Dalhousie University from using one of its tattooed faculty members, Chris Helland, in promotional materials in 2007.</p>
<p>Helland, an expert on religion on the internet who got his first tattoo when he was 18, became a poster boy for the school's <a href="http://www.bodymodificationdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Christopher-Helland1.jpg">"Discover the Unexpected" ad campaign</a>, which featured the sociology professor with his sleeves rolled up to display the intricate panorama etched on his arms.</p>
<p>"There was this perception that tattoos are associated with deviant behaviour, and that's a very biased and Eurocentric perspective," Helland said. "But as a sociologist of religion, I'm very fascinated by sacred or religious tattooing, the rituals and the different belief systems associated with it."</p>
<p>The 45-year-old academic noted that all his tattoos can be concealed if he wears a long-sleeved shirt with a collar.</p>
<p>That's certainly the way to go, said Rakovic, who said he's seen enough regrettable tattoos in his years with <i>Inked</i> to stress the permanence of a decision to get inked up.</p>
<h3>Current trends in tattoos</h3>
<p>"Coming in and out of vogue isn't an option," he said, noting that trends are tilting towards script and lettering tattoos, and a popular placement for women's tattoos has moved from the lower back to the rib area.</p>
<p>"We call it the 'skank flank,'" he said. "Every week or two, I see another girl with another rib piece, and you have to tell them that."</p>
<p>Classic "neo-traditional American" tattoos aren't likely to go out of style, whereas "a butterfly on the lower back, or a 'tramp stamp,' is universally panned," he said.</p>
<p>"Tribal has declined while photo-realism, exact representations of people and objects, is on the rise," Rakovic added in an email.</p>
<p>As for the movement to change perceptions at the workplace, Rakovic said there's still a ways to go. A Facebook group called "<a href="http://www.facebook.com/ThINKequality">Tattoo acceptance in the workplace</a>" has more than a million supporters, and Rakovic said he was excited about a popular T-shirt the magazine's online shop is selling — one he <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311490609?profile=original" target="_self"></a>wants more body art collectors to start wearing.</p>
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<p> </p> Contaminated Tattoo Ink is Behind Mysterious Infectionstag:areatattoo.ning.com,2012-09-09:4753809:Topic:139112012-09-09T00:30:45.364ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
<p>In January of this year, a string of unusual patients began to trickle into dermatologist’s offices in Rochester, NY. They had red rashes on areas where they had recently had tattoos, and the usual treatments were not working.</p>
<p>The cases, 19 in all, were reported to the local department of public health. A team there learned that all the patients had developed the rash, which turned out to be a bacterial infection, within three weeks of getting a tattoo at a particular parlor. When…</p>
<p>In January of this year, a string of unusual patients began to trickle into dermatologist’s offices in Rochester, NY. They had red rashes on areas where they had recently had tattoos, and the usual treatments were not working.</p>
<p>The cases, 19 in all, were reported to the local department of public health. A team there learned that all the patients had developed the rash, which turned out to be a bacterial infection, within three weeks of getting a tattoo at a particular parlor. When they interviewed the tattoo artist, they learned that he had recently begun to use a new kind of grey ink. Such ink is often used to create shadow effects, and indeed, the patients’ rashes tended to be on the areas where the grey ink had been injected into their skin.</p>
<p><span id="more-39724"></span>The new color had come from a trade show in Arizona, and this particular artist was the only person using it in the county, as well as the only one whose clients came down with the rash. Since the tattoo artist ran a tidy shop—a health department inspection raised no red flags there—the investigators focused their attention on the ink. They called in the FDA, which requested samples from the ink manufacturer and had the CDC check to see whether the bacterium behind the infections was there. It was, in one of the three unopened bottles they tested. It must have crept in at some stage in the manufacturing process. No one really knows, though, how the bacterium got there.</p>
<p>Though the patients were eventually treated with a barrage of antibiotics and the ink was recalled, this outbreak, which was <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1205114">recently described</a> in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em>, highlights a somewhat unnerving reality: Tattoo ink is considered a cosmetic, and the FDA has very little power to regulate the cosmetics industry. It can, once an outbreak is suspected, request samples and ask the Department of Justice to seize products. But it cannot make manufacturers submit data proving that their products are safe before they are put on the market.</p>
<p>As more and more people get tattoos—the rate has grown from 14% to 21% of the US adult population in just the last 4 years—we may see more outbreaks that have more to do with safety failures on the manufacturer’s end than on the hygiene of the tattoo parlor.</p> California counties step up tattoo shop inspectionstag:areatattoo.ning.com,2012-09-08:4753809:Topic:137212012-09-08T16:55:19.514ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
<p>---- By Ed Fletcher The Sacramento Bee September 8, 2012 ----</p>
