Lots of children love Disney princesses, but most of them kind of grow out of it. But not Annfaye Kao, 27, of Taichung, Taiwan.

Annfaye loves Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs so much that she got the entire cast tattooed on her back.

'As a child I used to imagine I was Snow White in a fairytale so it seemed like a good thing to have tattooed on my back.

'Snow White is a part of my childhood and therefore me, so I’m happy I will have it on me forever - it reminds me of my princess dream.'

The Daily Mail has more photos (some NSFW): Link

What Disney movie would you have tattooed on your back? Sadly, I think only Dumbo would have enough heft to fill my backside.

The first fossil of Archaeopteryx was a single feather–the one that Carney has turned into a tattoo. It was discovered in 1861 in a limestone quarry near the town of Solnhofen and brought to Hermann von Meyer, one of Germany’s leading paleontologists at the time. As scientists would later determine, this exceptional feather was 145 million years old. Despite its antiquity, the feather looked much like the feathers on the wings of living birds.

The fossil was so extraordinary that Von Meyer wondered if some forger had etched it. After all, Solnhofen limestone was prized for making finely detailed lithographic prints. But then von Meyer compared the slab and the counterslab and found them to be identical.

Now 150 years later, we know a lot more about the Archaeopteryx and how it fits in the evolution of dinosaurs to birds. Read how many of these discoveries came about at The Loom. Link

Scientists are no exception, and they’ve joined the geek nation in adorning themselves with symbols of their passions in life, choosing imagery with a scientific edge in their body art compositions.

Check out the particularly good examples at the Popsci gallery link below, maybe you’ll be inspired to get some ink of your own.

Link –image from SCIENCE INK by Carl Zimmer. Published by Sterling Publishing © 2011

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Tattoos. Nowadays, we see them everywhere we look. Movie stars, athletes, singers, and even (albeit rarely) the occasional politician proudly sports his or her special “tats.”

In 1862, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), the son of Queen Victoria, became the first “famous” person to receive a tattoo. The prince’s tattoo was a Jerusalem Cross he got when he visited Jerusalem. It is rumored that even Queen Victoria may have had one (heaven forbid!).

Even some of our US presidents have been tattooed. Although no president has been “officially verified,” both Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt reputedly had tattoos of the Roosevelt family crest on their respective persons. Various sources say George W. Bush has a tattoo, either on his arm or his back.

Probably the most popular tattoo for Hollywood celebrities (especially women) is the “star” tattoo. Drew Barrymore, Lindsay Lohan, Kate Hudson, Pink, Kelly Osbourne, and Britney Spears all have stars (Bruce Willis has one, too). OK, let’s take a look at 16 other people who had or have tattoos

Thomas Edison

“The Wizard of Menlo Park” had three dots tattooed on his right hand, in the form of the dots on the face of a die. Edison also invented electric tattoo pens in 1876, under the official name “Stencil-Pens.” It was the predecessor to the later “tattoo machine.”

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston proudly sported an anchor tattoo on his right arm. And why not? His mother, Jennie Churchill, had a snake tattoo encircling her wrist.

John Wilkes Booth

When John Wilkes Booth was a young man, he gave himself a homemade tattoo. Young John drew his initials “J.W.B.” on his right hand with a strong Indian ink. The initials remained on his hand for the rest of his life. When Booth was shot on April 26, 1865 after assassinating president Abraham Lincoln, his body was identified and verified by the tattooed initials.

Rowland Macy

Ever wonder why your local Macy’s department store’s insignia is a star? When founder Rowland Macy was working on a whaling ship in Nantucket as a teenager, he got a star tattoo on his right hand.

Ringo Starr

Which Beatle had a tattoo? A nice bar bet question. If you guessed Ringo, you would be correct. The Beatle drummer has a half-moon and shooting star tattoo.

Senator Barry Goldwater

The “Father of Modern Conservatism” had a small tattoo on the underside of his left hand. It was a crescent moon with four dots, the sign of the Smoki people. The Smokis are an adult Boy Scout-type organization based in Arizona.

