Off Beat

Weekend Update: Tattoo Conventions & Events – Nov 12 & 13

:: The Vienna Tattoo Convention, Archotel Wimberger

:: 5th Tattoo & Piercing Expo Eggenfelden, @ the Rottgauhalle, Germany

:: 2nd Internationale Tattoo Convention Slovakia, Bratislava

:: Del Mar Fairgrounds Tattoo Expo, San Diego

:: Saint Louis…

Ink on the Rocks Tattoo Convention

All those who want to try out something different this weekend, the first Durban Tattoo Convention can add some zing to their search of a high. The skin art world will be at its full flow on both days, Saturday and Sunday at the Wavehouse, Gateway…

Hollywood bloodsucking tattoos

Dress up your skin with the garlic paste and your neck with the Cross. Count Dracula is here to whet his teeth. If this is not enough to give your hairs the required jolt, Dr. Hannibal will give you company. Just enjoy it.

$700,000 Jailhouse tattoo program

I never imagined that the art will take this shape in times to come. Inmates of six Canada prisons can now enjoy safe, clean and hygienic tattoos with the implementation of a new $700,000 program. It’s an excellent idea which will save a lot of money in..

Iranian Basketball Federation bans tattoos

Following NBA the Iranian Basketball Federation has also banned its players from tattooing their skins, but for different reasons.

“It has been noticed recently that some basketball players are copying foreign players and having themselves tattooed …..

Wuppertaler Tattoo Convention

Watch out for the 6th Wuppertaler Germany Tattoo Convention, Germany on 12th and 13th of November 2005. The convention is organized by Horst, Tattoo4you, Wuppertal & Mo’s Tattoo Solingen.

Know More>>

Tips: Tattoo aftercare

A fresh tattoo is a wound and demands special attention in the initial few weeks or till the wound is completely healed. Here are few things you should avoid, just after getting a tattoo:

1. Do not re-bandage your skin.
2. Do not apply any…

Almost Skin: ‘Tattoo practice skin’ for budding artists

Practice is what makes a man perfect. As a budding tattoo artist, instead of trying your amateurish hand on the live skin, better try this practice skin. This skin is the closest to the real one. The effect and the output are also just like a real…

The truth behind tattoos and MRI complications

Next time when you go for an MRI, free your mind of any apprehensions and don’t hide your tattoo. Rumors, yes I’ll call them rumors, of people experiencing swelling or burning during a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are baseless.

The quality of the…

IN FOCUS: Henna – The Indian Tattoo Mantra

Henna, also called Mehndi, is the conventional body art that is created with henna paste. The charm of it lies in the fact that it is temporary, painless, time saving, exotic, and colorful. Apart form tattooing, henna is also used as skin and hair…

Scroll to Top