Archive for November 2012

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Tattoo Aftercare Advice

Tattoo aftercare plays an important role in the field of tattooing. Tattoo and tattooing are not just a passion or emotion of individual, but it turns into disaster if you ignore the importance of tattoo aftercare. It is as much important as choosing a right tattoo suitable for your personality. After tattooing as per your expectation the role of a tattoo artist has been finished, now it’s your turn to prevent your tattoo from external infection or any other skin problem.

It is very important to follow some guild lines which I have mention below, at least a week from tattooing.

Never Remove the First Bandage Instantly

It has been found that due to certain excitement of new tattoo, many people remove that bandage which tattoo artist put just after tattooing, I concern you that never do this common mistake. This bandage is for prevention from environment bacteria because a new-made tattoo is like unclosed flesh, and these bacteria attack fast on open wound. I recommend you to keep this bandage at least two hours.

If your tattoo cover-up by saran wrap or some kind of plastic by your tattoo artist, then it is possible for you to remove it after an hour.

Washing a Tattoo

After removal of bandage, you can wash tattoo to remove blood or ink spread around the tattoo, for this use mild warm water or any antibacterial liquid or antimicrobial soap. Do not use rough cloth to wash tattoo, instead of that you can use your fingers, but remind that it should be cleaned by any antibacterial soap.

Products and Lotions 

You can use some well-known products like Tattoo Goo or H2Ocean, but use a single product at one time as per directed until 3-5 days.




About Bathing, Showering, and Swimming after Tattooing
It’s completely OK that you can do bath with new tattoo and get your tattoo wet. Just do not use very hot water to wash tattoo area until 2-3 weeks. Yes, you can swim with new tattoo but keep in mind that only fresh water is allowed, do not swim in salty water at least two weeks.

Protection from the Sun after Tattooing

In the initial days after tattooing try to avoid direct contact with sun rays because ultraviolet rays affects the melanin of skin and results in fading of tattoo colors and cause skin infection as well.












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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Popularity of Tribal Tattoos


The tribal tattoos are mostly very popular among men. It can be available in many designs such as heart tattoo,  butterfly tattoo, back tribal cross tattoos, armband tattoos, dragon tattoos and tribal flames tattoo. While choosing these tattoos by the client these designs are reworked by tattoo artist depending upon shape and muscle flow of individual who interested to bear it.

The popular body parts for tribal tattoos among men are back, arm, shoulder blades and neck; It means that you can flaunt your tattoo almost on every part of your body. Many tattoo artists suggest that tribal tattoos are safe as compared to any other tattoo designs.

In the past, these tattoos were made to express religious or spiritual beliefs, but nowadays it is the symbol of style. The main reason behind the popularity of tribal tattoo is its uniqueness. Patterns can be made as unique as you can imagine, and it is easy to make too.

Many celebrities and Smack Down stars like the Rock, Dwayne Johnson prefers tribal tattoos due to this popularity of these tattoos goes up and more valued. Many people told that there was no exact meaning of each tribal tattoo, in earlier era these tattoos were used to show the difference among tribes and now Maori, Borneon, and Hawaiian tattoo are most popular. These three tribes share almost the same expression on it. These tattoos represent social status, achievements, and family identification.

Check this collection of tribal tattoos for men and I hope you will be agreeing that these tattoos most popular.









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Flash Tattoo for Tattooing

The basic question arise is what is the flash tattoo? And the answer is the flash tattoo are prepared tattoo designs, which are use for rapid tattooing. It has been found that always most of the visitors of tattoo shop attract by tattoo flash, as they are typically displayed on the walls and in portfolios to give customers proper idea of the kind of work, they can receive.

Flash tattoos come with the wide range of designs. It is originally design by the tattoo artist, in particular, shop so that customers could pick a tattoo they wanted. Flash can be very useful when clients want to be tattooed quickly especially designs like stars and flowers.Flash tattoo sheet maintained with full color and shown to clients, when a client decides to use it for his or her tattoo, the artist can copy the linework to transfer paper, which is used to create a stencil on the body of the client before tattooing start.  