Josef Stalin

Stalin (fittingly enough) had a “death’s head” tattoo across his chest.

Oliver Hardy

The “fat one” of the classic movie comedy team Laurel & Hardy had a tattoo of a leaf on his arm. You can actually spot it in the L&H movie One Good Turn. Hardy got the tattoo as a young boy and he always regretted it.

Charles Manson

Serial murder Charles Manson has tattoos on both forearms. He also has a swastika carved into his forehead between his eyes.

Michael Phelps

The world’s greatest swimmer, winner of a record 8 gold medals at the Olympics, Michael has two tattoos just below his pelvis bones. One is the Olympic rings and one is the letter “M” which stands for Michigan, the state where he trains.

Michael Jordan

Tattoos are almost too common on current NBA players. Michael Jordan, the greatest hoopster of all time, has a fraternity tattoo in the shape of the Greek letter omega on his chest.

Johnny Depp

When he was dating Winona Ryder, Depp had “Winona Forever” tattooed on his upper right arm. After the two split, he had the “NA” lasered off so his tat reads “Wino Forever.” Johnny has 13 verified tattoos on various parts of his body.

Charlie Sheen

By a strange coincidence, Charlie too has 13 verified body tattoos. His latest? “Winning” on his left wrist (what else?).

Sideshow Bob

Bart Simpson’s arch-nemesis on The Simpsons, Bob has “Die Bart Die” and “Ouch, Man!” (Bart’s head on a skateboard). He also has a skull and crossbones, plus “LUV” one one hand and “HAT” on the other.

David Spade

David has a tattoo of “Calvin” of the popular comics strip Calvin and Hobbes (it was done by Sean Penn).

Barbie

A Barbie doll a while back had a butterfly tattoo on her stomach. “Totally Stylin’ Barbie” came with her own tattoo machine.

See also: The Hidden Meanings of Tattoos

The woman that has everything has finally got inked. The tokidoki Barbie Doll by Simone Legno is the first ever tattooed Barbie to hit the streets ... er, collectors' shelves. Rage of conservative parents in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

Via Nylon Blog

Tattoo by Jon L. of Big Deluxe of Salt Lake City, Utah

I bet this won the Best Decapodian Icon tattoo of all time. Behold, the Virgin Zoidberg tattoo. Don't have one yourself? How toe-tappingly tragic! Link - via davelog

Who says internet memes don’t last? Some people have the most fleeting memes tattoos on their bodies. Imagine trying to explain to your grandchildren why those things were so important to you that you had them permanently inked into your skin. Ranker has a list of ten memes, some with more than one tattoo found. A couple pics are NSFW. Link

What better way to comemmorate your love of optical illusions than to get it tattooed on your back? Our own Jill Harness wrote the definitive Top 10 Optical Illusion Tattoos over at Mighty Optical Illusions blog: Link – via Rue The Day

Is this real or just clever advertising? Ballantine’s, a brand of blended scotch whiskies, has a “leave an impression” tagline, which is just what Marco did by getting a QR code tattoo. On the heels of hoax by the woman who claimed she got tattoos of all of her Facebook friends’ profile pics, many people are doubting the authenticity of this one. What do you think?

Link via the Des Moines Egotist

So it seems Susyj87′s briefly infamous Facebook friends tattoo was a hoax. Not only was the tattoo a fake (a transfer that only lasted a few days), but the video itself was a promo piece for a company called Pretty Social that makes custom gift items using your Facebook photos. As much as I hated the idea of a woman walking around with 152 faces permanently stamped on her arm, I hate this even more.

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Sigh. Why are people so weird? This woman got a massive tattoo of 152 of her nearest and dearest Facebook BFFs’ faces tattooed on her arm. As in, permanently etched onto her body. I hope none of these people are fair-weather friends; how does one unfollow a face inked into their skin?

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The hospital has now called police to try to evict Sheng – but he has welcomed the police involvement and asked them to investigate.

