by John | May 25, 2019 | Blog, Fashion, Society
Dissuading children’s interest in tattoos – not an easy task. There’s something cool about tattoos and a often a mystery that surrounds a person with a tattoo. For a non-tattooed person, that is. But another tattooed person would tell you, nope. There’s no...
by John | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Fashion, General
Tattoos have been around for centuries but is still considered a novelty in places where you rarely pass people with body art on the street. Here, people will sometimes stare, disapprove or if you’re lucky, they don’t care. It is slowly becoming...
by John | May 28, 2018 | Blog
Sometimes in life we just have to start over and reinvent ourselves. We may have taken a wrong turn somewhere and ended up becoming the kind of person we did not envisage. Human beings are highly susceptible to suggestion, especially if those directions are coming...
by John | Apr 19, 2017 | Business, Commercial Tattoos, Society
As we get older, wiser and more mature, we tend to mull over on the decisions we made over the past years or so. More often than not, the repercussions of these resolves stay with us more protracted that what we’d expect. One’s wayward youth may have caused one to get...
by John | Mar 1, 2016 | Commercial Tattoos
Photo: Nonbox.com People get tattoos for a number of reasons. It could be an artistic expression, rebellion, group identification or cultural recognition. The popularity of tattoos became a massive global phenomenon in the 21st century making it a major cosmetic...
by John | Mar 1, 2016 | Society
I once saw a ‘garbo’ with a tattoo of a giant dumpster on his back bearing the skull and crossbones. Rubbish removal guys also love their tattoos. Another bloke in the waste management business had a tattoo of a pile of stinking rubbish with the words ‘Such Is Life’...
by John | Mar 1, 2016 | Society
I always remember walking into a tattoo parlour and seeing the tattoo artist drinking a can of Jim Beam bourbon and coke as he worked on the near naked girl under his inky needles. I thought to myself, what a classy fella. Definitely a professional industry with high...
by John | Mar 1, 2016 | Business
With the explosion in the number of young men and women getting tattooed over the last decade or two, there is now a concurrent demand for tattoo removal. A quarter of all Australians under the age of thirty have a tattoo, according to research carried out in 2013. It...
by John | Mar 1, 2016 | Society
The tattoo is the mark of the criminal, as the criminal is a rebel from the norms that govern society. The tattoo proudly declares, I am different! The Tattoo screams, I am tough! The Tattoo may also say that the wearer is part of a gang; an underground criminal...
