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Nowadays, the symbols of Tattoo have become considerably more versatile, with less potential for embarrassment and there is a big variety of tattoo designs:

 * The Tribal Heart: a heart tattoo done in simple black lines, with no names mentioned – is timeless and classy. There are many varieties of tribal heart tattoos. More about tribal tattoos...

    * The Sacred Heart Tattoo: the sacred heart is usually depicted as a flaming heart surrounded by thorns. This Christian symbol stands for the heart of Jesus Christ and the divine love for humanity. Sacred heart tattoos express the wearer's devotion to Jesus Christ.

 

* The Pierced Heart Tattoo: a heart pierced by an arrow stands for romantic love. Cupid (a cherub) shoots people to make them fall in love.

    * Rose Heart Tattoos: hearts and roses are an obvious combination, both being a symbol of love. More about Rose Tattoos...

    * The Broken Heart Tattoo: usually signifies the loss of someone or unreciprocated love.

 

    * Bleeding Heart Tattoo: has the same meaning as broken heart tattoos.

* The Claddagh Heart: the Claddagh is a beautiful symbol that comes from 17th century Ireland. You many have seen the more common ring version, but the images translate very well into tattoo art. The Claddagh heart is a composition consisting of a heart with a hand on either side, or a crown on top of it. The hands denote friendship, the heart love, and the crown loyalty. Women in Ireland would wear the Claddagh ring in their right hand with the heart facing outward when they were ‘available’, then turn it inward when they were betrothed. A Claddagh ring on the left hand means that the woman is happily married. More about Irish Tattoos...

    * The "Realistic" Heart: some heart tattoos display a more realistic human heart, complete with veins. This certainly adds some ‘edge’ to heart tattoo designs...

 

 

 

A sleeve tattoo basically refers to any type of tattoo that completely covers the skin in the mentioned area. Typically sleeve tattoos are done on the arms and they can come in a variety of lengths. A full sleeve tattoo being form the shoulder blade all the way down to the wrist. A half sleeve then is from the shoulder to the elbow and a quarter sleeve is typically from the elbow to the wrist.

 

The word sleeve comes from clothing and it is a direct relation to the area on a shirt you call a sleeve that covers your arms. Therefore a sleeve tattoo essentially covers your arm as a shirt sleeve would. However, in a lot more artistic style and flair!

Half-sleeves or quarter-sleeves are tattoos that cover only part of an arm, usually above the elbow, but can also be found below the elbow. The term "sleeve" implies complete tattoo coverage of a particular area, so a "half sleeve" is a tattoo that covers the entire upper or lower arm. A "quarter sleeve" usually covers the area of skin from the shoulder midway to the elbow.

 

Sleeve tattoos are collaboration between a tattoo artist and customer to demonstrate a personal and unified artistic theme. Other times, a sleeve is created when a person has many smaller tattoos on his/her arm and later has them "connected" with background tattooing to form a sleeve. Pre-planned sleeves generally require many long hours of tattooing and can take weeks, months or years to complete.

 

One way that sleeve tattoos occur is kind of on accident. People start by getting one or two tattoos and they quickly find themselves addicted. They then continue getting tattoos in the area until most of their arm is filled with a bunch of individual tattoos. Often at this point people still want more tattoos so they design a way to connect up all of the individual tattoos into one large sleeve tattoo.

 

 

You have a slew of options when picking out back of neck tattoos. It's too bad that over 90% of you will end up at galleries that only ave basic, generic artwork to choose from. Avoiding this issue is easy, though, especially if you change how you look for artwork galleries. I simple switch can bring you to so many sites that have fresh, original, well drawn back of neck tattoos.

Do you want a cookie cutter tattoo, or do you want something that fits "you"? The choice is very simple for most people, yet many of these same folks are the ones settling on something generic. Why? Because they couldn't find anything better and just gave up! The sad part is that most of these people end up regretting the fact that they ever went to the parlor and got such a generic design tattooed on their body. That's no way to pick out the back of neck tattoos that will be on your skin.

 

A nape piercing is a piercing through the surface of the nape (back part) of the neck. Nape piercings are a type of surface piercing. They carry a high rate of rejection and migration, unless they are properly measured and placed. They may reject if they are not pierced properly, as they are in a part of the body that moves constantly and are easy to irritate, catching on clothing or other objects.