“I’m not leaving,” he said. “I’m worried that if I go out for even half an hour, the hospital will claim I had the tattoo done outside.

“But even if I wanted a tattoo, I wouldn’t want those characters and I wouldn’t want it on that part of my body.”

The hospital staff blames the marks on a possible allergic reaction. Link -via Dave Barry

A wedding ring is symbol of commitment and permanence. A tattoo is commitment and permanence in itself. Some couples are skipping the jewelry in favor of matching or complementary tattoos on the couple’s ring fingers. And why not? You don’t have to remove it to shower, work with machinery, or have an MRI. It can’t be lost or stolen. It will never have to be resized or replaced. And you can design your own unique symbols! See a variety of wedding band tattoos in this list by Shaun Usher. Link

Remember the to-do list tattoo (that’s actually more like a notepad tattoo) we featured before on the blog? Well, Neatoramanaut Stephanie shared her own version here. She said:

I’ve got a to do list tattoo and I love it. It’s actually really useful. I figure that as long as I’m getting tattoos, I might as well have one that’s functional!

Reading Neatorama is curiously absent, but perhaps its so obvious that it doesn’t need jottin’ down Thanks Stephanie!

Update 3/22/11: Ah, that’s better now. Thanks Stephanie!

Photo: robstephaustralia [Flickr]

BTW, Stephanie said: "Tattoo by the wonderful Lelia at The Needle’s Kiss in Townsville, QLD"

Flickr user overdue underdone has his own "Palm Pilot" (shouldn’t that be wrist pilot?) – a practical tattoo of a notebook/to-do list on his left wrist that lets him jot down notes and things to do.

Link – via Oddee, who has a list of other unusually practical tattoos

The Jerusalem Cross and the Dragon: A Royal Fad

England’s King Edward VII started the royal tattoo craze in 1862. During a trip to the Holy Land, the then-Prince of Wales had a Jerusalem Cross inked on his arm. His son, the future King George V, followed in his father’s footsteps and got a dragon tattoo while visiting Japan. Then, on his way back to England, the prince stopped by the same Holy Land tattoo parlor his father had visited and got a Jerusalem Cross of his own. Other royal families soon followed the trend. During the Victorian era, the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, Prince and Princess Waldemar of Denmark, King Oscar II of Sweden, and Queen Olga of Greece all went under the needle.

The Anchor: A Sailor’s ID Card

Nothing says “ahoy!” quite like an anchor tattoo. Popeye has one on each arm, and Sir Winston Churchill sported one on his right bicep. The tried-and-true symbol conveys the bearer’s love for the sea. But in the late 18th century, the tattoo also served a practical purpose. During that time, almost all sailors received a “sailor protection certificate,” which carefully documented the tattoos on their bodies. If a sailor went overboard, the tattoos were a lingering proof of his identity, should the body be recovered. Today, most military navies still catalog their sailor’s body art for the same reason. (Image credit: Flickr user K Sandberg)

The Teardrop: A Prisoner’s Tale

An entire genre of tattoos can be found behind penitentiary walls, and one of the most famous is the teardrop. Until the 1990s, the tattoo typically meant that the inmate had killed someone. But in recent years, the significance of the teardrop has softened. Prisoners get the tattoo to commemorate someone who had died while they were locked away, or simply to represent the time they’ve served behind bars. The design has also ventured outside the prison population in the past few years, although not all that far; you can see teardrops on the faces of rapper Lil’ Wayne and singer Amy Winehouse. (Image credit: Flickr user Photog*Phillip)

Asian Characters: Lost in Translation

If you’re going to get Chinese or Japanese characters permanently inked into your skin, consult someone who reads the language. Basketball player Marquis Daniels of the Boston Celtics thought he’d gotten his initials on his arm, but instead he got a tattoo that reads “healthy woman roof.” And when singer Britney Spears got a tattoo of the Chinese word for “mysterious,” it turned out to mean “strange.”

