Body Art

Post by **faceless** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:31 pm

It's not often you see a picture of someone on the street with facial tatooes, but here's two... what a charming couple they make!

Post by **faceless** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:57 pm

The Mexican 'vampire mother' with titanium horns and tattoos on every inch of her body
5th April 2011

She was a trained lawyer from a deeply religious family who married at the age of 17. But Maria Hose Cristerna, a 35-year-old mother of four from Mexico is known as vampire woman after becoming a tattoo artist and taking her body art to the extreme. She says she turned to body art after suffering years of domestic abuse.

She has tattooed almost 100 per cent of her body, had titanium 'horns' implanted into her skull and dental implants that give her 'fangs'. 'The horns I have are a symbol of strength and were implanted without anaesthetic. I had the fangs done because I loved vampires as a little girl and I changed the colour of my eyes so they were how I really wanted them to be,' she told the Sun.

She showed off her looks at a tattoo exhibition in Monterrey, California. But her transformation is not complete. She says she wants to have more titanium horns implanted in the back of her head

She claims to live a 'normal life' at her home in Mexico.

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run awayyyyyyyyy!!

Post by **faceless** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:52 pm

Tattoo formula forecasts ageing of body art
Mathematical model uses the way dye moves over time within skin to predict how a tattoo will blur and fade
Emine Sinmaz
guardian.co.uk,
28 April 2011

It may be small comfort if you wake up after a heavy night with a hazy memory and some unsuitable words tattooed across your shoulder, but it is now possible to predict what a piece of body artwork will look like in years or decades hence.

A mathematical model uses the way dye moves over time within skin to predict how a tattoo will blur and fade. The tool may also be some comfort to the handful of celebrities sporting misspelled tattoos in foreign languages. The footballer John Carew can look forward to the day that his "my life, my menstruation" tattoo, which was supposed to read "my life, my rules" in French, will be illegible. Britney Spears, who sports a Chinese tattoo that was supposed to say "mysterious", but instead reads "strange", may be keen to find out when hers will fade.

Tattoos are created by puncturing the skin with a steel needle up to 3,000 times a minute and depositing a drop of insoluble ink into the dermis with each puncture. The indelible markings are not resistant to the effects of ageing, however, and over time the ink particles disperse as the cells that contain them either divide or die and exit the body.

How quickly an image will degrade depends on factors including the tattoo size, detail, location and exposure to the sun. Skin type, age and dye ink will also influence how a tattoo disperses.

Ian Eames, a reader in fluid mechanics at University College London, who has published details of the model in Mathematics Today and , said small details in a tattoo were lost first while thicker lines were less affected, and larger tattoos fared better in appearance than smaller ones. The details of complex patterns are lost after about 10 years.

Eames's model enables him to estimate the movement of ink particles and predict how a particular design will change with time. "The dye spreads in some sense like heat spreading along a metal bar. But the rate of spreading is very, very small and takes many years to spread a few millimetres," he said. This may come as a surprise to the growing number of human canvasses in the UK. Tattoos have become more socially acceptable, with the likes of Samantha Cameron sporting a dolphin on her ankle, and a fifth of all British adults now have tattoos.

Post by **faceless** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:51 pm

The Yakuza

Post by **faceless** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:27 am

Superfan tattoos Justin Bieber's lyrics on leg
The 24 year old hoped that her tattoo would prove her dedication to music, thus landing her VIP tickets offered by MTV to the most devoted fan

Post by **faceless** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:20 pm

Tatt-poo for cheating
Artist inks excrement on wayward lover's back
29 Nov 2011
thesun.co.uk

A FURIOUS woman is suing her ex-boyfriend after he tattooed a steaming poo on her back. Rossie Brovent wants £60,000 in damages from Ryan Fitzjerald. Rossie, from Dayton, Ohio, US, wanted a scene from the Narnia trilogy inked on her back. Instead she was left with a pile of excrement with flies buzzing around it.

Tattoo artist Ryan turned rogue after discovering that Rossie had cheated on him with his best friend. Rossie originally tried to have her ex-lover charged with assault but she had signed a consent form agreeing the tattoo design was "at the artist's discretion".

She said: "He tricked me by drinking a bottle of cheap wine with me and doing tequila shots before I signed it and got the tattoo. Actually I was passed out for most of the time, and woke up to this horrible image on my back."

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that's pretty bad, but also pretty funny...

Post by **faceless** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 6:14 pm

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs fan gets ENTIRE CAST of Disney film tattooed on her back
Maysa Rawi
3rd February 2012

A Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs fan has paid the ultimate tribute to her favourite film - by having the entire cast of characters etched on her skin. Annfaye Kao, 27, from Taichung, Taiwan, had the intricate art work inked across her whole back in a marathon three month tattoo session. The colourful patchwork of cartoons was inspired by a dream she once had about the fairy tale.