Being surface piercings, nape piercings require special jewelry to minimize the risk of piercing migration and rejection. Both surface bars and barbells with bars made from flexible material, such as tygon or Teflon, are commonly used as both initial and long term jewelry in nape piercings. More appropriate is titanium, which due to lack of nickel is less prone to irritation of surrounding skin. A quality piercing is done in two steps with different bars, one with long rises (used at time of piercing) to allow for initial swelling, and the second bar (shorter rises with balls a few mm from skin) to be inserted months later once most (if not all) healing has taken place. Other similar jewelry include specially made and bent barbells, which are made either by the piercer or ordered from a dealer

 

Nape piercings, like most surface piercings, are of completely contemporary origin. Numerous urban legends and popular culture myths associate nape piercings with a potential for spinal or nerve damage, due to their location. Nape piercings do not interact with nerve tissue more or less than any other surface piercing, and there is no risk of nerve damage associated with nape piercings. You can get as creative as you can with piercings that is if you are game for all the pain and troubles that follow after.

Nose, Ear, Naval and Nipple piercings may seem very usual… if you want to make a very unusual and unique style statement then you can try a Nape Piercing. It can be located anywhere on the rear of the neck running along the length of the spine.

Like all the other surface piercings the idea is to pierce a place where there is enough tissue to pierce. The Nape piercings are pierced with 1.6mm gauge jewelry common for surface piercings. Surface piercings use jewelry made of a flexible and biologically inert material such as PTFE. It offers best chances at preventing migration and rejection, though both are commonplace with this piercing.

 

An ankle tattoo can be small enough that it is not noticeable unless the person is very close and can be a tribal symbol, a floral arrangement or an initial. Whatever the design may be it depends on the individual choice thus reflecting a part of the personality of the person who has it. Many prefers tattooing small design because they are less painful and at the same time it allows them to carry something personal on their bodies always which cannot be located easily. Many women choose an ankle tattoo because of the fact that it can easily be shown or covered with just a quick change of clothing for instance with socks.  Another more important point to be remembered is that because your ankle is at the end of an extremity, tattoos here may tend to bleed a bit more than in other areas of the body so do not get scare so avoid getting an ankle tattoo right before walking a long distance and elevate your leg in case of swelling irritation or bleeding.

 

tattoos are generally thought of as being any tattoo that is inked on the extreme lower calf, all the way down to the ankle bone. Those tattoos that are done higher on the leg, above the bony part of the ankle (medically known as the "talus") are less painful, and often can be larger in size than the tattoos that take place on the ankle and foot region. This is because the lower part of the leg tends to be fleshier than the foot itself. Tattoos above a certain point on the calf are usually more appropriately termed leg tattoos.

 

One of the most popular tattoos a person can get is the flower ankle tattoo. If this is the design for you, then there are a number of things to consider making the tattoo perfect for you. This kind of tattoo can be incredibly personal and unique but also discreet enough so that it wouldn’t affect your employment or career options. The following are some things to consider if you want to get a flower ankle tattoo done.

 

Tattoos were earlier thought to be for big and robust men but gradually with time tattooing has entered the mainstream of fashion and is now equally preferred by both the sexes. Tattoos have undergone several changes with time but the idea of having a permanent mark on the body still remains to be appealing to many people

 

 

 

Today, lasers are the most common method of tattoo removal. They work by targeting the ink with pulses of highly concentrated light that break the ink into tiny fragments, which are then cleared away the your own immune system. However, this isn’t all done with just one treatment. The more treatments you have, the more the laser can penetrate to destroy the ink. But, the more treatments you have, the more damage you do to your skin, causing painful blisters and scabs that can eventually lead to scarring. Experts in removal therapy say that technology has advanced to the point where scarring is minimal, sometimes non-existant, but this can vary depending on the situation.

There are a lot of reasons for possibly wanting a tattoo removed – the positive element of tattoo removal is that you are no longer burdened with a tattoo you seriously regret. If a tattoo is holding you back from getting a job you want or keeps you from attaining goals you have set for yourself, a little pain and scarring may be worth it to you. If you have a gang-related tattoo and are no longer associating yourself with that gang or any gang (good for you!), it would be in your best interests to have it removed. If you have a tattoo that symbolizes hate or prejudice, I hope that you will decide that it is time to let it go. If you are wearing a tattoo of a past love and now you have a new special person in your life, it would be unkind to your new love NOT to get rid of the old tattoo.