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<p>---- By Ed Fletcher The Sacramento Bee September 8, 2012 ----</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">As county officials work to implement state legislation requiring tattoo and piercing shops to register and pass a battery of tests, some area practitioners question the need for the new regulations and ask whether the government will crack down on underground artists.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">AB 300 created California inspection and registration protocols for tattoo and piercing shops, as well as the artists, but left it to the counties to do the legwork. The bill, authored by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, is aimed at protecting the public from exposure to hepatitis C and other blood-borne pathogens. It took effect in July.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Ma said she was shocked six years ago to learn there were no state rules on the operation of tattoo parlors.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"I wanted to do something about this to ensure diseases would not be shared through needles," Ma said.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">With the backing of industry trade groups, her legislation was passed in 2011.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The legislation also allows counties to assess shops and practitioners to fund annual inspections.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; font-style: normal; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; outline-width: 0px; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #024a82; font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/Placer+County/" rel="nofollow">Placer County</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>took action Tuesday, adopting a fee schedule under which Placer County tattoo and piercing practitioners must pay $80 a year. Other fees were assigned for permanent facilities, temporary events and in various other categories.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">In<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; font-style: normal; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; outline-width: 0px; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #024a82; font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/Sacramento+County/" rel="nofollow">Sacramento County,</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which charges practitioners $142 a year under its fee schedule, environmental specialist Anne Frey was busy Thursday implementing the new rules. By early afternoon, Highland's Finest Tattoos in North Highlands became just the 13th county location to pass inspection.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"It's the intent of this law to protect the client and the artist," said Frey, as she wrapped up the one-hour-plus inspection.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">During her visit, she watched tattoo artist Art Pillado set up his workstation, examined the shop's training records and ensured that needles were disposed of properly, among other things.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Shop owner Kenya Bell was pleased to pass and said she was supportive of the inspection requirements.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"I really think it will be better for the profession," Bell said. "I think people will respect it more."</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Frey left after placing a green "pass" placard in the shop's window. Displaying the placard is voluntary. The inspections are mandatory.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Sacramento County officials say there are more than 175 facilities that will need inspections, but so far only 47 have asked for them.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Some tattoo shop owners believe the county's estimate is low, and complain that it doesn't take into account people who work from home without a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="font-style: normal; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; outline-width: 0px; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" class=" lingo_link lingo_link_hidden" href="http://topics.sacbee.com/business+license/" rel="nofollow">business license.</a></p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">A search of the online classified site Craigslist revealed seven people offering tattoos, one offering permanent makeup, one selling piercings, three selling tattoo equipment and one guy soliciting a tattoo in exchange for an Xbox 360 video game system.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"If they don't go after people who are working out of their house and not compliant, what is the point?" asked Dave O'Connor, owner of Sacramento Tattoo.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">O'Connor said the registration revenue should be used to go after the underground artists.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Whether counties will have the time or resources to go after unlicensed practitioners remains to be seen. Alicia Enriquez, deputy chief of the Sacramento County Environmental Management Department, said inspectors will act on tips, but noted that tattoo shop inspections will be just one of many duties for them.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Ken Stuart, interim director of environmental health for Placer County, was blunt, noting that "none of the fees" go toward enforcement.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">O'Connor and others said the best tattoo and piercing practitioners had taken blood-borne pathogen training and done 90 percent of what is required by AB 300 before it became law.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"People's health and welfare isn't being threatened by people working out of a shop, it's being threatened by people working out of their house next to their cat box," said Drew Howell, an artist at Sacramento Tattoo.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Britton McFetridge, owner of Royal Peacock Tattoo, questioned the need for the law. He said the county can't point to any local instance where hepatitis C was spread by tattoo artists' dirty needles.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"For us, there was never a problem," he said.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The new rules have prompted some changes in operations at local shops. Highland's Finest installed a new sink with a touch-free faucet. Sacramento Tattoo will be installing two new sinks, has added a new test to its already fastidious cleaning regimen and updated some paperwork.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; margin-bottom: 15px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"Most of what AB 300 requires, we were already doing," O'Connor said.</p>
<div style="text-align: left; text-transform: none; width: 1px; font: 10pt sans-serif; height: 1px; color: #000000; overflow: hidden;"><br/>Read more here: <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/24/4753249/california-counties-step-up-tattoo.html#storylink=cpy">http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/24/4753249/california-counties-step-up-tattoo.html#storylink=cpy</a></div>
<div style="text-align: left; text-transform: none; width: 1px; font: 10pt sans-serif; height: 1px; color: #000000; overflow: hidden;"><br/>Read more here: <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/24/4753249/california-counties-step-up-tattoo.html#storylink=cpy">http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/24/4753249/california-counties-step-up-tattoo.html#storylink=cpy</a></div> Top Arizona court rules tattooing is protected speechtag:areatattoo.ning.com,2012-09-08:4753809:Topic:139072012-09-08T16:12:22.175ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