As a business point of view now artists started trading flash tattoo with each other and also selling it with different styles and designs across the world. As a result, many companies started hiring tattoo flash designers, who are able to produce huge volume of flash for commercial sale.

I have collected few of flash tattoo designs for my blog, and all these designs by tattoo artist are preserved under copyright law.  








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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Tattoo Fonts for Tattooing


Tattoo fonts in text tattoo play an important role in order to express meaningful sayings to express individual's emotions through their tattoos. Nowadays, text tattoos become trendier because many people choose words, names, short quotes while tattooing.

If you have already decided text tattoo for your body, the next step will be what kind of lettering you would like to apply on your tattoo. All among the tattoo fonts, script fonts are more popular because it looks personal and unique, fonts like calligraphy and handwriting. Apart from this Old English fonts are also used a lot in tattoo designs. Celtic fonts, graffiti fonts, blade fonts, etc. are also more popular tattoo fonts nowadays.

There are lots of resources on the Internet where you would find free tattoo fonts, so I have decided to share popular tattoo fonts on my blog also. If you like any of the fonts here, just right click and save it on your hard drive and enjoy tattooing.







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Laser Tattoo Removal Cost


Nowadays, tattoo removing is the also important factor of tattooing.  Tattoo can be removed by tattoo bearer due to many reasons like change in trend of tattoo designs, sick of old tattoo, need to implement new tattoo on the same part of a body, etc.

Tattoo removal costs are differed with size and location of tattoo on the body surface , in this post I am going to provide average cost of laser tattoo removal  along with the surface of the body  where tattoo is located.

Average tattoo removal costs $49 per square inch in USA. On the other hand,  it may be less or more  depending on the size of the tattoo, with additional fees of tattoo removing surgeon per visit. Tattoo removal cost varies depending upon the factors like where it is located on your body, colors in the tattoo, and more.

Here we have few examples of average tattoo removal cost on the different part of a body in USA.



Location: Hand
Square Inches: 1
Estimated number of Treatments: 12
Average tattoo removal cost per treatment: $98


Location: Back
Square Inches: 1.5
Estimated number of treatments: 11
Average tattoo removal cost per treatment: $98


Location: Neck
Square Inches: 3
Estimated number of treatments: 7
Average tattoo removal cost per treatment: $147


Location: Arm
Square Inches: 2
Estimated number of treatments: 12
Average tattoo removal cost per Treatment: $98


Location: Ring Finger
Square Inches: 1
Estimated number of Treatments: 10
Average tattoo removal cost per Treatment: $98


Location: Lower Arm
Square Inches: 4
Estimated number of Treatments: 7
Average tattoo removal cost per treatment: $196


Location: Upper Back
Square Inches: 6
Estimated number of treatments: 9
Average tattoo cost per treatment: $270




Location: Chest
Square Inches: 3
Estimated number of treatments: 7
Average tattoo cost per treatment: $147




Location: Wrist
Square Inches: 1
Estimated number of treatments: 5
Average tattoo cost per treatment: $98

Location: Shoulder
Square Inches: 15
Estimated number of Treatments: 5
Average tattoo cost per treatment: $445

Location: Abdomen
Square Inches: 2.5
Estimated number of treatments: 7
Average tattoo cost per treatment: $123


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Sunday, November 4, 2012

New York Tattoo Artists Information

After searching about the best tattoo artist in Los Angeles one thought came in my mind that 20% of tattoo bearers in USA are in New York. So I have to include addresses and contact information of New York tattoo artists, without writing about New York tattoo artists the blog of tattooing is useless.

I have researched so much before writing about the New York tattoo artist also checked many forums on the internet and gathered useful addresses and proper contact numbers of tattoo artists in NYC. 

It is my pleasure to find best tattoo artists in NY.  While doing this task, I visited many top websites related to tattooing and found out tattoo artist bio and their popularity in New York.

In this post, I have also covered famous NY tattoos, but before that check out addresses and related tattoo artist's names with their popularity in New York.