 

the principle of selective thermolysis can be applied towards the removal of tattoos. The energy delivered by a number of different lasers is targeted towards the carbon particles or dyes that are found in skin tattoos, allowing selective destruction of the foreign pigment while minimizing damage to the surrounding skin.

Lasers may be used on professional, amateur, cosmetic, medicinal, and traumatic tattoos. The different colors present in the tattoos may respond differently to laser tattoo removal. Lasers offer a non-invasive and effective treatment for unwanted tattoos

Usually, a topical anesthetic is applied approximately 40 to 90 minutes prior to your session, making the procedure much more comfortable. In some cases, an injectable local anesthetic may be used, or in rare instances an oral sedative may be prescribed to be taken beforehand. These options should be discussed with your doctor prior to your appointment.

The History of Tattoos goes back many thousands of years and is a very intriguing story. And, there are as many reasons why people get tattooed as there are people who have them.

There are many reasons why people choose to ink their bodies. Some people do it for personal or relationship reasons, and others do it as an artistic way of self expression. Some people get tattoos just to be cool and others get tattoos to commemorate people, places, and events that they want to remember forever.

Tattoos are permanent unless steps are gone through to have them removed. This is something that many usually people fail to really take into consideration until quite a while after they've gotten their tattoo.

It has been done in cultures all around the world and by many different people for many different reasons. They have been used for various reasons in various cultures, from ancient Borneo to Japan to Greece. They mean different things in different cultures although the methods of application were much different back then than they are todayIn different parts of Asia, tattoos were used for a lot of things as well. Girls were marked when they were of age to be taken and married with a man.

In addition, they were used to signify rankings in life. Those who were slaves were marked differently than those who were in the military or vice versa.

Different Asian countries had different traditions, but most all of them had permanent body markings; although it may have been only a small percentage of that culture.

The ability to tattoo shows some promising things about different cultures. Those who were able to master such a painstaking process in the early beginnings of tattooing, have indeed become the precursors of today's tattoo artists. These ancient Asian peoples were part of the original tattoo history as is evidenced by how far back their art can be traced.

(The Last Kalinga tattooist Whang Od stenciling a new tattoo designs on Elaine Tima with her Kisi in a dark back room at the Batok Festival. Elaine’s father Rufino is a noted Kalinga anthropologist)

High up in the terraced rice fields of the Philippine Cordillera mountains, traditional tattooing (batek, Kalinga) among the former headhunters of northwestern Luzon is nearly extinct. Today, you can only see traces of the indelible art in its entire splendor among the Kalinga and maybe one or two other groups living in the area. But back in 1900, just before American authorities outlawed headhunting, tattoo was to be seen everywhere, especially among the Bontoc Igorot, Kalinga, and Ifugao peoples.

Asia is an extremely complex mosaic of intertwined cultures - some going back into the mists of time. If we look close enough, we do find that these ancient cultures have left their mark in subtle ways on existing Asian populations. Rather than looking at the present day dominant population groups, relic populations may show us a much clearer picture of Asia's past.

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variety of techniques are being used for piercing ears. There is a ‘do it yourself’ method which uses household items such as ice as local anesthetic, a sewing needle to make a hole, a burning match and rubbing alcohol as disinfectant and semi-soft object such as potato or eraser as a push point. This is a crude method which has been followed for many years. However ear piercing guns which became available for physicians are being used for ear piercing on commercial basis

 

 

Placement is probably the most important issue with a body piercing. Consider where you want to be pierced, and think about the implications. A facial piercing such as eyebrows, nose, and around your lips piercing, for example, may bar you from employment in some locations. It will also result in social difficulties, because of perceptions about pierced people. Whether or not you find these facts troubling and repugnant, they are facts, and you should take them into account.

 

After care facial piercing

The use of sterile cotton, cotton gauze or other disinfected material should be used for cleaning from the second night onwards. You should exercise caution while removing any trickle from the skin in the vicinity of the pierced area. If the piercing has become loose and can be twisted with relative ease, clean the different sections at a time, while rotating it through the pierced area. This has to be done to ensure that the entire surface of the piercing has been properly cleaned.

