3 Fresh Ideas For A Great New Year 2011 Party

Bad Habits

The first day of the New Year marks the end of caffeine, sugar, fast food, drunken karaoke — basically the end of every bad habit you love! What better way to bring in the New Year than one last binge on your favorite treats and pastimes? Your friends will all jump at the chance to indulge their guilty pleasures one last time!

When you send out the invitations, include a questionnaire so that you can find out what changes everyone is planning to make in 2011. Keep this secret and theme your party around everyone’s resolutions. Then, let your guests try to figure out whom each resolution belongs to!

Look Forward by Celebrating the Past

Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. Kick off New Year 2011 by bringing back the Rock n Roll 50s with a retro themed party, complete with poodle skirts and leather jackets! No standing around with blank stares at this party — you and our friends will be too busy rocking around the clock to your favorite karaoke hits from Elvis Presley and Frankie Avalon. Send out juke box themed invitations and mix cds with your favorite 50s hits to get everyone in the spirit for one rockin’ New Year’s party!

Top Secret – I could tell you but then I would have to kill you

There’s nothing more disappointing than getting all spruced up for a New Years “black tie” party only to arrive and find the same old dull atmosphere. You know who never had a dull black tie event? That’s right, Bond, James Bond! To kick off the New Year throw a Casino Royale themed party.
Send your guests invitations marked “Top Secret” along with a little fake coinage to spend on craps and shaken not stirred martinis when they arrive. Have everyone break out their black ties, or they can even come dressed as their favorite bond girl, villain or the man himself, 007!
New Years parties don’t have to be a snooze. With a little creativity, your themed New Year 2011 party will be one crazy fun night to remember! Happy New Years!

Get Tattooed For the Holidays

A great time to get tattooed is over the holidays. Here's reasons why you should find a great tattoo and get it inked over the holidays!

1. Group tattooing : Many people are re-united with their friends and family, and a great way to mark the moment is getting a tattoo together. It's a great collective activity to do, whether it be a number of your friends or family, or just you and one other friend. It'll be fun, exciting, and obviously a very memorable holiday and time in life to never forget.

2. Showing your ink off for family gatherings! Often times there can be tension over family holiday gatherings and there seems to always be those relatives who like to brag about what they have done or accomplished in the past year. A great way to shun the attention away from them is to get a fresh tattoo to display proudly to all. This can kill any bravado relative tales of grandeur or excitement, for you will be the one sporting the fresh ink and it'll be the real deal. Any over the top, phony relative story won't be able to stand up against a permanent ink job, a killer tattoo!

3. Strong Symbolization: The holidays provide the perfect time for a tattoo, by representing the end of one year, and the beginning of another. Whether you had a good year or a horrible year, you've gotten through it. That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and a great way to symbolize that is through a fresh, new, tattoo. Also, you are entering a brand new year. So as well as symbolizing a goodbye to the old, you are also representing a strong start for the new year. Fresh ink can bring you into the new year feeling strong, confident, and unstoppable.

The New Year and New Tattoos

The Nightmare before Christmas is a classic film with a big fan following, so, ever since it came out years ago, Nightmare before Christmas tattoos have been gaining popularity. Everyone wants to get in on the action and have one of these incredibly cool tattoos!
As you may be aware, the movie featured a character named Jack Skellington. The premise is that Jack was the Pumpkin King who lived in Halloween Town. He was extremely bored there, so he visited Christmas Town. What he found there caused him to try to spice up his own town and things got a bit crazy from there.
If you love the movie, you will love the tattoos. Nightmare before Christmas tattoo designs are just as varied as other tattoo designs. You might choose to start out Oogie Boogie or one of the other characters. If you are feeling like getting a more adventurous Nightmare before Christmas Tattoo, on the other hand, you might want to get a large tattoo featuring a Christmas Town or Halloween Town scene in greater detail. No matter what you choose, the result will be a fun image to show off anywhere. Remember, though, not everything needs to be done at once. You could always start off small and add to your Nightmare before Christmas tattoo images later.
As with any other tattoo, location is also important.This is where a little 

 

lanning comes into play. As mentioned above, you do not need to get your entire Nightmare before Christmas tattoo done at once. However, if you do want to get a large tattoo or you think you might want to make your Nightmare before Christmas tattoo larger and more elaborate later, you need to consider where you are going to put it. Your back or your stomach will lend themselves better to larger tattoos, while smaller ones could be placed almost anywhere on your body that you wish.
When deciding where to place your Nightmare before Christmas tattoo, you should consider the clothing you like to wear and exactly how often you want to show off your tattoo as well. If you get a tattoo on your arm, for instance, it will be more visible than other areas.
There are so many Nightmare before Christmas tattoos to choose from that you can simply pick a design from anywhere on the internet and go with it. However, if you want to add your own personal interpretations of the movie and give it a little extra personal touch, your tattoo artist can help you to do that.
So, if you enjoyed the Nightmare before Christmas movie then you may want to immortalize the feeling by adding Jack Skellington or some other aspect of the film as body art!

