Whether it took you five minutes, fifteen hours or more to get your new tattoo, you’ll want to take care of it properly. The right follow-up can be the difference between an ink that stays beautiful and a tattoo that becomes blurry, discolored, and worse, infected. Only 7 states require their health departments to approve […]
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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 […]
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For some, committing to a new tattoo is fun, and committing to each new image is part of the experience. But for others (hi), the idea of committing to a tattoo forever is scary at best and insurmountable at worst, which means that there are a lot of people out there who love the look […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Dos and Don’ts After Getting a Tattoo | Photo credit: Instagram For everyone, getting inked is a great moment of pride. You are then part of the inked club, in which you wear this personalized piece of art for the rest of your life (unless you decide to go for a laser and cancel it). […]
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As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write things that we love and think you will like, too. If you purchase a product that we have recommended, we may receive an affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work. One of the perks of spending the last year limiting the time we spend in social […]
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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, […]