The curing of an ordinary wound and the healing of a facial piercing is significantly dissimilar. For a normal wound the body simply has to restore and rejoin the injured tissue, but with facial piercing, this process is made difficult by the presence of an unfamiliar substance, the jewellery, a facial piercing can take a number of weeks or even months to heal. The healing process commences soon after the piercing is done, with the cells moving from the border of the wound together until they join.

 

 Hair Growth

Understanding how hair grows helps we understand how to keep hair from growing. Each hair is contained in a pilosebaceous unit, which consists of a hair shaft, hair follicle, sebaceous gland, and erector pili muscle. Hair growth and shedding is a continuous cycle through 3 phases. The anagen phase is the growth phase, the catagen phase is a transitional state, and the telogen phase is the resting phase. Hairs spend a variable amount of time in each phase determined by genetics, hormones, and area of the body. Hair in the anagen phase is more susceptible to injury than hair in the telogen phase. All of these factors must be considered when choosing a method of hair removal.

 

Hair waxing: The desire to remove excess or dark hair usually begins in adolescence and seems to continue until the day we die. Whether it is hair on the face, armpits, legs, bikini line, or other body parts, many men AND women are intent upon having the hair on their scalp be the only visible hair on their bodies. With the emphasis on smooth, hairless skin, it is interesting to note that excess hair, especially in men, is still a taboo subject.

Waxing is a method of semi-permanent hair removal which removes the hair from the root. New hairs will not grow back in the previously waxed area for two to eight weeks. Almost any area of the body can be waxed, including eyebrows, face, bikini area, legs, arms, back, abdomen and feet. There are many types of waxing suitable for removing unwanted hair. If waxing is done regularly for several years, permanent hair reduction may be achieved

 

 

It’s the Philippine Independence day today June 12th, 2009. Let’s just pay some respect to the Pilipino tattoo artist out there. This tattoo is good, Filipino tattoo artists are good! It’s a cock fighting tattoo design… This is a traditional cock fighting for Pinoys...

Sabong or cockfight, which is believed to have started during pre-Hispanic era, is a turf of activity for Filipinos where demarcation between the rich and the commoners blurs. A game enjoyed by both young and immemorial, sabong is often tagged as a male-oriented “national past time” in which gamblers and playgoers, regardless of one’s social status, place on their bets in equal amount. Sabong can also be a very good window of Filipinos’ traits, one as being innovative. Slain roosters are either deplumed for feather duster or cooked in different dishes.

No it’s not the grouper fish. It’s the great Lapu-Lapu, then king of Mactan, whom you can see in the middle.

Regarded as the first Filipino hero, Lapu-Lapu is the first native who resisted Spanish colonization by Spanish soldiers when its leader—ironically, a Portuguese—Ferdinand Magellan set foot to the Philippine Islands year 1521. Though the Muslim chieftain was killed along with his men during the Battle of Mactan, he will always be remembered as a hero.

Having sad those, Lapu-Lapu can be seen as a central figure in the official seal of the Philippine National Police. His figure was also use in one of the now-defunct one centavo coins. A type of grouper fish which can only be found in the country is named after him. Believe it or not, but an alcoholic drink was also named in his honor.

So when you say Lapu-Lapu, it isn’t only the fish. He’s a hero worthy of admiration…

                        

First called as monkey-eating eagles as they were believed to have preyed on monkeys when first discovered, the Haribon belongs to the Accipitridae family—world’s largest eagle. They can also be compared to human beings sharing the same practice of monogamy. Once paired, they’ll be partners for the rest of their life cycles. Life expectancy for these birds is calculated to be from 30 to 60 years.

 

The symbols on the white triangle of the Philippine Flag are an eight rayed sun and three gold stars.

The Sun: represents the dawning of a new era of self-determination desired in 1897 after the Spanish-American war and the US promise of independence, which was granted in 1946.

The 8 rays: stand for the 8 provinces that rose in revolt against Spanish rule in the late 19th century.

The 3 Stars: represents the 3 principal geographic areas of the country- Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

The red area of the flag: represents courage and bravery.

The blue area of the flag: represents noble ideas.....

 

Filipino tattoo artists considered as one of the best tattoo artist in the world... They also do it painlessly (Tattooing)...