Sporting blue-hair and scarlet lips, Snow White forms the centerpiece while prince charming and evil Queen Grimhilde hover above. Professional tattoo artist Ping meticulously drew and then coloured in the incredible work depicting scenes from the infamous Disney animated movie. The seven dwarves can also be seen happily - except Grumpy - enjoying the rolling green countryside.

And the impressive ink work has even notched Annfaye an award at an international tattoo convention in Singapore. She said: 'It took three months to finish it as it was so detailed. It hurt really badly to get a full one on my whole back. At times I was in such pain that I wanted to hurry it up, but luckily I didn’t give up and got it finished.

'I got an invite shortly afterwards to a tattoo exhibition and of course I came first in the best tattoo competition.' Annfaye - who says Snow White is her favourite ever movie character of all time - said: 'The motive for the tattoo started in a dream. It reminded me of my childhood and my love for Snow White as she is so beautiful. 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.'

And Annfaye is adamant her friends and family fully support her. She added: 'Everyone loves it, which makes me feel lucky to have so many understanding and supportive people around me in life. I don’t have a boyfriend but if I was to begin dating I would love him to accept what I have had done and respect my passion for tattoos. If they can’t accept it then we won’t really be compatible people.'

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Post by **faceless** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:29 pm

ROCK ONNNNNNNN!!!!!!

gordonrussell · Post by **gordonrussell** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:34 am

Removable 'tache-art

Post by **faceless** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:26 am

Criminal with a tattooed EYEBALL arrested for 'shooting at police officer'
15 September 2012

A heavily tattooed man who admitted robbing homes and stealing cars to fund his heroin habit has been charged with shooting at a police officer. Jason Barnum was arraigned on one count of attempted murder in the first degree and two counts of assault in the third degree after the incident at Merrill Field Inn in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday.

The 37-year-old, whose face is covered with skulls and skeletons, lips are rimmed with skeletal teeth and right eyeball is tattooed black, was swaying from side to side in court, at times hitting his face on the microphone.

Post by **faceless** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:37 pm

A tattooed woman in Myanmar (Burma). The practice of tattooing the faces of women in the Chin state has now come to an end, with only a few last remaining generations of tattooed ladies existing today

Post by **faceless** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:15 pm

Is human branding an animal-rights stunt too far?
In an attempt to highlight the pain experienced by dairy cattle, protesters are allowing themselves to be branded with the number 269. But is it even legal?
guardian.co.uk
21st January 2013

Animal-rights protesters have long been masters at courting both attention and controversy in their quest to put an end to what they perceive as cruel farming practices. Becky Folkard, a 34-year-old vegan from Hampshire, is promising to perform the latest form of protest today at a staged event in London where she will "hot brand" three fellow protestors to highlight the pain inflicted on dairy cattle when they are branded.

Folkard will burn the number "269" on the bare chests of three volunteers – two anonymous women and a 24-year-old protestor called Ben Hannah – using a red-hot branding iron. This form of action originated in Israel last year when protesters released a video of volunteers being branded with the number 269 – in tribute to a calf they encountered on a farm. The idea has now spread virally across the world culminating in a global "We All Are 269" day, with events planned in cities including Melbourne, Frankfurt, Lima and Washington DC.

"My initial reaction was admiration," says Folkard. "I don't see it as shocking, although I accept others will. I immediately wanted to be involved and thought: 'I couldn't do the branding, that sounds terrifying.' But then I thought about it more and realised why not? ... If one person goes away and researches a vegan lifestyle because of this it will have been worth it."

There still seems to be some confusion about whether this form of protest is legal. The protestors insist it is legal because all the participants have consented and they say they have informed the police in advance. An RSPCA representative told reporters: "A lot of people would feel that what they are doing is extreme but if they want to do it they can."

But Joseph Keating, the National Farmers Union's livestock adviser, was perplexed by the planned protest: "I've never seen hot branding done in this country. It has been outlawed for a generation. I've only seen it in old western films. Cattle are now identified with ear tags from birth, as are sheep. They are applied with plier-like tools. There's no anaesthetic but the process is very quick and the animal barely notices. It's just like an ear piercing. Pigs get 'slapped' with an ink mark, but again, this is only momentarily painful."

Some dairy farmers might freeze-brand their animals, says Keating – a process that kills the hair follicles or the skin's pigmentation cells rather than deeply scarring the skin itself – but many farmers are now turning to neck or foot collars with electronic chips inside to more accurately monitor and manage their herds.

"Hot branding stresses the animal needlessly and also potentially damages the meat," he says. "It was introduced many centuries ago to guard against rustling. But we've moved on a bit since then."

Post by **faceless** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:16 pm