A Day at a Tattoo SHop

Watching movies in the past or hearing your friends talk about their experience when getting a tattoo can just sound so..hardcore! The common misconception might have been only rocker chicks, gang members, and biker dudes were showing off their elaborate ink work, but now tattoos have become such common nature in today's society.  From butterfly tattoos to the infamous tramp stamps and full sleeves, tattoos are starting to become the art people wish to express on their body. Looking around any college campus or maybe just at home you can find somebody with a tattoo using their body as more of an art project that requires hours of needle pricks, after treatment care, and probably an addiction to go out and get another tattoo.  Though tattoos have become such a common thing to do now a days I'm not so sure I am going to fall under the statistic as to how many college students leave with a degree and some ink work as well. The tattoo is permanent unless you want to spend thousands of dollars like my own brother, Jordan Cassidy, getting tattoos that have absolutely no meaning for him anymore at this point in his life. So my advice for the day is think not once, not twice, but repeatedly before you decide what you want to be a permanent birthmark on your body the rest of your life.

common sense?

Okay so this bill that has been passed to require higher licensing fees for tattoo parlors doesn't end there by no means. The bill that may seem as an inconvenience for some is a way to weed out others according to Andrew, the owner and tattoo artist of Lost Tiger Tattoos in Lansing. This bill high lights some other laws they want these tattoo parlors to abide by as well. Probably the most annoying would be announced check ups from the Health Department to look over everything from your customer records to how you have trash lids placed over every garbage bin. as well as submit to random inspections and train their employees is really what one would call the Health Department as really stepping their game up! Among other laws is the restriction that no artist under the influence of any kinda can perform tattoos or needle work while intoxicated...that would be major bad news. You ask for an I love mom tattoo with a heart and an arrow and instead you get a broken heart with the tattoo artists ex-girlfriend's name in the middle. More commonly though is the person wanting the tattoo being drunk at the time of the artwork being done. From a crazy spring break you want to remember or the next morning you wake up and see a woman's face on your arm and your married, they all happen though Michigan law forbids it.