<p><span class="byline bordered" style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: block; font: bold 15px/19px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Tim Gaynor - Reuters …</span></p>
<p><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: block; font: bold 15px/19px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="byline bordered">Tim Gaynor - Reuters <span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: italic 12px/14px 'Helevetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #757575; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">September 7, 2012 ---- </span></span></p>
<p><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: block; font: bold 15px/19px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="byline bordered"><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: italic 12px/14px 'Helevetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #757575; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona's Supreme Court, stepping into a zoning dispute over a tattoo parlor, ruled on Friday that tattooing was a constitutionally protected form of free speech, the first such decision by any state high court in the country, lawyers said.</span><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The ruling stemmed from a dispute between tattoo artists Ryan and Laetitia Coleman and the Phoenix valley city of Mesa, which denied the pair a business permit three years ago to set up shop in a local strip mall.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: block; font: bold 15px/19px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="byline bordered"><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: italic 12px/14px 'Helevetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #757575; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The Colemans, an American-French couple who live and work in the French city of Nice, originally applied to Mesa in July 2008 for a business permit, and city zoning staff recommended it be issued to them the following February.</span><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">After a public hearing, the board voted to recommend the council deny the permit, arguing the shop was "not appropriate for the location or in the best interest of the neighborhood," according to court documents.</span><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The Colemans filed a lawsuit in 2009 alleging violations to their rights to free speech, due process and equal protection under both the U.S. and state constitutions. The suit was dismissed by the Maricopa County Superior Court.</span><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"Recognizing that tattooing involves constitutionally protected speech, we hold that the superior court erred by dismissing the complaint as a matter of law," the state Supreme Court said in its ruling.</span><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The ruling does not mean that Mesa must allow the Colemans to open their tattoo parlor, only that the court erred in dismissing their suit. It noted that cities had the right to regulate business location through zoning ordinances and that the "factual dispute" between the parties would have to be determined at trial.</span><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The Colemans have sought a ruling allowing them to open their parlor and want compensation for business lost over the past three years.</span><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"It is very significant ... Tattoo artists are often subjected to enormous regulation, especially in terms of operating their businesses," their attorney, Clint Bolick, told Reuters.</span><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"As a result we now know that in Arizona, tattoo artists will be able to ply their trade free from excessive regulation," he added.</span><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><br style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"/><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #fafafa; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px Georgia, Times, serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #292727; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The question of whether tattooing is protected speech had been litigated in other U.S. states with mixed outcomes, Bolick said, adding the Arizona decision was the first by a state Supreme Court to affirm it was protected speech.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p></p> Beyond ‘Mom’: Tattoo Artists Talk Trends vs. Custom Worktag:areatattoo.ning.com,2012-08-12:4753809:Topic:136162012-08-12T15:06:33.624ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
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<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">When customers eager to get inked walk into a Williamsburg or Greenpoint tattoo parlor with a design in hand, chances are the artist has seen it — or something like it — before.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">So the busy Brooklyn tattoo artists<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="border-bottom-style: none !important; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; outline-width: medium; color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443537404577577011241326708.html?mod=WSJ_NY_MIDDLETopStories">profiled in the Journal</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday admit tiring of trends like Chinese characters and Japanese lettering, getting a bigger kick out of inking customers with their own designs.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">In an ideal world, artist Jeb Maykut would create designs for all walk-in clients at Flyrite Tattoo in Williamsburg. “It would be, ‘I want a rose,’ and that would be all the input. When you come and you see it, you say ‘OK, that’s great,’” Maykut says. “The worst client you can get is an art director in a graphic design firm, because, they’ll drive you crazy.’”</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">On a recent afternoon at Flyrite Tattoo, artist Maykut was working on a Japanese Hannya, or demon mask, for Milam Bostroem, visiting from Sweden. The traditional Japanese styles “make for really timeless tattoos,” says Maykut. “In 50 years, it’s not going to be a dated thing some tattoos are.” As an example, Maykut cites “the curse of the tribal tattoo,” a popular tattoo style in the 90s.