Category Archives: Tattoo ideas

Potions have featured prominently in stories about magic and magical beings for centuries. We’ve seen potions described as both positive and negative in popular culture, especially when it comes to the Harry Potter franchise. In the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, potions play a big part in the story throughout the Seven Books and Eight […]

Artists are not born with a distinctive style; they have to take a trip to find it. Sometimes that means traveling all over the world to experience different cultures in their quest for artistic inspiration. Anaïs Chabane grew up in France, but she was strongly influenced by Arab art which she experienced as a child […]

Picture this: you are a tattoo artist and you are heading for a walk-in tattoo day. Your first customer walks up and he’s a tough biker, so you’re like, “Phew, that’s gonna be a piece of cake. This guy is going to sit like a rock. You set up your station, put on the stencil […]

In my family, we have a motto: if it’s free, it’s for me. For many years this motto has guided me to countless meetings for clubs that I never planned to join entirely for the pledge of free food. This is what kept me working in a movie theater throughout high school and college because […]

Tattoos that disappear look like science fiction, a quirk from the wizarding world, or, to be more realistic, a poorly done tattoo. Growing up, if you wanted a tattoo that you wouldn’t take to the grave, you needed a bundle of temporary tattoos from the nearest Walmart or one of those 25-cent vending machines where […]

Almost 30 years ago, “Seinfeld” aired an episode called “The Pilot” where Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza visit NBC to create a pilot on their own lives, to have the project crumble like a house of cards. When comedian Chris Distefano introduced his pilot, “Distefano”, he hoped to emulate Seinfeld in real life, to end […]

by Jenna Romaine The year 2020 was to be a highlight for the darlings of pop-punk Dashboard Confessional. After two decades spent together, backed by seven studio albums and hit singles like “Screaming Infidelities”, “Hands Down” and “Vindicated”, singer Chris Carrabba and the band were on the first leg of a tour celebrating the 20th […]

To say that the past year has been difficult, frustrating and often exhausting would be an understatement to end all euphemisms. Sometimes you have to step away from the rest of the world and have a laugh or two before you get back on your feet and face whatever other challenges the day decides to […]

Hip-hop has always been political. MCs have used rap as a medium to discuss social issues – often injustices faced by people of color – since the genre’s earliest days in the Bronx. Even when hip-hop began to explode into the mainstream in the 1980s, the political advantage remained. Rap groups such as Public Enemy, […]

Today is National Pet Bird Day! OK, we know, every day is something national, but it gives us a great excuse to post some really beautiful bird tattoos. Not to mention, it also gives your humble writer the opportunity to complain about the horrors of having a bird in the house. To be clear, I’m […]