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The mind boggles.... You really have to click read more to see the world's worst tattoo...

A Toronto man has been the first to get an eyeball tattoo. Basically, he has turned the whites of his eyes blue.

Introducing the world first eyeball tattoo....ouch!

Fans celebrate their devotion to Peanuts in all sorts of ways ... some of them more permanent than others! If you've got a Peanuts tattoo, send along a scanned image with your first name, and we'll display it here.

And because it's a family-friendly website, they would like to keep it clean. Which makes me wonder on what kind of places on a body you can find peanuts tattoos that are not safe for children. Lucy on your dick? Charlie Brown mowing your pubic hair? Snoopy flying his airplane into a dark hole?

Here are some pictures of Christina Ricci’s wild tattooed past making an appearance at the premiere of Penelope, which is the gayest sounding name for a fucking movie that makes me want to take up ballet or sucking dick in back alley’s or something…

I guess the most unfortunate thing about these pictures of Christina Ricci is knowing the she had a breast reduction a couple of years back because if she hadn’t she probably would have had an easier time filling out this dress.

Here is Tera Patrick at the grand opening of Mario Barth's Starlight Tattoo at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, February 16. And what can we say about her tattoos? click read more

A collection of bad tattoos.... Where do they create such a bad tattoo?

Not all tattoos are purely visual. Some of them – so-called “Braille tattoos” – have another dimension (literally) that allows people who understand Braille to touch them and read them in a purely tactile way. I’ve seen a couple of dozen Braille tattoos in my life. About half of them were conceptual, but the rest were functional and readable.

If you want a conceptual ‘Braille tattoo’ then a simple ink tattoo will be fine. Someone who understands Braille will be able to ‘read’ the dots, but only visually. A blind person won't be able to read them though as although there is some minimal scarring from a normal ink tattoo, it’s almost imperceptible to touch.

Can you imagine waking up to this guy's chest? I identify with the tiny guy trapped inside the monster's maw who seems to be saying "Why, why, why?!"

Lane’s a pretty traditionally manly guy (and comes from Canada’s most manly province), so I guess to compensate he decided to get breast implants.

This holiday season, I can't think of a better way to come home for the holidays than with a brand spankin' new Star Wars tattoo. Oh sure, Mom and Dad might fuss a bit over any old tattoo but the way I see it, if they're gonna kick up a stink, why not give them something to really fuss about! Just in time for the upcoming holidays I thought I'd come up with a list of the Top 10 Craziest Star Wars Tattoos around.

For more than a year, Richmond County investigators posed as employees of the Colur Tyme Tattoo Parlor on Tobacco Road, and made illegal gun and drug purchases.

On Wednesday, the parlor's doors were closed as some of the same people who worked in the store created by the sheriff's office joined federal and state authorities in pre-dawn raids across Augusta. So far, that operation has yielded 71 arrests, at least 43 of which are known gang members, Sheriff Ronnie Strength said.
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Proud Paul, 36, spent a year having the Hogwarts headmaster etched into his skin as a surprise for his five kids.

But the factory worker has been the butt of jokes ever since Harry Potter author JK Rowling revealed last week that Dumbledore was in love with a fellow male sorcerer.

Paul, of Nottingham, moaned yesterday: "It's been terrible. I've always liked Dumbledore – just not in that way.

The growth in the tattoo culture has also led to the growing incidence of using tattoos in creative ways in advertising.

Here are ten ads that use tattoos in interesting ways to help sell their products.

The Best of Tattoo Advertising.

Call me superficial, but I love cute haircuts, hot make-up, and creative tattoos, but lately I've wondered, if you're blind, can you enjoy these very visual things. Well one student has thought up a way where the visually impaired can express themselves through tattoos that can be read. The Braille Tattoo, designed by Klara Jirkova (a student at the University of the Arts Berlin), is a series of implantable surgical steel, titanium, or medical plastic that's placed under the skin.

"Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh" is the first book devoted entirely to typographic tattoos.

It has been called inspiring, shocking, and voyeuristic... Body Type explores the ideas and emotions behind this indelible commitment.
From Shakespeare to Radiohead, from Dante to James Joyce, from celebrations of love to homage and memorial, the wide breadth of messages captured provides insight into the human condition.

A Regent University law student who posted an unflattering photo of Regent president Pat Robertson on his Facebook page has been indefinitely suspended pending a psychiatric evaluation.

Adam M. Key was told by a dean in an e-mail Friday that he was concerned about Key's "emotional well-being" and that several students have recently expressed concern about Key's "interpersonal behavior."

After 15 happy years with his wife, Alan Jenkins decided it was time for the ultimate expression of love.