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Maykut’s advice? Get the artist’s input. “You don’t go to your doctor and tell him how to operate, don’t go to a tattoo artist and tell him how to tattoo,” says Maykut.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Right now, Gene Coffey, an artist who works at Tattoo Culture in Williamsburg, says he’s seeing a lot of what he calls “American traditional” designs in the neighborhood: “Sailor kinds of tattoos. Big bold outlines, simple color palettes, the traditional rose tattoo. Then you also see a lot of Japanese stuff too.”</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ryan Roi, 25, an artist at Asylum Studios in Williamsburg, says that right now he’s seeing a lot geometric designs, like triangles, and also “script, miles and miles of script.” But the creative people in the neighborhood are also open to tattooing out of the box and getting original pieces, he says.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">“People try to be clever and ironic, but then you also get people that see some of my art and are into that, that’s the type of stuff I really enjoy doing,” he says. “There are tattooists and tattoo artists, and real tattoo artists want to do real art because they’re artists before anything,” adds Roi.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amanda Wachob is one artist that blends both worlds, creating paintings that are often turned into tattoos, and tattooing canvases and fruit for her shows. Wachob runs a studio out of Williamsburg after leaving a tattoo shop in Manhattan. Now that she’s on her own, she says she can be highly selective about the work she does and tries to push for custom work.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">As people start to understand what the artist is trying to achieve in their work, they “start giving you more freedom and leeway, they trust you and give you more control over what you do,” she says.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 1em; display: block; font: 1.4em/1.5em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">“It’s a craft,” says Saved Tattoo’s Scott Campbell. “It’s one of the last things that’s completely analogued. There’s no mass producing, you can’t order it on Amazon. It has a specialness to it that it’ll never lose.”</p> FBI asks local police for tattoo databasestag:areatattoo.ning.com,2012-08-12:4753809:Topic:139022012-08-12T15:00:59.810ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
<h5 style="line-height: normal; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; font-size: 1em; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">By<span class="Apple-converted-space"> …</span></h5>
<h5 style="line-height: normal; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; font-size: 1em; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">By<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="margin: 0px; color: #072d44; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px;" href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120810/NEWS0107/208100370/"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="author vcard"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="fn"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Walter Pacheco</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="source-org vcard"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="org fn"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Orlando Sentinel</span></span></span></span></em></h5>
<p><small style="line-height: normal; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #666666; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="pubDate">Published:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">August 10. 2012 4:00AM</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>PST</small></p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">ORLANDO, Fla. — The FBI wants your tattoos — more specifically, the meanings behind their inky black lines and colorful shapes — and it’s asking local law enforcement agencies for help.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The FBI’s Biometric Center of Excellence, which already collects tattoos and other identity markers in its massive database, sent a request July 13 to police agencies for information “related to any current databases containing tattoo/symbol images, their possible meanings, gang affiliations, terrorist groups or other criminal organizations."</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gang members and terrorist groups often share symbols among their followers as a way to easily identify one another and gauge member loyalty. Members of the Latin Kings, for example, illustrate their bodies with a crown, while members of the MS-13 gang usually tattoo “MS" on their skin.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">But other symbols are more cryptic.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">FBI agents say combining their database with information gathered from tattoo databases at more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies could improve everyone’s biometric-based crime-fighting and anti-terrorism efforts.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Some of our database users have expressed a desire for (knowing) what tattoos may potentially mean," said Bill Casey, program director at the FBI’s biometric center. “We are trying to learn the lay of the land and see if there are any databases out there agencies may want to share."</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Central Florida law enforcement agencies routinely save in databases the digital images they take of tattoos and scars found on suspects, others under investigation or bodies that are discovered. Jails in Seminole and Lake counties also document such identity markers on all inmates.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">None of the local agencies that do this, however, would talk with the Orlando Sentinel about the practice or the FBI’s request to share and help interpret their databases.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The FBI’s interest in broadening and deepening its tattoo database is part of the agency’s larger project of collecting biometric information for its Next Generation Identification Program. That initiative, split into seven stages, also aims to expand the agency’s collection of fingerprints, palm prints and iris scans, and to improve existing facial-recognition technology.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The agency hopes to deploy an improved, searchable database of tattoos, scars and birthmarks in 2014, agency records show.