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Bristol and Levi have Engagement Tattoo

It seems John McCain’s Vice President running mate Governor Sarah Palin’s family keeps growing and growing with daughter Bristol Palin pregnant and now showing off ring and engagement tattoo.

Palin’s boyfriend and father of baby Levi Johnston, reportedly has a name tattoo of “Bristol” on his ring finger, according to UsMagazine.com, and Bristol Palin appeared to be wearing an engagement ring. Earlier this week, when Governor Palin announced her daughter’s pregnancy, she said in the statement that the couple planned to wed.  Well, now it’s officially in ink.
 
Apparently, McCain and Palin are not messing around when they say they are going to change Washington.  Democrates are more notouriuos for sporting tattoos; apparently the next generation of Republicans plans to show everyone a thing or tattoo.

Let’s hope they their instant fame does not lead them down the path of other celebrity couples — tattoo names, break ups, and tattoo removal.

Does having a tattoo feel like wearing the same dirty shirt every day… for the rest of your life? 

No wonder why people have tattoo regret and remove tattoos  or get cover-up designs over the original ink.  How boring would it be to wear the same shirt everyday? So Totally Boring!  Change it Up.

Why is it that people without tattoos blatantly confess they just don’t get it, while people with tattoos question just what exactly is there to get. Could the answer be more than skin deep?

One thing everyone seems to “get” or agree is tattoos are undeniably laden with attitude. On the surface tattoos are merely colorful expressions of identity, yet underlying the facade tattoos possess engrossing power emerging from permanency, pain, and psychoanalysis.

Could it just be tattoos exist as exclusive designs connecting one with the world, representations of inner truths for outer interpretation? Perhaps the only way to “get” it out of one’s self is to get it tattooed.
 
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Let’s all take a moment to be truthful here; everyone knows tattoos are meant to draw attention and for viewing, similar to other forms of art.  When a man or woman gets a tattoo, he or she knows they want others to see it, or they wouldn’t be showing it off.   I know it, you know it, we all know it.

Men generally get masculine, powerful tattoo designs, while women typically go for tattoo designs that draw upon their beauty and femininity. And placement of tattoos on the body, are not accidental. Tattoo designs are intentionally located on areas of the body to be noticed and often meant to insinuate personality traits.

While the majority of men are forthcoming about their tattoos, many women claim their tattoos are purely for personal enjoyment and for select individuals in their lives.  This perhaps is one of the most ludicrous fabrications in tattooing.   

Seriously, if a tattoo is intended for personal viewing and enjoyment, why then would anyone get one in an area they can’t even see without twisting and contorting themselves in the mirror?   When a woman gets a lower back tattoo she definitely wants the attention that comes along with it.  And I guarantee, very few of the men getting an eyeful of her tattoo are thinking, “Gee whiz, there goes a real wholesome lady.” 

Tattoos and Popular Culture…

Has tattooing been embraced as an art of consumption, private manifestation and insubordination with the body as the site of exhibition?

Or are tattoos just hip and trendy, the ”in thing” to have?

How amazing and messed up is it that each person has the power to control the entire world?  Single handedly every one of us holds the remote control on how the rest of the world views us; simply by the way we view ourselves.  Our body language and physical presentation speak volumes about the opinion we want others to form about us. 

Truly amazing concept isn’t it?   This makes life much more simple doesn’t it?  Respect yourself and others will respect you.  Be proud of yourself. Aspire to be an individual and unique spirit, and others will admire your confidence.  Get someone else’s name carved into your skin, and the world will entitle you such.  Postmark your calling on your lower back and yes; the world will respect your Tramp Stamp.

The view of your tattoos and you: remember, the rest of the world only sees it as it is.

A few interesting tattoo statistics  

If tattoos are a form of self-expression, the following individuals must be speechless…

According to the the Guinness Book of World Records - The man with the most tattoos covering his body is Tom Leppard, of Scotland.  99.2 percent of Leppard’s body is tattooed with a leopard hyde design, and all the skin between the dark spots tattooed saffron yellow. 

The world’s most tattooed woman is a Canadian who goes by the name Krystene Kolorful. Ms. Kolorful is indeed just that as 95 percent of her body is tattooed.  Interestingly, her tattoo bodysuit took over ten years to complete.

