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An epic tribute to a favorite summer treat. The warm weather may be melting away, but these ice cream cones never will.  Read more….

While one of the common slogans attached to the city of Las Vegas is the popular statement that what happens there stays there, it is not always true or even desirable. And of course it refers to the potential for letting go and having the time of your life, while returning to your stable status quo lifestyle when you leave. While this is well and good, there are also things you can do in Vegas that will absolutely go home with you. The most famous of these is to get married while you’re there, and while that is common, there are also many others. One of the habits that continues to gain popularity is the decision to get a tattoo while you’re in the city. Meanwhile, some of the local tattoo artists are so skilled and successful that going to Vegas for the specific reason of getting a tattoo is also becoming more common.

And for many people who are enjoying the sights, sounds and various neon attractions along the Vegas strip, they are frequently tempted to stop in at some of the quality tattoo shops they find along the way. Some of the popular tattoo parlors located along the strip include Crown Electric Tattoo Shop, Club Tattoo and Hart and Huntington among a great deal of others.

Crown Electric is one of the locals’ favorite shops and this always attracts visitors when they discover this piece of information. Club Tattoo is located in the Planet Hollywood Miracle Mile Shops and is Vegas’ version of the hottest tattoo studio in the world. In addition, there is a Henna Tattoo non permanent version located in the mall, which is an option for those who wish to let your activities in Vegas remain there. Hart and Huntington is one of the city’s most respected and well known shops and attracts famous personalities among others. These and other shops are the perfect places to get a permanent reminder of your trip to Sin City and you can pick a design on the spot or dream up one of your own while you’re staying in one of the Las Vegas Hotels .

The days of manual blood sugar testing may be fading.  Draper Laboratory is reportedly developing a “tattoo-like implant” that will monitor blood glucose levels.  Patients will be able to use a handheld device to “read” the luminescence levels of the tattoo instead of taking a direct reading from the blood. Read more here.

An unusual exhibition in Australia asks what various historical figures would have chosen to get as a tattoo.  Portraits include Queen Victoria, Hitler, Picasso, and Jesus.  Iconink is the brainchild of artist Matthew Lake.  The exbition runs through the end of May at the Cairns Regional Gallery in Queensland, Australia.

Justin Bieber, 16yo teen sensation reportedly got inked in March.  Photos have surfaced of him in a tattoo chair and of the tattoo itself, a small bird in flight.  The tattoo is apparently a Bieber family tradition and was acquired in Toronto.  Bieber’s father was with him during the tattoo session. Read more…

Throughout history, people have decorated their bodies with tattoos or piercings, from the Egyptians to the Greeks and Romans, from great civilizations to small tribal cultures, and while, aside from pierced ears, this practice was fairly rare, today you’ll find people with all sorts of visible piercings: ears, noses, tongues, and lips. If you’ve made the decision that you’d like to join the pierced culture, perhaps with a pierced lip, how much might this cost you?

Monetarily, you’ll find the lip piercings cost roughly between forty and fifty dollars. Often that price will be accompanied by the jewelry used in the piercing, such as a tiny metallic ball. Other places might charge around twenty-five to thirty dollars; however, you may find you’ll pay an additional price for the jewelry, which can range from ten to fifty dollars.

To avoid less tangible costs, such as infection, always make sure you have a professional piercer perform the work. Piercing is not for amateurs; the cost you save monetarily may easily be lost in the cost you’ll spend if health issues arise. For instance, the Association of Professional Piercers, recommends that you don’t get a piercing if, at the piercing site, you have any irritation of your skin, or a rash, a cut, moles, an unusual lesion or lump, or even a lot of freckles. People with diabetes, any auto-immune disorder, or hemophilia, shouldn’t be pierced. Don’t get a piercing if you’re pregnant or planning to become pregnant, although this latter point applies largely if you have plans not for a lip piercing, but a navel piercing.

There are general concerns about piercing which must be guarded against (such as bacterial infection at the site of the piercing), excessive bleeding, allergic reactions (to different types of jewelry), and damage to nerves (the loss of feeling at the pierced site). Know, too, that healing time varies depending on the part of the body pierced. While an ear lobe may take six to eight weeks to heal, a pierced lip will take two or three months. The parts of the body which appear to take the longest time to heal are the ear cartilage and the navel (both may take as much as four months to one year to heal).

Christina Ricci is an accomplished American actress, Emmy Award-nominated, who first became known for playing as a child Wednesday Addams in 1991’s The Addams Family movie and 1993’s Addams Family Values. She’s played in dramas such as 1997’s The Ice Storm and 2004’s Monster, as well as independent comedies, such as 1998’s The Opposite of Sex. She not only has a Golden Globe nomination for that film, but also for 1999’s Sleepy Hollow. This is an actress who has been one of the few people to successfully transform herself from child star to adult actress, who runs her own production company, Blaspheme Films, which has made Prozac Nation and Pumpkin, and in the last few years has also appeared in films as diverse as 2007’s Black Snake Moan, 2008’s Penelope, and the Wachowski Brother’s 2008’s Speed Racer. But what people really what to know is this: What kind of tattoos does Christina Ricci have?

Often actors and actresses steer clear of tattoos because of the problems they can cause when trying to assume the roles of different characters. However, if the actor is strong enough or has enough fame, then the potentially troublesome tattoo may be covered up with make-up or CGI or adapted as part of the choice of the character, as was the case with Matthew Fox in ABC’s mind-bending television series, Lost.

Christina Ricci, however, while loving tattoos, must still be careful about where to place them on her body. Most of her tattoos currently are ones that may be easily covered by clothes. She hopes to get even more tattoos than the ones she already has, including one on her arm, if she reaches that level of fame.