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Though the federal government emphasizes that its interest in tattoos is solely for investigative and informative purposes, some individuals are leery of the government tracking people’s tattoos.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I have a crown on my shoulder, but I’m not a member of the Latin Kings. The crown is a symbol for my mom, who was the queen in my life," said bartender Fernando Bonilla, 28, of Orlando. “I don’t want a cop stopping me, taking a picture of my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">tattoo and sending it to the federal government."</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Casey said that would not happen.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">“People have to meet more than one particular criteria to be identified as a possible gang member, and having a tattoo that resembles a gang symbol is not enough," he said.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eric Phillips, an FBI management-and-program analyst, said law enforcement’s ability to properly decipher the iconography of tattoos would benefit certain civilians, too.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The database could actually benefit the kid who gets a tattoo similar to a gang tattoo and lands in jail," Phillips said. “If a gang finds out that he’s not really a member, it could be a very dangerous situation for that kid." He said tattoo identification and tracking could also help prisons and jails keep rival gangs separated.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sailor Bill Johnson, a local tattoo artist and vice president of the National Tattoo Association, said he’s not worried about the FBI asking local police and others about tattoos.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font: 1.2em/1.5em 'Helvetica Neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">“You don’t see a lot of (gang) tattoos getting done at local tattoo shops. Those are usually done by ‘scratchers’ who are not professionals," said Johnson, who has owned the Tattoo Time shop in Maitland since 1983. “If you’re not breaking the law, then you shouldn’t have to worry about anything."</p> 11 Steps to Getting a Tattoo You Won't Regret for the Rest of Your Lifetag:areatattoo.ning.com,2012-08-12:4753809:Topic:137072012-08-12T14:50:08.743ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
<h1 style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font: 24px/26px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311490725?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311490725?profile=original" width="500"></img></a> 11 Steps to Getting a Tattoo You Won't Regret for the Rest of…</h1>
<h1 style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font: 24px/26px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311490725?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311490725?profile=original" width="500"/></a>11 Steps to Getting a Tattoo You Won't Regret for the Rest of Your Life <span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">By<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; outline-style: none; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #114999; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" href="http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=46601">Lizzy Acker</a><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">|</span><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Aug 11, 2012</span></h1>
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<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tattoos last forever, or at least as long as your body lasts, which is pretty much forever in human terms. For a lot of people (your boss and your grandpa), this is the main reason not to get them. For other people (you), this is what makes them so great. Your pets and your parents will die, your house will get bulldozed to build a superhighway, your friends will move to New York City. But your tattoos? Barring a full-body burning accident, they will be with you through the whole scary, sublime thing, until you are sitting in your easy chair, unable to pee without the help of an in-home care assistant. Until finally, you lose consciousness and stop existing. How comforting to know that a) your memories will be written on your body no matter how badly your brain disintegrates and b) your in-home care assistant will have something pretty to look at while he's pulling down your pants for you.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">I have 6 tattoos and I know an amazing tattooer, so I consider myself enough of an expert to educate you on the process of getting art permanently inscribed on your skin. To fully commit to this project, I decided to go get a tattoo and, while it was happening, interview<a style="outline-style: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #114999; text-decoration: none;" href="http://derickmontez.tumblr.com/">Derick Montez</a>, who works at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="outline-style: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #114999; text-decoration: none;" href="http://sftattoo.com/artists/derick-montez/">Picture Machine Tattoo</a>. He's the guy who has given me 3 of my tattoos and who is, in my opinion, the best tattoo artist of all time ever. Derek isn't even 30 yet but he apprenticed with well-known graffiti and tattoo artist<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="outline-style: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #114999; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.mikegiant.com/index.php">Mike Giant</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and is a great visual artist in a bunch of different mediums, beyond being a respected tattooer. So, without further ado, your step-by-step guide to getting a tattoo you won't regret for the rest of your life:</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>Before your tattoo:</i></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>1. Research! This is THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL THE STEPS.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Getting a good tattoo requires some actual preparation. According to Derick: "The biggest mistake I think someone can make is not doing research on the artist that they get tattooed by. Tattooing has become such a popularized trend... more people are tattooing now, more than ever, but just because someone gets the idea in their head that they want to be a tattooer doesn't mean that they have the proper training or the proper techniques. It's just like anything else: if you have the money, you can open up a shop, but that doesn't mean you know what you're doing."