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PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not only is it a rubbish tattoo but it must be one of the most offensive
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://ugliesttattoos.com/
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Nail art on display at talon show
If your idea of painting your nails is a quick dab of the polish, then think again.

The extravaganza that is the Tokyo Nail Expo had 50,000 visitors feasting their eyes on the latest in nail art. Its highlight was the Nail Queen 2009 awards ceremony, where Japan showed once again that it remains at the cutting edge of the genre.

Creations on show included an extraordinary montage of tropical flowers and birds painted on long, straight nails. But many were three-dimensional and featured swans, ribbons, hearts, figures and even a bow and arrow. Hello Kitty adorned one pair of hands.

Pop singer Kumi Koda has won the Nail Queen title for the past three years with her over-the-top styles and has now been inducted into the Nail Queen Hall of Fame for her trouble. But this is not just for the girls. Male Japanese stars have also been sporting painted nails – albeit without any Hello Kitty models painted on them.
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Art conservationists cleaned the two angels on the left with traditional restoration methods. They cleaned the one on the right using an advanced laser technique, which produced better results
Tattoo-removing lasers used to lift dirt from great works of art
1st March 2010

A laser technique that removes unwanted tattoos has been used to clean several famous works of art, including wall paintings. The technique removes material from a solid surface by vaporising it with a laser beam. Called laser ablation, it can lift dirt without damaging the underlying surface.

Long used to preserve stone sculptures and metal artifacts, it has now been applied to the delicate wall paintings of the Sagrestia Vecchia and the Cappella del Manto in Santa Maria della Scala, Italy.

Dr Salvatore Siano and Renzo Salimbeni from the Applied Physics Institute-CNR in Italy, described the results in the journal of the American Chemical Society. Dr Siano said: 'This is a more delicate situation than metals or stone as the pigment is much more fragile.'

The pigments of paintings endure laser light better than they do the corrosive and damaging chemicals that have been traditionally used to clean them. Different lasers are used for different paintings because the frequency and the duration of the pulses affect how localised areas are heated. In some cases a long heating can be harmful while a short heating is detrimental in others.

The technique was also used on masterpieces like Lorenzo Ghiberti's gilded bronze panels Porta del Paradiso and Donatello's bronze David. 'This was the first time a well recognised masterpiece was treated with laser cleaning,' Dr Siano said. The team also reported encouraging results of laser cleaning underwater for materials that could deteriorate if exposed to air.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

that's not sexy at all...

no way...

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The world's most tattooed woman
An American with 95% of her body covered with body art has been named the most tattooed woman in the world by the Guinness Book of Records.
28th May 2010
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Julia Gnuse - also known as the Illustrated Lady - has jungle scenes and pictures of her favourite actors and cartoon characters, including the Ginger Rogers, the Beverley Hillbillies, Popeye and Fred Flinstone.

She started covering up her body with the illustrations to tackle a painful condition she suffers from called porphyria, which causes blisters on the skin when it's exposed to sunlight. Although it doesn't stop the blisters occurring, it does cover the scars she is left with.

Revealing her tattoos at a BookExpo in New York, she said every design has been created by the same artist. "I had a friend who is a plastic surgeon, who suggested tattooing my skin to the same colour to the scarring that I had, seeing if we could match my pale-looking skin that I had. That didn't work... so I had the idea of a colourful tattoo. Then I got hooked. I got addicted."

Miss Gnuse said she had been put off medication for her condition because it carries the risk of blindness.

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Mum Kim Mordue uses dead son's ashes in tattoo
A grieving mother will always carry the memory of her dead son – after having his ashes tattooed into her skin.
June 26th 2010
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Kim Mordue has her son Lloyd's ashes mixed with ink and tattooed onto her back by her husband David Kim Mordue has her son Lloyd's ashes mixed with ink and tattooed onto her back by her husband David.

The 50-year-old said: ‘I’ve put Lloyd back where he started – he’s in my body again. As soon as I knew it was possible, I wanted to have the ashes tattoos as a tribute to Lloyd.’ The designs, by her tattoo artist husband, show a cabala tree, an angel releasing a butterfly and a poem.

Promising rugby player Lloyd, of Llanelli, south Wales, collapsed during a night out in 2007. An inquest heard he had taken the party drug GHB.

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At first I thought it was a bit strange, but now it strikes me as a nice idea.
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Horned death metal fan tries to run over landlady
Horns, tattooed eyebrows and earlobe implants were among the 'personal oddities' noted by police on Jesse Thornhill's arrest sheet after the 28-year-old fitty allegedly tried to run over his landlady with his people carrier.

Officers were called to a disturbance in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after receiving reports of a late-night altercation involving the fetching death metal fan. They were told he'd attempted to run over his landlady after an argument, using his vehicle as a 'dangerous weapon'. The landlady managed to jump out of the way of the people carrier.

He was found and arrested a few hours later, spending the night in Tulsa County Jail before being released on bail of $10,000. Jesse's horns, lest you were wondering, were created via Teflon implants that are inserted to stretch the skin. To sport a pair the size of the alleged road demon, however, a number of further procedures are necessary to accommodate the larger horns.

On his Facebook page, young Jesse lists the band Nassau Chainsaw DisGraceLand Demolition Committee as one of his favourites. That would be the group whose live performances feature industrial demolition, copious pyrotechnics and a man swinging from a rope via hooks through the skin on his back, then.

What. A. Catch.
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An artist displays her makeup at the 2010 Taiwan International Tattoo Convention in Taipei


Fans dress up for Comic-Con International in San Diego
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The nail olympics: An unvarnished look at Britain's most bizarre contest
David Wilkes
24th September 2010

The tension is palpable inside the packed arena. At stake is not just personal honour, but national pride, too. Team-mates huddle together as they psych themselves up before each demanding category, their faces wracked with concentration. Some 354 competitors from 24 countries are here, record numbers, and they’ve been in training for years to claw their way up the rankings.