And the person holding the record of most individual tattoo designs on one body is Bernard Moeller, of USA.  Moeller has astonshingly over 14,000 seperate tattoos decorating his body. 

Seriously, that’s what I call expressive. Opps, I mean impressive.  Well,  I guess both?

Once regarded as extreme and defiant markings of a rebel, tattoos have become common, oh so mainstream, monograms among the masses.   It seems tattoos have topped the benchmark of social acceptance, becoming trendy and typical, this is evident of the numerous Nanas and soccer moms sporting roses and hearts on their ankles.   So what does the tattoo future hold?  Will the next generation of Wanna-Be – Renegades be left with no choice for extreme but to go full suit extending tattoos on their face, hands and neck?  If so does this mean Nana and Suzie soccer mom will fully immerse into ghastly current of the mainstream?

Tattoos – are they a form of art or disgrace?

Its one thing when a tattoo represents or symbolizes meaning in one’s life, but honestly how many people truly have a deep spiritual connection with Tweety Bird?

Why would anyone walk into a tattoo shop on a whim, look threw a few books, close their eyes and then randomly point to a cartoon and say, “This is it, this is the one I imagined.” Somehow I am just not grasping the “meaningful” part of this “art.”

But what is even more troubling to me is the Name Game. Really why would anyone want another persons name etched into his or her skin?  Oh yes, because it’s art. What happened to writing on the bathroom wall or even spray paint on the side of a building?  Now graphite there is a serious form of art.

Luckily for all of these art lovers tattoo removal exists. 

Why the Fascination with Poorly Designed Tattoos and Tattoo Removal? 

Just recently, I began to question my obsessive interest with tattoos and tattoo removal.  Naturally, an education and background in skin care working for a plastic surgeon would have something to do with it.  And then of course discussing tattoo removal options with patients and assisting with laser tattoo removal treatments would further explain my behavior.  Yet, even considering the obvious, I still find my behavior to be odd. So, why do I have this fascination with judging the quality of tattoos?  And why do I find great satisfaction helping people wipe their slate clean of bad ink? And then it hit me harder than a ton of bricks, still inside the bucket loader; it was the Devil. How could I forget the about the little red devil?  Now, I recall what happened just like it was occurring again. I was six, and my parents decided to divorce.  I live with my mother and visited my father one weekend a month.

I hadn’t seen my father for a few weeks, when he pulled into the driveway to pick me up for our visit.  I remember being glad and surprised to see him.  As a newly single man, transformed into an unleashed dating stud had made a few changes to his hair and clothes. I wasn’t sure if the puffy curly hair and shirt with large bell collar looked good or desperate.  Then before I could finish saying hello it he pushed up his sleeve and flexed his meek “left gun” (I was a kid and that’s what he called it) to flash his latest self-enhancement project – a new tattoo. 

Now, I am not saying I was an intellectually advanced child but I will say for a six year old I was in tune and wise.  I remember looking up at my father (the adult) bewildered as to why he was acting like a goofy kid, but even more bemused why of all things did he get a permanent cartoon of a red pot-bellied devil tattooed on his arm. Being a child and inquisitive, I was sure the words etched beneath his tattoo meant something, just something I didn’t understand so asked “What does ‘Hot Stuf’ mean?” Caught of guard, his satisfied grin turned to a trembling grimace and turned three shades of red darker then his little devil as he realized his tattoo said, “ It says Hot Stu…” The word “STUFF” was missing an “F”.  My face grew instantly pale as I determined my father definitely he looked desperate and not good. The new dating machine had been sporting a tattoo with a typo.  And even sadder (if there could be such a thing) he had been proudly showboating it for a weeks before I had the chance to point out the spelling error.  Four painful hours, two appointments, and a half a jar of Bag Balm later, the tattoo artist was able to reworkthe design squeezing in the missing letter F, making the devil’s potbelly like a case of Gout instead. Even with correct spelling my father’s tattoo would never be more than what it was, a bad tattoo and a badge of regret.

Reliving this vivid event of my past, uncovered the origin of my tattoo fascination.  I am more passionate and determined then ever to help individuals like my father, good people with terribly bad taste in tattoos remedy their mistakes by introducing them to safe and effective tattoo removal methods.

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