</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">So look at portfolios online. Derick says: "Most reputable shops have portfolios -- what you're looking for is consistency in work... you want to make sure the photos are clear, recognizable, readable, because a lot of times people just put up garbage photos... tattoos that are still wrapped in plastic. If you can find healed photos of peoples' tattoo work, that is a lot better."</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">I know he's right because this is exactly how my ex-boyfriend found Derick: obsessive internet searching to find the perfect tattoo artist for his first tattoo. I do not have this kind of patience and my first 3 tattoos are a testament to that (I still love them, but they are nothing compared to Derick's work), so I am very grateful that someone finally did the research for me. But you shouldn't be so lazy! Do the research yourself! You won't regret it!</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>2. Don't price shop.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Would you look on Craigslist for the cheapest babysitter? Maybe, this isn't a parenting lesson, but the point is, if some guy says he'll give you a tattoo for 40 bucks, walk away. Instead, be ready to pay as much as it takes to get high quality work. Pick cheaper shoes or buy your rice in bulk if you want to save money, but when it comes to art that will be on your body until you die, don't expect to pay less than $100 before tip, and a lot more if you are getting something large or adding color.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>3. Check out the shop in person.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">When you find someone you think you like, go into the shop and meet the artist in real life before you actually get anything done. First, the shop should be clean. Check for work on display and see how you feel about the aesthetic in person. Then, go with your gut. My first tattoo, which I got when I was about 20, was the result of something halfway between a whim and a manic compulsion, when I decided I needed a tattoo and jumped on the bus that went to the part of Portland rife with tattoo parlors. The first one I went into was clean enough, but something about it gave me the heebie jeebies and I got back on the bus and got off at a smaller, friendlier place, where I ended up getting a tiny star below my left hip.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Derick put it this way: "Generally, if people are going to take the time to answer your questions and not be a dick, they have confidence in their work... you should never really feel pressured to get tattooed right then and there."</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">(Side note: You can always start small and come back for something bigger when you are ready. Three years after I got that star, the same artist gave me the outline of Oregon with a heart in it. Sometimes slowly building up to a bigger piece is a good idea.)</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you do your research and find a really great tattooer, you are 90 percent of the way to getting an awesome tattoo. The rest of these things will become a lot easier, because a good, professional tattooer will be looking out for you -- they want your tattoo to look awesome since it represents them. Remember though, this is your body and ultimately you make the decisions. So for better or worse, the end result is your responsibility.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>4. Spend some time thinking about the design.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Obviously, this goes without saying but I am going to say it anyway: don't get something you really will regret. Disney princesses,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="outline-style: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #114999; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/tattoo_aryan_brotherhood_clover.asp">an Aryan Brotherhood clover</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or anything else that might get you killed in prison, misspelled Chinese idioms, your on-again, off-again boyfriend's name. These things ruin lives. Pick something with personal meaning or something you think is beautiful. Go in ahead of time to talk to your tattoo artist about the design. My last 3 tattoos started as just ideas and I pretty much gave Derick free reign to do what he wanted, since he knows a lot more about tattoos and making beautiful things than I do. I am very happy with the results.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>Day of the tattoo:</i></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>5. Don't be drunk.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">I'm not going to explain this to you. You know better. Also, a good tattoo artist will not tattoo you if you are drunk.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>6. Eat something before you go.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">No wants you to pass out. Eat dinner! Bring along some candy to chew on if you are getting something big done.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>7. Don't come in with a posse.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Derick: "I think a mistake a lot of people can make is coming into a tattoo shop with a whole plethora of friends. I've watched people come in, know what they want, and through the opinion of 4 or 5 other people end up getting something completely different or going against the advice of the tattoo artist."</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Derick has a lot of great tattoos and he says: "Whenever I've gotten my tattoos, I've done it all by myself... just so I know that whatever I'm getting is all on me."</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bring a friend if you are nervous or if you just want the company. But don't bring a pack. You did your research, remember? This is between you and the person putting it on your body. It doesn't really matter that your friend with no tattoos thinks it would look better in orange on your left kneecap.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>8. Make sure it is really what you want.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The tattoo artist will put a transfer of the tattoo on your body in the place you want it before he actually starts in with the needle and ink (in this case Derick actually drew on me, but usually it starts with a transfer). Make sure you like the size and the placement. This is not the time to be passive. Listen to the tattooer (not your friends) but remember: your body, your choice.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>9. Accept that this will hurt.