So why is it so many tattoos get lost in translation? Flash sheets -the patterns used by most tattoo artists- are rarely fact-checked. Instead, they’re passed around informally from one professional to the next. Legendary tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle, who started inking people in 1949, was known for a more cautious approach: He refused to tattoo foreign characters at all. If he didn’t understand it, he wouldn’t tattoo it. (Image credit: Flickr user Bobby Edwards)

Lambda: Gamer Pride

Recently, fans of Half-Life, a computer game series, have begun showing off new tattoos based on the series’ logo -a stylized, lower-case lambda. In the game, the Greek letter symbolizes resistance, but in the wider tattoo community, it signifies something quite different: “I’m gay and proud.” Back in the early 1970s, when the gay liberation movement was still growing in force, the homosexual community adopted the lambda as a symbol of pride.

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When life gives you lemon, make lemonade. How about when it takes away all your hair, except for a little tuft at the back? Well, this guy sure made the best of it!

Find this, and more crazy hairstyles over at Oddee: Link

Three years ago, Kim Mordue lost her son Lloyd to a fatal run in with the party drug GHB. Kim’s husband runs a tattoo parlor, and together they’ve found a way to deal with her grief with ink. Lloyd’s ashes have been mixed with tattoo ink, and used to give Kim a new tat. When asked about the tattoo, she had the following to say:

As soon as I knew it was possible, I wanted to have the ashes tattoos as a tribute to him. Now, he’ll be with me for the rest of my life.

Link | Story by Richard Smith at Mirror

Junior Bio major, roller derby girl and Tumblr blogger iheartar got a new and very cool tattoo. Han would be proud! Link – via DBSW

Oddity Central has a fascinating look at the Thai Wat Bang Phra Tattoo Festival:

Each year, tattooed devotees come to Wat Bang Phra temple, a place famous for its tattoo masters, to pay their respects to the art of Sak Yant, in a special ceremony known as Wai Khru. Attended by tens of thousands of people, the event becomes quite a spectacle when the animal spirit possessions begin.

At one point, a loud and frightening growl is heard from somewhere in that sea of people, but only foreigners seem to react to it. Then monkey sounds are heard, and people start running towards the temple – specifically towards the shrine of Luang Poh Pern, a respected tattoo artist who served at Wat Bang Phra – waving their arms in the air and yelling like crazy. They are in fact being possessed by the animals tattooed on their bodies. If they have a tiger tattoo, they start growling, if it’s a snake, they start crawling on the ground, but eventually they all start running like crazy toward the shrine.

Link (Photo: Paula Bronstein)

These bacon tattoos are so smokin’ hot that you can almost smell the sweet aroma of sizzling bacon. Almost.

Oddee has got the gallery of 12 Craziest Bacon Tattoos: Link | After that, be sure to visit the NeatoShop’s Bacon Store

Keeping that in mind, if it’s not easy no man is ever going to clean, so luckily someone invented paper towel. Leave it to Rockett St George to upgrade even the simplest of manly necessities. These “kitchen rolls” (leave it to the British) are covered with traditional tattoo art. It’s paper towel that looks awesome, what else do you need to know? Except that now, even when you’re cleaning you can feel a little bit more manly.

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Mimi Rosenthal, 101, pushed her Winnie Walker off to the side and sat back in the black leather chair. At 4 feet, 10 inches, her feet didn’t quite rest on the floor. And for her third tattoo, she wanted to be comfortable.

"Let’s find something for your feet," said tattoo artist Michelle Gallo-Kohlas, a longtime family friend entrusted with the honor of inking Rosenthal’s arm.

Several teenage girls’ voices traveled down the hall Saturday afternoon from the waiting room of Requiem Body Art, an upscale piercing and tattoo shop.

"Is she getting a tattoo?"

"Are you serious?"

"That is soooo cool!"

Shary Lyssy Marshall of St. Petersburg Times has the story of this rebel grandma: Link (Photo: Will Vragovic) – via Look At This

Ugliest Tattoos has more: Link – via Great White Snark

Our pal Geeks Are Sexy blog has a nifty compilation of geeky tattoos. I particularly like the one Francis Storr photographed @media 2006 conference shown above. There’s no need to close the tag on love, of course, because love is foreeeeveeerrr!!

