A nice set of articles from IA: two of them, ‘colorful shops welcomed’ and ‘tattoo quotes,’ focus on the recent change in the state ordinance while the third one is more about local businesses ‘mobilizing against tattoo parlor.’

When there’s resistance, there also must be something good to look forward to, so here’s a short one about one ID parlor that’s making difference and helping local community.

One of my German friends used to laugh at the ink-TV shows and point out how fashionable ‘memorial tattoos’ became thanks to them – almost each and every one show episode was about someone commemorating something. Here’s another memorial tattoo but this one makes for quite unusual a project.

Growing popularity of tattoos in an article ‘tattoo artists come of age.’

Interview with one of the great ones: ‘Mark Mahoney.’

Another piece of info about Infinitink in ‘too fickle for a tattoo?‘ Personally I love the permanence of tattoos and there’s always a cover-up option, isn’t there?