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yes, it will hurt. It is needles poking your skin deeply and quickly. But if it didn't hurt, would it mean as much? Plus, now instead of being the person asking their tatted-up friend, "Oh man, did that hurt?" you will be the person answering, "Yeah, it wasn't so bad."</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>After the tattoo is done:</i></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>10. Tip!</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">You did your research and you got an awesome tattoo! So tip! At least 20 percent and always in cash. Let me repeat that: always in cash. So make sure you have enough BEFORE YOU GET TO THE TATTOO PARLOR.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>11. Follow the care instructions.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Derick: "People should really treat their tattoo like they got a flesh wound."</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Me: Because they did.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="outline-style: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #114999; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.sharptattoos.com/aftercare.html">So wash it with unscented soap, don't touch it or pick at it, use the recommended lotion, don't soak in any water.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">True story: I played a soccer game right after I got my Oregon tattoo. Due to the stretching caused by running around and sweating, when the tattoo healed, the border of the state and the heart in the middle had dots of bare skin. I had to wait 6 months and get the whole thing redone. Not only did it hurt about 50 times worse than the original tattoo, now it is raised like a scar while the rest of my tattoos seem flush with my skin.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font: 13px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">So, what more can I tell you? If you do your research and pick a tattooer whose aesthetic you like and who gives you a good feeling in your stomach and you get a tattoo that won't force you to join a white supremacist gang in prison, and then you take care of it, you will end up with a piece of art on your body that no one can ever take away. Good luck!</p>
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<p></p> California Tattoo parlors get more regulatory inktag:areatattoo.ning.com,2012-05-08:4753809:Topic:121022012-05-08T01:21:19.487ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
<p>By Joe Nelson, The (San Bernadino County) Sun</p>
<p><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: small sans-serif, Geneva, Helvetica, Ariel; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Eric Olguin works on a tattoo for Tony Parrini, 52, of Hemet at Tattoo Revolution in…</span></p>
<p>By Joe Nelson, The (San Bernadino County) Sun</p>
<p><span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: small sans-serif, Geneva, Helvetica, Ariel; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Eric Olguin works on a tattoo for Tony Parrini, 52, of Hemet at Tattoo Revolution in Redlands. The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider an ordinance that would regulate body art facilities, i.e. tattoo parlors, in the county s unincorporated areas. The ordinance would require those businesses to be consistent with state Safe Body Art Act, which goes into effect on July 1. All tattoo parlors and other body art businesses would have to get proper permits from health department, and tattoo artists and body piercers would have to register annually with environmental health to stay in compliance.</span></p>
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A proposed ordinance that would impose more regulations on tattoo and body piercing parlors and other body art facilities goes before the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, for consideration.<br />
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<p>On Oct. 9, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the Safe Body Art Act of 2011 (AB300), which tightens up regulations for body art facilities by requiring practitioners who apply tattoos, body piercings, permanent makeup and even branding to register annually with their counties or cities.</p>
<p>The proposed San Bernardino County ordinance would be consistent with the new state law and would require practitioners at the county's 91 body art establishments to undergo blood-borne pathogen training, said Corwin Porter, division chief <span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">for the county Department of Public Health.</span></p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Specialized training in blood-borne pathogens is to help deter the spread of viruses and infections including hepatits, HIV, and staph. In addition, body art practitioners, under the new law, are required to wear latex gloves when applying tattoos, permanent makeup and brands or doing body piercings, Porter said.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The state law goes into effect on July 1.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Practitioners see the good and bad in more government regulation.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"The pros is that it'll hopefully shut down a lot of these guys that are tattooing out of their house or garage and spreading around a bunch of viruses and staph infections," said Eric Olguin, 33, a tattoo artist who works at Tattoo Revolution in <span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Redlands.</span></p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The downside, Olguin said, is that more government regulation creates more legwork and adds additional expenses, which could make it harder for some businesses just starting out to get off the ground.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The proposed ordinance is expected to generate roughly $55,000 in annual revenue in its first year.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Body art businesses will also be required to renew their permits annually and to adhere to stringent sanitation requirements.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Though such facilities are currently required to obtain proper permits and maintain certain degrees of cleanliness in order to operate, regulations, officials believe, have been insufficient, Porter said.</p>
<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"There was no real teeth in them," Porter said of existing laws. He said businesses will now be required to display their permits on the walls or in the windows of their establishments so they are clearly visible to patrons.</p>