So, determined to prove his devotion, he had a lifesize image of her face - along with those of their two daughters - tattooed on his back.

The painful procedure took 20 hours and cost £870.

Unfortunately for the besotted Alan, it also backfired on a monumental scale after Lisa, 36, absconded with a 25-year-old Latvian hunk she had met at work.

It's against the law for landlords to discriminate based on the color of a person's skin. But can they reject you because of what's on your skin?

Some San Antonio apartment complexes are refusing to rent to people with tattoos and body piercings. News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Jaie Avila investigates the case of one couple who says that policy is unfair.

A tattoo on her hip. That is what this blonde receptionist wanted, so she went to Happy Valley Tattoo. But she's some sort of softy, considering the noises she makes...

For once, it’s not on a finger! 5ynth3t1c had this silly upper lip tattoo done by Jay at Custom Creations in Danielson, CT.

Pregnant women already have plenty to worry about. But now some doctors are pointing to another potential problem: tattoos.

The issue is whether it's safe to stick a needle through a tattoo in the lower back for an epidural -- an injection of painkilling medicine that can ease the discomfort of labor.

There has been an explosion in recent years in women's lower-back tattoos -- often ornate designs that take up a lot of surface area near the vertebrae where epidural needles are typically inserted.

Laura Hathaway initially had no regrets after getting a tattoo on her lower back when she was 21. But now, 10 years later, she wants it gone.

The pharmaceutical sales representative from Atlanta, Georgia, says it doesn't fit in with her current lifestyle as the mother of a 2-year-old boy who just started to talk. "The other day I bent over and he said, 'What's that?' and it just confirms why I'm having it removed."

Dr. Karempelis says that in spite of the drawbacks, "business is booming." He and three other dermatologists in his office see more than 30 patients a day who want tattoos removed by laser.

Television is perhaps the most lowbrow of all the mass communication mediums. Despite a wealth of high-caliber programming in recent years, the small screen isn’t thought of in the same regard as music, film and literature. This is probably true because television is free (tell that to my effing cable bill!). Everyone watches the boob tube, as it is truly the everyman’s medium. With the fall TV season upon us, why not combine one lowbrow art form with another — the tattoo. But don’t get the wrong idea — we’re not passing judgment here. We love both forms equally.

Via Neatorama

A tattoo-covered Coney Island side show performer who specializes in eating nails says he's found a new calling: becoming a lawyer. "I know it sounds weird, but I want to be a freak lawyer," the man known for 15 years as "Eak the Geek" told the newspaper am New York in an article published Tuesday.

"I hope to have a little office in New York and work with the alternative people, all the so-called riffraff, to give them legal representation that is not judgmental."

"Coney Island was very good to me, but it was just time to go," Eak, 45, whose given name is Eduardo Arrocha, told the paper by phone from Lansing, Mich. "Eak the Geek is the performance, but I'm also a person."

This arm belongs to Joe Tamargo, marketing genius, delusional dimwit or both, I don't really know. Some people do tigers, others do Zunes, some Nintendos and even Windows crashes, but Joe gets tattoos of completely unknown sites. We asked him why. Check his explanation and a video with all his body ads.

Right or wrong? Right, yes, yes, yes! No, wrong. I don't know, I'm confused. I shouldn't be attracted to this, but I am. A woman with a moustache, a woman with a moustache tattooed on her finger no less.

No, no, no, this is not a new thing, it has been happening since the age of 13 or so when I started to discover girls and women with those ever so lovely and slight moustaches. Oh yes, there is of course my grandmother's. That prickly tickle that I felt when we greeted each other with that quick little stiff-lipped smack. But that is not what I'm talking about really.

Via Neatorama

Originally intended as a short post about one of the choices below, it quickly became clear that there are some extraordinary human beings intent on changing their appearance permanently for reasons that will forever baffle most people. Whether you agree with it or not, you can’t deny the fact that it’s a fascinating way of life.

Each to his own.

In this almost-anything-goes tourist town where even the police consider body paint as clothing, sounds were coming from a Duval Street shop Wednesday that hadn't been heard within the city for 40 years: the buzz of a tattoo gun.

Tattooing was banned in Key West in 1966, when a Navy commander decided the once-seedy activity was too accessible for drunken sailors.

Among the first to take advantage of Key West Ink's opening: drag queen Inga the Swedish Bombshell.

I personally don’t have any tattoos (the one who wrote that, not me, Attu). I just haven’t found that one piece of art that I can live with for the rest of my life. I do appreciate them however.

So I decided to look for people who were passionate enough about anatomy to actually have a piece tattooed on themselves. Here are some of the interesting specimens I found.

Via J-Walkblog