Grab Your Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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This could be the ultimate demonstration of love and trust or maybe just a demonstration of how nuts you are.  Whatever it is, it sounds like it will make for good viewing. At the moment Gobstopper TV are casting for a new TV show to be filmed at the end of November and early December in which friends, family and lovers entrust the design of their next tattoo to each other.   The details are all a bit hush hush at the moment but Amy at Gobstopper TV tells me that this new show is for a huge, global TV company and will feature top tattoo artists who can boast "big hitting" clientele ..read more
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Review:  "Tattoo: An Illustrated Miscellany" by Lal Hardy
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Once upon a Saturday afternoon in 1987 a 17 year old Psychobilly sat on the 632 bus, his hair stuck up in an outrageous quiff, his leather jacket battered, his jeans ripped, a Marlboro hanging from his mouth and a newly acquired copy of the 1984 album "Stampede" by The Meteors in his hands. As he sat examining the sleeve of his new acquisition (in a way that only people over a certain age will remember) he read the immortal words, , "Cheers to Lal Hardy for providing the tattoos". He decided that day, that one day, he'd get himself to London to get tattooed by the same guy as The Meteors' lead ..read more
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Review: Ink by Alice Broadway
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"Ink"...It's rather good. (Image shamelessly stolen from Google Images). Alice Broadway: Teller of tales, spinner of yarns, drinker of tea (I suspect). Image also pilfered from Google. Well this is a first! I'm reviewing a book! That means that for the first time in a long time I've actually read a book. The book in question was "Ink" by Alice Broadway and I've been looking forward to this one for a while. A novel about tattoos? Of course I'm going to be all over that. "Ink" isn't what I expected, not what I expected at all but, you know what? That's a good thing! Well first off, this is one g ..read more
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Review: "Spark" By Alice Broadway
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"Spark" the follow up to the award winning "Ink" by Alice Broadway. Alice Broadway; Writing books, winning awards and drinking tea. A little over a year ago inspired me to write my first ever book review so I've been champing at the bit to get my hands on the follow up and I wasn't disappointed. That said, it's taken me longer to work out how to review it than it did to read it. (and if you haven't why haven't you?!) you'll know about Leora Flint, the confused teen-aged, tattoo prodigy and her struggles with faith, trust, friendship, a quietly oppressive government and her own somewhat shroude ..read more
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The University of Leicester Feminist Society  Tattoo Competition
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Well it's been a while since I blogged a blog so when I was approached by Fern Kenney, of Leicester University's Feminist Society, about a cross-promotion opportunity for tattisfaction.co.uk and the tattoo competition she is running to celebrate International Women's Day, I thought, "I've never done that before....why not?" Cutting a long story short, she asked me to judge the competition. Well, at that point panic set in....Do I know enough to judge a tattoo competition? erm.............not really, I'm just a hard to impress, grumpy, old man with tattoos and a website. So, I called in some fa ..read more
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J Michael Taylor Guest Blog
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I'm pleased to introduce the first guest blogger to Tattisfaction;  J Michael Taylor of Black Amethyst Tattoo Gallery in St Petersburg, Florida . Hopefully, he'll become a regular contributor as I'm pretty excited about getting not only the insight of somebody from the other side of the tattoo machine but also the other side of the Atlantic, too. Tattooing is a versatile art that has long been used in covering scars and blemishes. Getting a tattoo can be very life changing for some people with conditions that undermine their self-confidence and self-esteem. This body art can be very helpf ..read more
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Book Review: Tattooed Super Models by Christian Saint
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Social media is full of them. Beautiful women with tattoos taking selfies and showing off their art and, very often, as much of their tattooed bodies as the host site will allow. Self-professed models in search of likes, shares and followers. I find it all a bit tiresome. Three hundred selfies and 50,000 followers does not a model make. However, this does tell us one thing, if nothing else. There are an awful lot of guys who want to look at beautiful women with tattoos, though how many are admiring the art before the arse is another question. If only they weren’t all the same. If only it wasn ..read more
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I/U Ink: Cutting the Crap...
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Introducing i/U Ink and its founder, Nick Howard-Lanes. Is this the beginning of the end for shoddy tattooing? Nick Howard-Lanes: The man with the plan. If you've read many of the articles on the pages of this site you may well have got a few of impressions about me. Hopefully these include that I am as passionate about good tattooing as I am about my longing for the demise of bad tattooing. As the author of all but one of the articles on this site, there is very little I can can do but dust off my soap box, climb up and spread the gospel of me and hope that at least a few readers buy into the ..read more
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Book Review: Tattooed Beauties by Christian Saint
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Tattooed Beauties by Christian Saint. Published by Goliath Books Back in October of last year I wrote an article that was part review of a book entitled, and part preview of it's successor, for a while now (Sorry for the delay, Matthew) and I've finally managed to sit down and review it. I'll begin by saying that if beautiful women and tattoos are your thing, you are not going to be disappointed. Fifty three beautiful, tattooed and pierced models are crammed onto 256  pages. The book is a thing of quality, the pages are thick and luxurious and the whole thing feels 'substantial' as soon a ..read more
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Book Review: The Language of Tattoos by Oliver Munden & Nick Schonberger
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Well, I'll be damned! Nearly four years since my last entry. I blame Brexit, Covid and the war in the Ukraine. Why not? everybody else is using those excuses. In fact, self-employment is the actual reason but, I digress, nobody cares. Out of nowhere I got invited to review "The Language of Tattoos" published by . This is 221 pages of the collaborative efforts of tattoo artist and tattoo expert Nick Schonberger. There are a further two pages of perfectly formed index and, if you've read my last post, you'll know how much I like an index that makes sense. So, who are these guys who have combined ..read more
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