‘This is one of the most important competitions in the world. You come to demonstrate your skill and show what your country can offer,’ says Carmelina Gandolfo, 32, from the Italian team, summing up the sense of occasion. 'There is rivalry because everyone thinks he is the king. It’s normal. People don’t speak to each other before the event and there a lot of nerves. But afterwards, we are friends and talk.’

Welcome to Nailympics 2010, the self-styled ‘Olympic Games of fake nails’. Here, once a year, the world’s top manicurists battle it out for medals in gruelling events such as ‘fibreglass tip and overlay’, ‘gel sculpture’ and ‘fantasy nail art’.

Exotic fingernails first came to most people’s attention in the 1980s via the world-record breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, better known as Flo-Jo. The late U.S. athlete sported 6in talons, and at the 1988 Olympics she patriotically painted them red, white, blue — and gold to signify her goal. At its most basic level today, nail art involves glueing artificial acrylic pieces onto natural nails and then painting them. More exotic methods of decoration include airbrushing the acrylic nails and embedding them with tiny gems or trinkets.

This is what the ‘fantasy nail art’ category is all about at the Nailympics, and it’s an undoubted crowd-pleaser — an explosion of creative madness where artists build whole scenes on their models’ fingers. Fairies, forests and angels are favourite designs, but some cute Beatrix Potter characters also put in an appearance this year.

They all look a bit bonkers to the uninitiated and are, by any measure, totally impractical. Not only are the lovingly crafted figurines so fragile you would knock them off in seconds if you tried to wash the dishes, but you also risk electrocution with some of the more elaborate designs, which feature flashing lights and revolving pagodas discreetly wired up to batteries strapped to the wrist. But according to the organisers, the techniques involved in making these amazing flights of fancy ‘feed down to everyday nails’, so it’s not really that silly at all.

‘It may look ridiculous,’ one judge explained, ‘but no more so than some of the clothes you would see at a high fashion show in Paris. It displays a mastery of the nail technician’s craft.’ In comparison, most of the other ­disciplines, while undoubtedly also requiring great skill and artistic flair, are not particularly enthralling as spectator sports.

The competitors sit hunched over desks, building and painting perfect, long nails. A miniature flag denoting the competitor’s country stands on each desk so you know who to cheer for. They work with an array of liquids, powders and paints which fill the air with pungent chemical aromas (some competitors even wear paper masks over their mouths and noses). They compete not just against each other but also against strict time limits.

Few people outside the nail industry — apart from the busloads of visiting student beauticians — have heard of Nailympics, but this is its sixth year. It’s gaining in popularity all the time, and this year was part of the Olympia Beauty Show at London’s Earls Court, which attracted 30,000 visitors. The industry is now worth an estimated £50million a year, and nail technicians can subscribe to their very own dedicated magazine called Scratch.

www.scratchmagazine.co.uk

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"I've always fancied a giraffe on the end of my finger... "

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oh dear...
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Man has ‘mini’ tattooed on penis to win car

Andreas Muller, 39, has gone to extreme lengths to win himself a car - having the word ‘Mini’ tattooed on to his penis. The crazy German decided to have the rather painful tattoo after a radio station ran a competition to win a £20,000 Mini Cooper.

The brief: whoever pulled the craziest stunt to get the car would win. Unsurprisingly, Muller’s offer to have the car manufacturer’s name branded on to his penis topped the list of crazy suggestions. ‘There were a lot of crazy stunts put forward by listeners, but Andreas won by a short head,’ said one of the competition’s organisers.

Radio listeners were then treated to Muller’s cries of agony while the unique piece of branding was created. Muller claims the pain was worth it, saying: ‘Once I’m sitting in the car, it won’t matter anymore. Then the pain will be gone and it’ll be alright.’

It has not been reported whether or not Mr Muller has a girlfriend.

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Inky and perky: But poor tattooed pigs have animal rights campaigners sizzling in anger
16th February 2011

Pigs can expect to be branded, but one farm has turned the process into an art form, decorating them from head to toe with tattoos. Crowds are flocking to Art Farm China in Yang Zhen, Beijing, where Belgian artist Wim Delvoye displays his colourful sows and boars. The animals are still on display to farm visitors while they are anaesthetised and decorated with designs by Wim and his co-artists.

One super-trendy porker even features a Louis Vuitton logo – which presumably quickens the process on the handbag production line. Others sport tattoos inspired by patterns found on Russian prison inmates. But animal rights campaigners complain that the pigs are suffering unnecessarily and are being abused for improper commercial gain. They also strongly object to a controversial 'adopt a pig' scheme that allows sponsors to have an animal stuffed, get a tattooed hide to hang on a wall, or even have it stretched over canvas.

Pictures, however, seemingly show the pigs enjoying the high life at the farm as they roll in mud and snuffle in the undergrowth in the woods. Visitors get to stroke the pigs - and get a close-up of Wim and his team's colourful designs - as they snooze the day away. Up to three tattooists apply a tattoo at the same time to ensure they get plenty of work done while the pig is under anaesthetic. Each pig is assigned a carer whose job it is to moisturise the skin, keeping the tattoo in good condition.

Wim, 46, from Gent, Belgium, said: 'Instead of producing art I wanted to harvest it. 'The pigs are a nice allegory that makes us think about what art means to us, and where the line exists between what art is and what art isn't.'

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An allegory? They're shit tattoos which must cause extra stress to the animals. Arseholes.
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These are quite good, but the prices are crazy
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