Tattoos on the Job – Perception Has Changed Since the 50s

Tattoos on the Job – Perception Has Changed Since the 50s


To better shed some insight as to how many people during the present day have tattoos, and who work all sorts of different jobs, Pew Research conducted a survey back in 2006 – so imagine what the numbers are now, six years later – that purported that about 36% of persons ages 18-25 entering the workplace had tattoos, and 40% off all adults ages 25-40 have at least one. So …

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Is Lil’ Wayne The Most Tatted Rapper?

Is Lil’ Wayne The Most Tatted Rapper?


When it comes to tatted rappers, there is one fellow who easily can get top nods: Lil Wayne. While there are a gazillion-plus photos that are circulating the internet that feature Wayne’s countless tattoos – his entire body or at least visible areas of skin are wonderfully inked – perhaps the best high definition showing that can be seen is in the most recent music video he released that featured Bruno Mars (…

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What to Expect: Full Sleeve Tattoos with Color and Line Work

What to Expect: Full Sleeve Tattoos with Color and Line Work


So you want full sleeve tattoos with curvaceous designs, colors and intricate line work – the whole nine yards, huh? I’ve got a large part of my body tattooed, including two full sleeves and my entire back, and have spent well over 200 hours under the gun in the process of doing so. My full sleeve tattoos were done using the freehand method with points of reference that were marked on my arms and back prior to the needle hitting …

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The Death of the “Tramp Stamp” — Why It’s Sooo OUT!

The Death of the “Tramp Stamp” — Why It’s Sooo OUT!


Before we delve into a haughty subject matter that may be the remora of deucedly doggedness – and repute for many lower back tattoo-flaunting gals out there – no offense to any of you is intended; even if you have a back tattoo that may be interpreted as a “Tramp Stamp.” Natheless, the reality is that popular culture and urban definition of a lower back tattoo that’s tribal, cursive, or some sort of horizontally wide pattern on the lower back …

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15 Best Celebrity Tattoos

15 Best Celebrity Tattoos


Once the calling card of true, hardcore rockers, convicts and sailors on leave, tattoos have lost a bit of their sting and stigma in the past decade. The formerly forbidden rite of passage is now as commonly seen on cuddly child stars trying to show their “edge” and tramp-stamped moms at the community pool as it is on Hollywood harlots and their bad boy beaus.

Writing about the 15 best celebrity tattoos might sound …

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Inked Interview with Vivica A Fox

Inked Interview with Vivica A Fox


INKED Magazine sat down with Vivica A. Fox to dish on her new VHI show Glam God and dig (skin) deep to discover her many tattoos.

INKED: How does your new VH1 show Glam God with Vivica A. Fox work?

FOX: We moved 15 stylists into a home. They are from the different worlds of fashion, from hair to makeup to wardrobe. We divided them into teams and put them through tests of styling for either a photo shoot, red carpet …

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25 Inked Magazine Cover Girls of 2008

25 Inked Magazine Cover Girls of 2008


Twenty-five of the sexiest celebrity cover girls of 2008 are certified tattoo lovers, reinforcing the infiltration of ink into the mainstream scene. Not only are these women successful in their professional fields – be it on film, television or music; but they also sizzle in magazine covers because of, or despite, their newsworthy tattoos.

Here are the hottest magazine cover girls of 2008, and their rich collection of body art.

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Inked Interview with Actor Jason Mewes

Inked Interview with Actor Jason Mewes


Silent Bob’s better half talks Kevin Smith, comic books, tattoos, and kicking his drug habit.

Actor Jason Mewes is standing in the living room of his Los Angeles home, taking off his shirt. Positioned in front of his laptop’s webcam, he shows off the “15 or 16″ tattoos he’s acquired during his 34 tumultuous years. He lifts his shirt and motions first to an elaborate tribal design on his shoulder. “I got this one in Santa Cruz … and …

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Inked Interview with Montel Williams

Inked Interview with Montel Williams


He’s a former Navy spy, a medicinal marijuana smoker, and a tattoo enthusiast. Meet the other side of the daytime television king.

Take one look at the half-sleeves blanketing both of his upper arms and it’s clear Montel Williams lives up to his talk show’s slogan, “There’s More to Montel.” Who would have ever guessed that underneath those neatly pressed shirts, this fixture of daytime jibber jabber is hiding intricate ink murals by the likes of the legendary Zulu from Zulu …

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Inked Interview with Margaret Cho

Inked Interview with Margaret Cho


Nothing about Margaret Cho made it look like she had a chance in hell in Hollywood.

Chubby, Korean, and bisexual (she admits to all three) in a business that typically has a hard time swallowing that list, Cho’s rank as one of the biggest female comedians on the planet is the result of a one-woman battle, built from her fi rst stand-up comedy gigs in a club near her parents’ book store in San Francisco to tours with Jerry Seinfeld and …

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