In ancient Japan, an armband tattoo was not a good thing. In fact, any potentially visible tattoo often meant that you were ostracized from society due to committing a terrible (or not so terrible, depending on the judge or emperor in question) crime. Interestingly, the tattoos which once meant a fate that some considered worse than death one merciful emperor saved a mans life when he was sentenced to death, but commanded him to be tattooed...

Armband tattoo designs are inarguably one of the most popular tattoo designs around. You see them wherever you look in urban realms and rural hideouts, on CEOs and bikers, on young women and old men. Whether hidden beneath a sleeve or proudly displayed at the beach, an armband is a classic choice for a tattoo. Sometimes art that is designed to be an armband gets modified and becomes a wrist-band or maybe an ankle-band.

The United States Army and the United States Marines have been serving their countrymen at home and abroad for literal centuries now. As with any combat-oriented service group, the sense of pride, brotherhood and honor that marines and soldiers feel for their units, their fellow servicemen and their country is nearly tangible. Through Army tattoos and Marine tattoos, this deep, unspoken emotion can be manifested in a uniquely individual way that still enables all bearers of these tattoos to recognize each other as brothers.

Aubrey O'Day has three tattoos. Her first two tattoos are on her neck and are the barcodes from her pop group Danity Kane's two albums, "Danity Kane" and "Welcome to the Dollhouse." Aubrey considers the making and releasing of these albums as important milestones in her life and thus wanted to have a permanent reminder. She recently got another tattoo from tattoo artist F ...

Audrina Patridge has one tattoo, located on the Back of her neck. The full colored tattoo is quite large for a neck tattoo and expands into the nape of her neck. Although accounts vary, it is supposedly a red Heart tattoo drawn with a stem and Leaves like an apple. There is also a Snake coiled around the apple. The inspiration for it comes from the Biblical story of Adam, Eve, ...

In recent years, many tattoo and piercing businesses have come under new regulations involving the sterilization of equipment used in their daily operations. These regulations generally outline requirements for routine spore testing of the autoclaves, record keeping, and cleaning and packaging of sterilized items. This article focuses primarily on the theory of proper autoclave sterilization and common spore testing issues.

When most people think about getting an animal tattoo design, they think of leopard tattoos, butterfly tattoos or, at the most extreme, maybe a full back eagle tattoo or a jaguar tattoo that appears to be ripping through their skin. They might even decide on an elaborate wolf tattoo that symbolizes their inner wild side or a snake tattoo that coils around an arm or leg. Usually, people do not think of actually becoming the animals that they have tattooed on their bodies...

Barcodes are a part of a system of inventory control and price checking invented in the 1950's. It is represented as a series of vertical lines that are read by an optical machine and translated into data. Originally conceived as a way to make inventory control within large stores much easier, it is an everyday sight in modern life. Nearly every item purchased from even a medium sized merchant ...

According to recent polls, more people are getting tattoos than ever before, especially those between the ages of 18 and 35. As tattoo designs become more popular, so does the profession of tattooing. It is no wonder why people are interested in becoming a tattoo artist, as many television programs now show a very attractive side to the profession...

Bees have been a part of human history for as long scientists can tell. In fact, there are theories that bees and their honey were very important to early man because the words for honey, bees and beeswax are similar in widely dispersed areas such as China, France, and Iceland.

Early man thought the bees were heaven sent. And because they had the ability to find their ways back home ...