December 23, 2011
Twilight actress Nikki Reed provides a good example of why it is always a risky business getting a tattoo of your other half’s name inked onto your body… While living in Russia during her younger days, the actress met a ballet dancer and decided to have his name tattooed across her wrist.
Now married to someone [...]
December 22, 2011
The most common cause for tattoo regret would appear to be the result of getting a tattoo inked at a young age, with subsequent life changes leading to the tattoo becoming an embarrassment.
Unfortunately, tattoos are designed to be permanent; they are made so by the size of the particles in the ink, which are [...]
December 21, 2011
The singer Cee Lo Green who brought us the hit song ‘Crazy’ had to walk out of a tattoo parlour because the procedure was simply too painful. He had been in the process of having a large tattoo of his family tree inked into the skin of his back, but was unable to stand the [...]
November 30, 2011
An amateur tattoo artist was recently taken to court in Scotland for performing his ‘art’ on underage school children.
While the tattoo artist maintained that he has the necessary sterilisation equipment and used fresh needles, the case highlights some of the risks associated with getting a tattoo.
In this case, the teenager was tattooed when she was [...]
November 29, 2011
When you have a tattoo, ink is driven into the layers of the skin, where it remains trapped. The ink particles are too large for the body’s immune system to remove as it would other foreign bodies.
Intense Pulsed Light Treatment is used to break these particles down into much smaller fragments that can then be [...]
November 25, 2011
Many people have chosen to have a tattoo of their idol inked into their skin as a permanent reminder or source of inspiration.
It may not be such a sensible idea, however, as the associations that such an image can carry can be multiple and can be misinterpreted. The actress Megan Fox is one example. [...]
November 23, 2011
X Factor judge Tulisa greets TV and studio audiences with a signature gesture: she holds her forearm across her chest, exposing the tattoo that is written along the outside oh her arm. The tattoo reads: The Female Boss…
While this in itself doesn’t pose any sort of problem, Tulisa has recently launched a new perfume range. [...]
November 17, 2011
Kelly Clarkson, who was the first winner of American Idol and has since forged herself a career as a pop star, has decided to have her thirteenth tattoo.
She has apparently decided to have it done while on tour in the UK, as a kind of memento of the trip. Tattoos seem to be appearing in [...]
November 16, 2011
A study conducted by researchers in America has come to some disconcerting conclusions. The idea was to try and establish whether a person’s facial features could have an effect on the outcome of a job interview.
Mock interviews were staged, using both undergraduate students and experienced managers and recruiters. Some candidates had scarring, acne or some [...]
November 15, 2011
IPL is used for a variety of treatments, from laser hair removal to pigmentation or tattoo removal. But have you ever wondered how it actually works?
IPL uses a technology that can produce extremely high intensity light for very short periods of time (hence the name Intense Pulsed Light).
In the case of laser hair removal, the [...]