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<p style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Similar rules will apply to those wanting to operate mobile body art facilities or provide their services at large events such as fairs or conventions, Porter said.</p>
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</div> One in Five U.S. Adults Now Has a Tattootag:areatattoo.ning.com,2012-02-24:4753809:Topic:107012012-02-24T05:52:03.077ZBrent Allen, Tattoo Networkhttp://areatattoo.ning.com/profile/BrentAllen
<p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 12px/17px Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #888888; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Feb. 23, 2012, 6:04 a.m. EST ---…</span></p>
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<p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 12px/17px Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #888888; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Feb. 23, 2012, 6:04 a.m. EST ---</span></p>
<p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 12px/17px Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #888888; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 12px/17px Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #888888; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 14px/18px Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">NEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- There is a lot of culture and lore associated with tattoos from ancient art to modern expressionism and there are many reasons people choose to get, or not get, permanent body ink. A recent Harris Poll looks at the number of Americans who currently have tattoos, and what those tattoos may say about them.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 2,016 adults surveyed online between January 16 and 23, 2012 by Harris Interactive.</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">Currently one in five U.S. adults has at least one tattoo (21%) which is up from the 16% and 14% who reported having a tattoo when this question was asked in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Tattoos seem to be most prevalent in the West -- 26% of adults in that region report having at least one -- compared to fewer in the East (21%), Midwest (21%) and South (18%). Adults aged 30-39 are most likely to have a tattoo (38%) compared to both those younger (30% of those 25-29 and 22% of those 18-24) and older (27% of those 40-49, 11% of those 50-64 and just 5% of those 65 and older). Women are slightly more likely than men, for the first time since this question was first asked, to have a tattoo (now 23% versus 19%).</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">Among those with a tattoo, most have never regretted getting a tattoo (86%) and three in ten say it makes them feel more sexy (30%). One-quarter say having a tattoo makes them feel rebellious (25%), 21% say both it makes them feel attractive or strong, 16% say it makes them feel spiritual and fewer say it makes them feel more healthy (9%), intelligent (8%) or athletic (5%).</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">However, among those without tattoos the opinions differ:</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">At least two in five say that people with tattoos are less attractive (45%) or sexy (39%);</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">One-quarter say that people with tattoos are less intelligent (27%), healthy (25%) or spiritual (25%);</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">However, having a tattoo seems to make little difference in non-tattooed people's perceptions regarding strength and athleticism (82% say it makes no difference); yet,</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">Half of those without a tattoo say people with tattoos are more rebellious (50%).</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">This idea connecting tattoos with rebelliousness is not new, however, it may be waning. In 2008 among all adults (whether or not they had a tattoo) almost three in ten said that people with tattoos are more likely to do something most people consider deviant (29%) while 2% said people with tattoos were less likely to do something deviant and 69% said it made no difference. Today, the number of people who say adults with tattoos are more likely to do something most people consider deviant has dropped to 24%, and the number of people who say it makes no difference has gone up, to 74%.</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">Looking at some other forms of body art or expression, currently 49% of U.S. adults have pierced ears, which is consistent with the 50% who reported having pierced ears in 2008. Although ear piercing is fairly common, other piercings are not: only 7% say they have a piercing elsewhere on their body and 4% report having a facial piercing not on the ear. Only 1% of U.S. adults say that they currently have a henna, or non-permanent, tattoo.</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;">Although tattoos may be gaining popularity (or at least frequency) among U.S. adults, the majority think that one should be an adult before being able to get a tattoo -- 84% of U.S. adults say that young people should be between 18 and 21 years of age before they are able to get a tattoo without parental permission. 8% think those 16 or 17 should be allowed to get tattoos and 6% say that the age limit should be 22 years or older.</p>
<p style="padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding-left: 6px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 6px; font: 1.16em/1.35em Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;"><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 14px/18px Arial; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #333333; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Tattoos have long been a hobby for some, and with the recent proliferation of tattoo-related television shows, it seems interest in them may be broadening. Today 21% of U.S. adults report having a tattoo which is up from previous years. It seems that with the increasing number of adults with tattoos this permanent body art is becoming more accepted -- fewer people think it is related to deviant behavior than before -- yet among those without tattoos there are still several negative stigmas associated with having tattoos. It will be interesting to see how these trends evolve in the future -- if more people continue to get tattoos will the negative connotations decline, or will the percentage of Americans with tattoos begin to stagnate or wane and the stigmas hold?</span></p>
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