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What is it about the fingerstache that captured the fancy of the hip crowd of the web?

Of course, kids have been drawing mustaches on their fingers (or upper lips, much to the consternation of mom) with markers for ages, but the whole fingerstache phenomenon got jump started when a tattoo artist named Giovani of the High Street Tattoo in Columbus, Ohio, tattooed a mustache on a client’s finger as a joke back in 2003.

Fingerstaches started popping up everywhere, and soon enough it became a full-blown Internet meme. There are about 1,500 photos on Flickr tagged "finger mustache," Facebook fan page, and even a social networking site for "fingerstachers."

If you want the hip look without the pain and commitment of a tattoo, you can even get a temporary Fingerstache tattoo, made by our pal Gama-Go, over at the NeatoShop.

It’s a silly phenomenon, which is probably why it is so viral, but it’s not the silliest mustache we’ve ever seen on the web. That title, I believe, currently belongs to this guy:

Since that time, Billy has collected 26 more tattoos from corporate sponsors, including Liberty Tax Service, Host Gator, Grown Up Geek, Cam4 (see video of this tattoo) and a slew of adult sites.

He hopes to go for a Guinness world record for the most corporate logos tattooed on his body. He’s been featured in various print media ranging from Bizarre magazine to the San Diego Tribune. He’s even got his own Facebook fan page, which, from all appearances, wasn’t created by him. He keeps a blog that hasn’t received many updates lately but lists his fees for placement of potential buyers’ logos on his body ($3,000 for a 6-inch by 1-inch chest tattoo, $20,000 for a 6-by-1-inch forehead tattoo).

Joe Peacock wrote this interesting story for AOL News: Link

An anonymous amateur herpetologist sent this picture of her tattoo to Carl Zimmer, who collects science tattoos. The snake is Henry, a North Brazilian Boa constrictor. A tattoo artist inked Henry on the woman’s leg freehand over a 14 month period! Link

The toddler is set to become the world’s youngest tattoo artist after learning the trade from her father, Blane, who runs a tattoo parlour in Wales.

Mr Dickinson, 36, is importing an ink gun from the U.S. that has been specially designed to be used by small hands.

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Mehndi is a decorative art form of South Asia dating back to at least the 12th century, and probably with cultural roots in pharaonic Egypt.  Although the process superficially resembles tattooing, the henna pigment does not penetrate beyond the surface of the skin, and thus is temporary and ideally suited for celebratory events such as weddings.

Henna stains are orange soon after application, but darken over the following three days to a reddish brown. Soles and palms have the thickest layer of skin and so take up the most lawsone, and take it to the greatest depth, so that hands and feet will have the darkest and most long-lasting stains.

Link.  Photo credit Jujuba, via a gallery at Titam et le Sirop d’Érable. There is another gallery at Hulchul.

Ever worried you’re going to lose your sunglasses? Well, don’t worry any more, now you can just get them tattooed to your face – you’ll never misplace them ever, ever again. Lenses not included.

– via inkarttattoos

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Mission.

Aside from their use of the body as a canvas, the students were asked about various aspects of their behavior, including drug and alcohol use, sexual activity and whether they cheat on tests.

The findings revealed "sharp differences in the levels of deviant behavior among those with just one tattoo vs. those with four or more, and among those with just one to three piercings vs. those with seven or more," reports sociologist Jerome Koch, the paper’s lead author. "The level of deviance reported by respondents with low levels of body art is much closer to those with none than to those with multiple tattoos and piercings, or intimate piercings."

"Results indicate that respondents with four or more tattoos, seven or more body piercings, or piercings located in their nipples or genitals, were substantially and significantly more likely to report regular marijuana use, occasional use of other drugs, and a history of being arrested for a crime," the paper continues. "Less pronounced, but still significant in many cases, was an increased propensity for those with higher incidence of body art to cheat on college work, binge drink and report having had multiple sex partners over the course of their lifetime."