Rising Dragon Tattoos

Address: 51 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 255-8288
Hours: Mon-Thu, Sun : 1–9pm
           Fri-Sat : 1–10pm

Tattoo Artists: Darren, Nino, Simone, Wendi, Carlos, IVAN

Red Rocket Tattoo

Address: 78 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 736-3001

Hours: Mon-Sat: 12–8pm
                Sun: 12–6pm

Tattoo Artists: MIKE BELLAMY, ADAM HAYS, VINNY ROMANELLI, KYLE SAJBAN, DANNY MIRRO, MAX SHOBERG, DEREK MARTINEZ, ELLEN MURPHY, ERICA FLANNES

Sacred Tattoo

Address: 424 Broadway, New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 226-4286

Tattoo Artists: Lalo, Jon Mesa, Andy B., Nick Wilcox, Jessica V., Matthew J. Adams

Inkstop Tattoo

Address: 209 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009
Phone: (212) 995-2827
Hours: Mon-Thu: 1–9pm
               Fri-Sat: 1–11pm
               Sun: 2–9pm


Tattoo Artists: Eric, Eddie,Jose, Ronen, Raul

New York Adorned

Address: 47 Second Ave., New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 473-0007
Hours: Mon-Thu,Sun :1–9pm
                Fri-Sat : 1–10pm


Tattoo Artists: Horizakura ,Yoni Zilber, Damion Ross ,Virginia Elwood, Kris Magnotti, Bart Bingham, Brad Stevens

Studio 28 Tattoos - Tattoo Shop

Address: 108 West 28th Street, New York, NY 10001
Phone: (646) 370-6509
Hours: Mon-Sat : 1–8pm
               Sun : Closed

Tattoo Artists: Omar, Gaje, Alex Alien






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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Best Tattoo Artists in Los Angeles

Dear readers, I have researched so much before writing about best tattoo artists in Los Angeles.  I have checked many forums on the internet and gathered useful addresses and proper contact numbers of tattoo artists in Los Angeles.

It is my pleasure to find best tattoo artists in L.A.  While doing this task, I visited many top websites related to tattooing and found out tattoo artist bio and their popularity in Los Angeles.

In this post, I have also covered famous tattoos of Los Angeles, but before that check out addresses and related tattoo artist's names with their popularity in L.A.

Zulu Tattoo 
Address: 165 South Crescent Heights Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048 
Phone: (323) 782-9977
Hours: Mon-Sat:11am–7pm
           Sun: 12pm–7pm

Tattoo Artist: Zulu, Kody, Adam, Misha, Christina

Kat Von D's High Voltage Tattoo

Address: 1259 North La Brea Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90038
Phone: (323) 969-9820
Hours: Mon-Sun: 12pm-10Pm

Tattoo Artist: Adrian,Camila,Dan,Dennis,Jack,Jeff,John,Kat,Kevin,Khoi,Nate

Body Electric Tattoo & Piercing

Address: 7274 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: (323) 954-0408
Hours: Mon-Thu,Sun :12–9:30pm
           Fri-Sat :12–11pm

Tattoo Artist: Taka Tamada,Mike G.,Albert Sgambati,Jacob Ramirez,Randal Muntz,Jon Tomashefsky,David Alexander,Kevin Creighton,Tono Tenorio

Broken Art Tattoo

Address: 2400 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90039
Phone: (323) 661-4777
Hours: Mon-Sat: 12–9pm
           Sun: 12–6pm

Tattoo Artist: Jeremy Swan, Matt Soderberg, Derrek Everette, Josue Acosta, Dillon Eaves 

Art & Soul Tattoo Co Inc

Address: 2600 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90034
Phone: (310) 202-7203
Hours: Mon - Closed
          Tue-Sun: 3–10pm

Tattoo Artist: Jim Parchen,Erika Stanley,Steve Delgado,Ross K.Jones

Freak Chic 

Address: 7365 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: (323) 951-1501
Hours: Mon-Sun: 12pm–12am

Tattoo Artist : Justin Dusch,Shon Lindauer,Baku Watanabe,Jamie Schene


Here is some golden collection from all these Tattoos of Los Angeles.












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