Body Art Site Map - Body Art
An index of the Bella Body Art content, as compiled by the editor. This site map is an alternate way of browsing the Body Art section, versus the article archive date or title index. - Body Art Site Map - Body Art is a personally written site at ... [... more]
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Temporary Tattoos Explained - Body Art
The big doubt about tattooing comes down to picking a design that you can live with forever. Many people are curious about trying something temporary but are confused just as to how that can be done and and how long the process can be made to ... [... more]
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Memorial Tattoos - Body Art
One of the most popular modern reasons for getting a tattoo is as a remembrance. Making a mark that will last you the rest of your life is a sure way of remembering a person, place or moment. The anti-tattoo debate is traced to wording in the ... [... more]
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Trademark Tattoos - Body Art
I recently received the following question in my email and I thought it brought up some interesting tattoo points. The main way that I would say the law differs is that a tattooist is not attempting to copy the art and say that it is an original ... [... more]
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Hand Tattoos - Body Art
Having tattoos on the hands is one of those things that parents seem to really worry that their kids are going to do. And there are a lot of stigma against hand tattoos in Western culture. Let's take a look hand tattooing. From a practical level, ... [... more]
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Armband Tattoos - Body Art
One of the most popular places to get a tattoo is the upper arm. Talk to any tattoo artist and they'll probably tell you that they do a good number of their business giving people armbands. Let's take a look at what goes into getting an armband ... [... more]
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Hand Tattoos 2 - Body Art
The only part of the body in Western culture that carries more stigma and prejudice than getting tattooed on your face is getting a tattoo on your hands. There are a variety of exaggerated beliefs as well as purposeful plays on those beliefs that ... [... more]
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Foot Tattoos - Body Art
One of the conflicts that people sometimes have with tattoos centers around visibility. Sometimes the tattooed person wishes to keep their ink private and sometimes due to other rules and limitations, they have to keep their ink private. One ... [... more]
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Break-Thru Tattoos - Body Art
Early tattoo designs tended to not be very artistically advanced and appeared more like decals. There were designs that were just "stuck on" to the body. As tattooists gained more artistic training over the years and the myriad art styles of [... more]
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Tribal Tattoo Meanings - Body Art
From time to time, I get questions about tribal tattoo meanings, and they most often sound something like this: The most important thing to realize is that modern tribal-style designs don't have meanings. Most often they are just co-opted art ... [... more]
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Knuckle Tattoos - Body Art
Although there is still a strong prejudice against hand tattoos as somehow being gang-related, the stigma is slowly being lessened as tattooing has continued to grow in mainstream culture. One hand-specific fad that got its started in Western ... [... more]
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Malia's Balance Tattoo - Body Art
Recently I told the story of how I got some Hawaiian rune designs tattooed on my left wrist. That same afternoon my friend Malia got a tattoo too, and here's the story behind that design. As I was wanting to get tattooed and was in a place where ... [... more]
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