Link – Thanks Julia!

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Not for the squeamish.  At first glance, it seems improbable and downright impossible, but inmates are actually attempting to stand out from the crowd by having ink injected into the whites of their eyes.  DamnCoolPics has a bit more information on the procedure:

Because the we had trouble getting the ink under the surface (and were able to “wash” it out of the small needle incisions), we tried the second procedure, on Josh using a 29ga needle and syringe, thinning down the ink very slightly with an antibiotic eyewash. Since the goal was simply to blanket the white of the eye in color, there wasn’t a need for fine detail. The first injection was shallow and appeared to dissipate on the surface, but the second injection was at the perfect level and formed a dark bubble of ink just over the sclera (in the third picture you can see some of the ink running back out of the injection hole).

Link.  (via Cynical-C)

Forget all you know about tattoos: Amanda Wachob will turn your body into a canvas for her abstract tattoos. No skulls, I Heart Mom, or other usual tattoo art here: Link [Flash website] | Gallery at Dare Devil Tattoo

Previously on Neatorama: Yann Travailles’ Crayon Scribble Tattoos

"We were making it look like it was a cross," said Jo-Jo Marsh, "so the kids could have something they could say it was."

Jo-Jo Marsh shows Eyewitness News the tattoo on her son’s hand. The mark is a cross-like symbol left by a home-made tattoo gun with a guitar string as a needle.

"We didn’t even break the skin barely," said Marsh, "they are very tiny, just through a few layers, on the top, they will fade away, that’s how minuscule this is."

Marsh and her husband, Jacob Bartels, face child cruelty charges after detectives found the same mark on six of the couple’s seven children. One of the children is just 10 years-old. [...]

Marsh defends her actions saying the kids were begging for tattoos like hers.

She told [WRCB TV] multiple times during our interview that she changed the needle each time.

Marsh believes as the children’s guardian, she should have the right to tattoo them if she chooses. "Shouldn’t I have say so over what goes on in my child’s life," said Marsh, "I have custody of my child, I’m not going to hurt my child."

Child abuse or simply a mom with a cutting edge sense of style? Link

He said: ‘I don’t mind suffering for a few days if I can let the lads know that people really care about what they’re doing out there, and raise some money for the guys coming home wounded as well.

‘The family thought I was mad to begin with, but they’ve come round to the idea now, and my wife is backing me all the way.’

The married father-of-two from Doncaster hopes his challenge will raise £500 for the charity Help for Heroes.

He plans on updating the sombre list every year on Remembrance Day if required.

Tattoo artist Kevin Kent donated his services free of charge. Link -via Digg

(image credit: Ross Parry Agency)

As a child, Matt spent a lot of time in hospitals – so as an adult, he decided to do an homage of sorts: he got tattoos of the various medical equipments that saved his life!

Helen J. Grose of Viceland blog has the interview:

Vice: What’s with the medical equipment obsession?
Matt: I’ve always liked medical instruments, probably from spending a lot of time as a child in hospitals. I’m not scared of hospitals or their instruments.

Vice: What did you get first?
Matt: I got my diabetic tattoo before I went on holidays to Mexico to traipse around on donkeys. It says “I am an insulin dependent diabetic. If I seem drunk give me sugar.”

Vice: How many instruments have you got?
Matt: I’ve got a tethoscope, reflex hammer, otoscope, sphygmomanometer, forceps, a bone saw, oxygen mask, latex gloves, surgical string, skin grafting razor, trephine skull drill, a medical warning label, and a syringe.

Link – via cakeheadlovesevil

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by cakehead loves evil.

“It was just a fun thing to do,” said Gretchen Hoffmann, 42, who turned up the heat as Miss August 2010 by posing on a row boat, a purple boa strategically draped to highlight the starfish tattoo on her upper back. “I like the idea that the calendars are stereotype-busters. You don’t usually see [librarians] as tattooed and sexy. We’re not the little old ladies who walk around with buns.”

