Markus Lenhard and TAM: Health Tips for Tattooers!
Most of my friends who are tattooers have a bad back at some point. This isn’t the kind of job where you can sit in a desk chair or a Lazy Boy (imagine how cool that would be for any job!). Thankfully, Markus Lenhard has collected for the TAM blog some really helpful tips to … Read more
Avoid that Infected Tattoo in the First Place.
Every single day I see this on my dashboard for the site: I wrote this post in 2009, and ever since then tramps who didn’t get tattooed by a pro have been looking at it every week for some really basic ideas on what an infected tattoo might look like. Here’s a bright … Read more
Advice for Beginning Tattooers, by Jason Lambert
Above tattoo is by Jason Lambert… duh. Today this has been doing the rounds on my Facebook news feed. A lot of the time, people post up boring crap on Facebook that I think is lame, but this time it’s something cool, so I’d be stupid not to encourage it. Jason Lambert’s blog is pretty … Read more
Untrue Shit I hear about Tattooing.
We’re at a time now, where everyone with access to Google is an expert, and everyone who can (or a lot of the time can’t) string a sentence together can make a lot of money from pretty much anything. This is no different around tattooing, and I see a lot of people who don’t really … Read more
Stop letting crap Conventions Rip you off.
Header picture is from the Brighton Tattoo Convention, which is definitely not shit, haha. You know what? I’m irritated today. What’s new, right? Haha, really though: yesterday I saw yet another shite ‘tattoo convention’ run by a couple of thick arseholes who don’t have a clue what a tattoo convention is. I’m pretty annoyed. Up … Read more
Tattoos at Work: Some Hopefully Helpful Tips!
I was walking home from work today, wondering what I wanted to write about for you all, and I thought to myself, “hey, let’s talk about work!”. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with facts about empathy and calming angry people down, I want to talk to you about your tattoos instead. I … Read more
Careers and The Tattooed: My Hard work put to some Use.
I’ve been playing with Issuu.com again. This year, I put my mountains of tattoo books through some rigorous abuse, and used them to write my university dissertation for Advice, Guidance and Counselling. For the research, I focused in on careers counselling and those with tattoos. Now I’m done with university, and I have my degree, … Read more
Why it’s Important to keep your Appointment.
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot from my friends in studios about how their customers haven’t been showing up for appointments. I don’t know why it’s been happening so much over the past couple of weeks, maybe there’s something in the water. Anyway, why not use our last post of the week to remind you … Read more
Food For Thought.
I found something while perusing TattooSnob.com today from David Bruehl which I think you’ll all find pretty interesting! In his recent blog post, David has been considering nutrition, and how it can have an effect on not only how well you can sit for a tattoo, but how it may heal afterwards. He’s basically … Read more
Have a Good One!
When it comes to good, solid advice about tattoos, the best place to educate yourself is always in a tattoo studio. Tattoo artists know more than anyone about everything from choosing your style and artist to what do do after you’ve walked out the door with a great new piece. Their knowledge is invaluable, and … Read more
What the Funk?
The fabulous Guy Creighton at 18 to Life (Devon, UK) showed me his website the other day for his studio, and I found something there I had to share with you guys. Amongst the usual online portfolios and “about us” pages, one stood out as extremely intriguing. Simply titled “What the Fuck?”, this page ended … Read more
A Sacred Transformation
For a few people, tattoos are a lot like therapy. I can kind of see where a lot of them are coming from- some cover up scars, some mark the past and some just want to re-invent themselves. In some ways, it’s really cool that people can take something like tattooing and make it … Read more
Q&A Time: This week, Jem’s ‘Mature’ Apprenticeship
I had originally intended this post to be a general Q&A session, where I try to answer some of the more popular questions people ask around tattooing. However, Tattoosday UK regular Jem posted a really interesting question, so perhaps a weekly Q&A post which does into a little more depth will work a little better … Read more
Job Interview? Ink Armour has you Covered!
We’ve all done it- you’ve landed a great job interview, chosen your outfit, planned what you’ll say, and then it hits you… will by tattoos be an issue? Unfortunately, some employers still prefer tattoos to be covered (and this is fine really, by the way, most have good reasons), but some of us have a … Read more
Sound Answers to Silly Questions
Let’s face it, non- tattooed people sometimes have their own ideas about those who have tattoos. Some of these thoughts are good, some bad. I never really thought I’d see the day when the tattooed amongst us became automatically able to dish out advice on sex and dating though! Right now, Nerve.com has a feature … Read more
