Laser Tattoo Removal Tattoo removal has come a long way since the days of carving or acid burning. Thankfully, tattooing has also come a long way since when it was used to brandish criminals or prisoners and those gruesome removal methods were used to leave the past behind. However, while we may no longer [...]
How Does Tattoo Ink Work? The global tattoo ink market is worth about $3.5 billion. And despite a hiccup in the trajectory (as for so many other plans and estimates) in 2020, it is expected to continue to grow in the years to come. It is the means for creating some truly spectacular and [...]
Do Tattoo Removal Creams Actually Work? We are slowly emerging from the double haze of 2020 and New Year’s Eve, even though the latter may have been slightly less of an exuberant party occasion than normally. However, it is still a new year and with that comes the inevitable desire to reinvent oneself. A [...]
Tattoo Glossary T to Y T Tattoo Machine — the proper name for that which most artists today use to apply the ink to a person’s skin. The first version uses rotary technology, with an electric motor to drive the needles. Its succesor, the coil machine is considered the standard for modern tattooing. An [...]
Tattoo Glossary O - S O Old School — also known as American Traditional. Features bold black lining, two-dimensional with no shading, and draw from a set of images and symbolism, like eagles, skulls, roses, and pin-up girls. Ornamental — in architecture and decorative art, an ornamental piece is one that is used to [...]
Tattoo Glossary - D to N D Dotwork — a style of tattooing entirely made up of dots of different sizes and different distances from each other. Where they are closer together, the tattoo will be denser. Where they are further apart, it will be more spacious. Sometimes it encompasses linework to create contours, [...]
Tattoo Glossary - A to C Ever felt like you need to Urban Dictionary some of the things you hear around a tattoo studio? Or on blogs like this for that matter? We decided to do a thorough run-through of all the jargon and terminology you may come across while hanging around a tattoo shop, be [...]
Laser Tattoo Removal Part II Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. They emit a single colour/wavelength light through a process of optical amplification in a narrow beam or series of pulses. The lasers used to remove tattoos work with pulses that last nanoseconds, or, as has recently become [...]
Laser Tattoo Removal Since we mentioned laser removal in the last blog, as a means to making it easier to get a good cover up result, we thought we’d take a look at the actual science behind it. In this first part, we get a little nerdy on history. In the next post, we [...]
What makes tattoo ink permanent? The immune system has gotten a lot of press lately. Nor surprisingly, as a strong and healthy one will protect you from things like viruses. And, if you do catch one (not naming names), it can make sure you recover faster. But your immune system and its response is [...]