Christmas Themed Tattoos

 

 Christmas Tattoo

Stuck on thinking of a gift for someone? How about a Christmas tattoo? In this case, literally. Quite a few of these tattoos are from the animated classic “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer”. Those particular tattoos were created at All or Nothing tattoo and art studios, in Atlanta, Georgia where they gave each other Christmas tattoos. The name of the artist is given for each tattoo when found. Please add your own and the name of the artist if known.

Tribal Tattoo

Josh Beech Tattoos

Josh Beech and Ash Stymest are the poster boys for hip British models. Young, skinny, tattooed all over, and packing a whole lot of attitude.

Rising British photographer Brett Lloyd recently captured Ash and Josh for a feature in T. I Post, with the focus being on their elaborate tattoos.

The trio previously collaborated on a Dazed & Confused shoot that ranks as one of my favorites from 2008. You can see it alongside other features from Brett Lloyd, Ash Stymest, and Josh Beech in the related section below.

Tattoos & Permanent Makeup

FDA considers the inks used in intradermal tattoos, including permanent makeup, to be cosmetics and considers the pigments used in the inks to be color additives requiring premarket approval under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. However, because of other public health priorities and a previous lack of evidence of safety concerns, FDA traditionally has not exercised its regulatory authority over tattoo inks or the pigments used in them. The actual practice of tattooing is regulated by local jurisdictions.

FDA is aware of more than 150 reports of adverse reactions in consumers to certain permanent make-up ink shades, and it is possible that the actual number of women affected was greater. In addition, concerns raised by the scientific community regarding the pigments used in these inks have prompted FDA to investigate the safe use of tattoo inks. FDA continues to evaluate the extent and severity of adverse events associated with tattooing and is conducting research on inks. As new information is assessed, the agency will consider whether additional actions are necessary to protect public health.
In addition to the reported adverse reactions, areas of concern include tattoo removal, infections that result from tattooing, and the increasing variety of pigments and diluents being used in tattooing. More than fifty different pigments and shades are in use, and the list continues to grow. Although a number of color additives are approved for use in cosmetics, none is approved for injection into the skin. Using an unapproved color additive in a tattoo ink makes the ink adulterated. Many pigments used in tattoo inks are not approved for skin contact at all. Some are industrial grade colors that are suitable for printers' ink or automobile paint.
Nevertheless, many individuals choose to undergo tattooing in its various forms. For some, it is an aesthetic choice or an initiation rite. Some choose permanent makeup as a time saver or because they have physical difficulty applying regular, temporary makeup. For others, tattooing is an adjunct to reconstructive surgery, particularly of the face or breast, to simulate natural pigmentation. People who have lost their eyebrows due to alopecia (a form of hair loss) may choose to have "eyebrows" tattooed on, while people with vitiligo (a lack of pigmentation in areas of the skin) may try tattooing to help camouflage the condition.
Whatever their reason, consumers should be aware of the risks involved in order to make an informed decision.

Do you have any advice for aspiring tattoo artists?

Like I said before, find someone whose work you really like and seek out an apprenticeship. Believe what I am saying, this is the ONLY way to do it right. Forget what you think and do it right. Don't take NO for an answer. Let me tell you something, I am not a tattoo celebrity, but I seriously get at least three or four different people a week who watched one of the TV shows and they want to know about tattooing.

On top of that, I get five to ten other folks telling me how they 'have a cousin/brother/friend/ baby daddy who should do this, they can really draw!' I'm a little jaded with folks trying to be me. Truth is, there is a lot of junk that goes with this lifestyle that they don't tell you on the brochure. Yeah, you get to look cool, and be cool, but let me pull the curtain back share a little truth.

Here's the facts about tattooing as they stand.

    * You work long, weird hours. You work nine to twelve hour days and you go to work when most folks are at lunch and you get off work when folks are either in bed or already wherever they are going for the night.
    * You don't make THAT much money. Really, don't buy the hype on TV. I do alright for myself, but I am NOT buying an Escalade, a custom Jeep, or a fully restored hotrod.
    * Your family life is really hard. The hours are hard on a wife and kids.
    * You have no benefits. That's right, no health insurance, novacation days, no sick days, no retirement, no unemployment benefits. You are setting yourself up to work your ass off and to do it until you die, whether you are sick or not.
    * You deal with people all day long. Most folks are great and you appreciate them, but there is a high percentage of people who will walk through that door with a fundamental lack of respect for you and your job.

Now, with all that said, being a tattoo artist, for real, is a lot like being a pirate. You are or you ain't. No real middle ground. Despite all the drawbacks to this, I love being a tattoo artist. It is not just WHAT I do, it is WHO I am. The rant above is not me downing what I am, just an eye-opener because I see so many folks getting blinded by the TV shows and getting a very wrong impression of this lifestyle. Right now, it is very cool to be a tattoo artist. Everybody wants to do it.

I had this one kid come into the shop asking about an apprenticeship. He kept going on and on about how much he loved tattooing and how much he felt the drive to be a tattoo artist. After listening to him gush for a few minutes, I ask him how old he was. Nineteen came the response. So I ask to see his tattoos. He got this horrified look on his face and was like...Oh no, I don't have any. Look Pal, get out of the shop and quit wasting my time! If you have been of age for a full year and you know you want to be a tattoo artist more than anything and you don't even one tattoo, then you need to get out.