Link to story. Link to website. -via Metafilter

No, not a tattoo though undoubtedly it would make an excellent anatomically-minded example that would rival this famous skull face tattoo we had before on Neatorama. The gruesome painting is actually printed paper by Paris-based photographer Laurent Champoussin.

Vanessa Ruiz of Street Anatomy asked Laurent what inspired his art series titled Cardiovascular Paper:

I’ve always been interested by the écorché model. I was inspired by the classical representations of Andréas Vesalius, Charles Estienne or Adrian Van Den Spieghel. My idea was to play with the partial, the uncovered (open/discover) of an essential part of ourselves. I also wanted to work on the propagation, the invasion. My will was to design the model, to file down it like a texture and I hope, somewhere like a poetry.

More at Street Anatomy Blog: Link | Laurent’s website and blog – via Cakehead Loves Evil

Tattoo artist Yann Travaille has made a name for himself in the over populated
field of tattoo design with his astonishingly refreshing designs normally done with crayons, not tattoo ink.

Check out more of his crayon-like tattoos on his website YOUR MEAT IS MINE (Some images NSFW):

Link – via cakeheadlovesevil

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by cakehead loves evil.

Rouslan Toumaniantz, who runs the tattoo parlour called The Tattoo Box in Courtrai, denies her claim.

He said she knew ‘exactly what she wanted’.

He added: ‘She was awake and looked into the mirror several times as the procedure was taking place.

‘The trouble all started when she went home and her father and boyfriend threw a fit.

‘They are saying things now like I doped her or hypnotised her. What rubbish!

‘She asked for 56 stars and that’s what she got.’

Vlaminck says she fell asleep during the procedure. She is seeking £8,500 to pay for tattoo removal. Link -via J-Walk Blog

Still dazed after being anaesthetised for three hours, a pedigree pet is hauled upright to show off its new tattoo.

The controversial “body enhancement” was carried out on Mickey – a rare Canadian Hairless breed also known as a Sphynx cat.

His female owner was said to be delighted with the Tutankhamun design inked on to his chest at a tattoo parlour.

She said: “I wanted something new and different for the times we live in.”

Horrific or fashionable? What’s your take?

Link – via Arbroath

Previously on Neatorama: Wim Delvoye’s Tattooed pigs

Awesome? Or overkill? Either way, the tattoo artist did a really nice job.

Link

Update 2/16/09 by Alex – Here’s the original link at Gizmodo: Link

The nano ink particles are tiny, squishy spheres about 120 nanometers across. Inside the sphere are three parts: the glucose detecting molecule, a color-changing dye, and another molecule that mimics glucose.
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If the molecules mostly latch onto glucose, the ink appears yellow. If glucose levels are low, the molecule latches onto the glucose mimic, turning the ink purple. A healthy level of glucose has a “funny orangey,” color, according to Clark. The sampling process repeats itself every few milliseconds.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by tempeh.

Although modern technology has evolved to the point where tattoos can be removed, getting one is still quite a major commitment. Despite this, some still choose not only to get tattoos, but tattoos related with pop culture, references whose relevance threaten to fade over time. At GreatWhiteSnark’s blog, there’s a write-up of a gentleman who obtained a spectacular tattoo inspired by the upcoming film, The Dark Knight:

I’m putting out a call for genuinely novel and creative ways for fanboys (and -gals) to express their enthusiasm for the newest Batman film from director Chris Nolan. You could do worse–well, depending on how you look at it–than to take a cue from the dude who emblazoned a tattoo of the Batman symbol from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight across his back, courtesy of Tony Siemer of New Breed Tattoo in Dayton, Ohio.

I’m very much looking forward to the film, and desperately hope that it will be remembered as a modern classic, but what do you think about the idea of getting pop culture tattoos? In particular, in this case, does the tattoo’s associations with the overall character of Batman render it timeless? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Hit the Link for the larger image and GreatWhiteSnark’s always-snarky write-up.

Yet another nerd tattoo. This one in the form of HyperText Markup Language (HTML)