For now, Chrstina has a lion tattoo mean to represent Aslan, who was the lion in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. On her back, she also has sweet peas arranged in a bouquet and tattooed by Thomas Lockhart, a tattoo artist in Vancouver, Canada, known for applying his work to celebrities.

She also has a tattoo of a Fairy, located on the inside of her right wrist, as well as praying hands, located on her left hip. The praying hands, though, used to be a bat. Tattooed on her right side are the words “Move or Bleed,” and on her right thigh she has the name “Jack” tattooed, memorializing a deceased pet. Her remaining tattoos are of a blue sparrow, on her right breast, and a mermaid, on her left ankle.

This shouldn’t be taken as a definitive list, of course, because by the time you finish reading this article, she may have a few more.

After examining the scriptures, it becomes clear that the Bible speaks both negatively and positively about tattoos. The main quote that is in contention with most Christians comes from Leviticus 19:27-28 ‘You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. You shall not make any cutting in your flesh for the dead, nor make marks upon you: I am the Lord.’ But, it is widely accepted among Biblical scholars the Leviticus 19:28 refers solely to the practices of people cutting themselves and rubbing in ash when they are in a period of mourning. The ash rubbed into wounds left permanent marks, the marks referred to here.

In Genesis, chapter four: God puts a mark on Cain, so when others find him, they won’t kill him. The mark isn’t described, but it does appear to be permanent. Under Isaiah 44:5, the Bible reads, “One will say, ‘I belong to the Lord’; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’ and will take the name Israel.” In Isaiah 49:16 – ‘”See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.” In Ezekiel 9:4 – “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it”. These marks referred to in Genesis, Isaiah and in Ezekiel are both for the devout and for the troubled.

In the book of Revelations, tattoos represent that one has taken ‘the mark of the beast.’ But, also in Revelations, both non-believers and believers are marked, but for different reasons. It is written in Revelations 7:3 – “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” In Revelations 19:16, it is written – ” On his robe and on his thigh, he has this name written: King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Obviously referring to Jesus 2nd coming, his return to earth will be identified by his mark.

Corinthians 6:19 to 20 says, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own: you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” This verse is the most quoted by Christians as to why they tattoo their bodies, for them, they are displaying God’s ownership of their body and declaring his glory with the art they were everyday.

The history of body piercing is connected to the history of beautification or any kind of adornment, which is to suggest that it goes back much further than can be reasonably accounted for. There are some spectacular moments in recorded history when there were discoveries that helped to trace some of the origins, such as the discovery of navel piercings in ancient Egypt, and these might problematize the search for the origin rather than bring light to it. That’s because these stories do suggest that for all that can be known, there is certainly much, much more to it.

For example, it’s possible to trace the origin of the nose ring to the ancient Maya, or the Aztecs, who definitely had them, and quite likely their use was for adornment. This is particularly likely among the Maya, because of their great love for physical beauty, then as much as now. There are also other mentions of nose piercings among other indigenous groups in the Americas, and the origins could easily go back thousands of years, but it’s difficult to match the evidence of jewelry artifacts with their use since the skin is long gone.

But there is also plenty of evidence that relates the beginnings to India, when the Moghuls brought the tradition there in the 15th century, as a means to help decrease the pain of childbirth. In the Vedic scriptures they are also mentioned, and this places the date at 3,000 years prior. There are also Judeo-Christian biblical references to pierced noses, especially a mention of a nose ring as a gift to Rebekah in the old testament. This is not to mention the multiple origin stories of other piercings, like earlobes, lips, nipples, and genitals, and all of these have equally complex stories from all over the world.

The origin, then, could be in India, or possibly the Americas, or Africa, or any area where the practice of piercing was widespread. The trouble here is that is was widespread everywhere, and still is. There are many reasons for it throughout time, and they can include means of marking people as property, ways of controlling or enhancing sexual pleasure, for sheer aesthetic appeal, and a number of other reasons. The origins are spread far and deep into a common past, revealing a very common tendency among human cultures.

Getting a tongue piercing can be one of the boldest moves one can make, at least in the mainstream community. In the body art world, however, it’s a very common thing, and there are good reasons for it. The benefits of having a tongue piercing will become pretty obvious once you enter into the social world again, but it’s very important to be extremely careful with it for the first couple weeks. These are some general guidelines on how to take care of your tongue piercing, so that it can be a very attractive and useful adornment.

Tongue piercing is nothing new, although it’s certainly been increasing lately in popular alternative cultures. Part of the whole category of body modification, these kinds of piercings have been around for centuries. Most people will mention the Mayan tradition of tongue piercing, but that ritual is a bit different, where they would run barbed threads through the tongue to make offerings of blood to Earth Deities, and most people today aren’t considering that option. Instead, it’s a metal enhancement, and will in time become a part of your own make-up, although it will take a little getting used to.

The piercing itself is fairly painless as these things go, and the most annoying part of it will be the swelling. Generally this is the most pronounced within 2-5 days. After two weeks, the swelling should be long gone, and most of the healing taken care of, and you can switch from the longer post to the shorter one. However, before this, take care to keep rinsing the mouth out with mixtures of salt water, antiseptic that’s been diluted with four times the amount of water, and drink a lot of cold water. Cold water first thing in the morning has a great benefit to the healing process, and like any wound, it can keep the swelling down. Be careful, too, not to talk much during the first couple of days, and eat soft, bland foods, chewing slowly because it will take time to get used to the new object in your mouth.

It’s also important to keep pure alcohol out of the mouth, as this will irritate it very much, and so will excessive smoking, and any amount of these things can slow down the body’s tendency and capacity, for healing. With any unusual signs of infection, or swelling that persists, see a doctor. Your tongue is very important, and your new jewelry will show you exactly why soon enough.