So sum up, aspiring tattoo artist, don't bother. Be a customer for a long while. It's OK to just love tattoos and collect them.

Jonathan's Tattoo

It’s hard to look authentically rebellious or menacing these days, when even well-behaved businessmen wear earrings and ponytails and college students destined for quiet suburban lives have body piercings and tattoos.

Tattoos, in particular, are not the radical brandings, the bold violations of flesh and propriety, they once were. Available in New York from almost 1,400 licensed tattoo artists, tattoos are probably better and safer now than they’ve ever been — more creative and varied, applied in many cases by serious, highly skilled body artists.

Then again, there are tattoos, and there are tattoos. It is unlikely that the ambitious professional with a single, understated, discreetly placed and wittily conceived tat, or for that matter the teenager with her boyfriend’s name and two lovebirds emblazoned in the small of her back, will ever have tattoos on the face and scalp, or a full chest or back “panel” or a tattooed arm or leg.

Some tattoo aficionados, though, have transformed large portions of their bodies into multicolored canvases for all manner of skulls, serpents, raptors, flame-breathing dragons, flowers, vines, angels, demons, daggers, buxom bombshells and portraits of heroes and loved ones.

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Tattoos have been used for centuries to reflect changes in life status, whether passage into adulthood or induction into a group like the military or a gang. In recent years, tattoos have also become a fashion accessory, a trend fueled by basketball players, bands and celebrities.

A report by the Food and Drug Administration estimated that as many as 45 million Americans have tattoos. The report based the number on the finding by a Harris Interactive Poll in 2003 that 16 percent of all adults and 36 percent of people 25 to 29 had at least one tattoo. The poll also found that 17 percent of tattooed Americans regretted it. And a tattoo that cost several hundred dollars could require several thousand dollars and many laser sessions to remove.

Simple Tips to Creating Unique Tattoo Designs

 

While tattoos may be nothing more than art, finding the right tattoo that is worth of being displayed on your body for the rest of your life can be much more difficult than you may think. A tattoo is a statement of who you are, and it is the ultimate form of self expression so you will want to make sure you find the right unique tattoo designs that are truly an expression of who you are. Choosing the tattoo design is not something that should be handled hastily and it is probably not a decision you will be able to make in a matter of hours. While you could visit your local tattoo artist to browse the ideas they have available, you may not realize that many other sources for tattoo design ideas exist with at least one unique tattoo designs that is an expression of the person you are. Here are some of the most popular resources that can help you choose the right tattoo design that is you.
First, consider using free web images to find unique tat designs. One of the lowest quality resources to use in your quest for unique tattoos is to utilize the free designs that can be found on nearly every corner of the web. While you may find some sites that have high res images, this images are accessible by nearly everyone on the planet which makes them hardly unique. Obtaining your tattoo ideas from one of these resources increases your chance of choosing an idea that at least one other person may have chose. Unless you don't mind seeing your idea on at least one other person's body, the free web images is not the best option for you.
Second and equally risky is to choose your tattoo when at the tattoo parlor. Since the design you choose will on your body for the rest of your life, it is not a decision you want to make hastily. When it comes to choosing unique tattoos, you will want to make sure you take the time to search and find the one that is truly you. While this does not mean that you may not find the perfect tattoo design ideas at your local parlor, you will want to make sure your idea is truly unique, and a choice from a book increases the probability that at least one other person will be walking around with the same tattoo you chose.
Third, consider using online tattoo design galleries. Unlike the free tattoo designs, online galleries offer unique tattoo designs that are available for purchase only. With the power of the internet, you can download as many tattoo ideas as you would like giving you the ability to make the decision in the comfort of your own home. These online tattoo galleries also offer access to exclusive tattoo ideas that can't be found anywhere else. You even have the option to use one of the many versions of tattoo software to modify your design even further after you make your purchase. If this is not for you, you can also take the design to your local tattoo parlor and have them make the modifications for you. This can guarantee that you will have a tattoo that is truly you.
Lastly, consider using the experience of a tattoo artist. If you have utilized all the ideas we previously listed and you still have yet to find unique tat designs that are a true expression of you, consider enlisting the help of your tattoo artist. Since tattoo artists are experts at what they do, they will be able to guide you into the perfect tattoo deign that will truly make you happy. Just keep in mind this may be the most expensive option, since it may require more of the artist's time and skills to create a design that is truly you.
These are just a few of the most popular resources for choosing the most unique tattoo designs for your needs. Consider using an online tattoo design gallery or the assistance of an experienced tattoo artist and you are sure to find the perfect tattoo design that is as unique as you are.
Terry Daniels of TattooDesign-Reviews.com, specializes in helping individuals get the styles and designs they need to make the right tattoo choices. Terry leads his team of tattoo experts in constantly reviewing new products and packages in the market to make sure you get the best value tattoo designs that look good on you.

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