Why do people get tattoos?

Inked: Fox's Watters Takes On Tattoo Nation

Factor' producer Jesse Watters ventures to Coney Island in order to find out why people get tattoos. Watters also questions the tattoo nation on politics and who they support in the upcoming election.


O'REILLY: "Back of the Book" segment tonight, "Watters World," it's estimated 15 percent of Americans have tattoos, and that number rises to 40 percent in the age group 26 to 40.

Now, there is not a social stigma that there used to be among the tattooed people, but they can still be a breed apart, as Jesse Watters found out.

See the video HERE


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You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

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Regulations for Military Tattoos

Tattoo Regulations In The Military

Once limited to the parts of the body covered by long sleeved shirts and pants, the army now allows tattoos on the backs of the hands and on the back side of the neck. The primary requirement is that they are not “extremist, indecent, sexist, or racist”, per Army Regulation 670-1.

There’s only one reason the United States Army relaxed its restriction on tattoos. They realized that they were turning highly qualified individuals away over their skin art. One caveat is that the military still reserves the right to determine what is in good taste, so it might be a good idea to run it by your commanding officer before actually having needle put to skin. There also remains a limit on how many tattoos can cover any area. There are no sleeves or Japanese suits for soldiers, at least for right now.

Read more HERE
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers.  Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.

You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.

Getting Rid of Your Butt Tattoo Has Never Been Easier!

'America's Worst Tattoos': Man Has His Parents' Faces Tattooed On His Buttocks

On the Series Premiere of "America’s Worst Tattoos" (Thu., 10 p.m. ET on TLC) viewers were introduced to John.

He loves his parents so much that he decided to have portraits of them tattooed onto his body. On his buttocks, to be precise. Ouch!

"For Mother’s Day, I decided to get my mom's face tattooed on my butt cheek," said John, showing off his mom's face on his posterior. "My mom cried when she first saw it."

Next, "I got my dad’s face tattooed on my ass. ... My dad, who is the king of not showing emotion, sent me a text message that said, 'You rock!'"
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers.  Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.

You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.

Military Tattoo or Military Tattoos?

If you would like to get a military tattoo and are stationed in the Rhode Island area, visit Inflicting Ink Tattoo Studio in Portsmouth. We gladly take walk-ins and appointments and offer state of the art sterile facilities for both tattooing and laser tattoo removal.

2 Tattoos or not 2 Tattoos?

by Star

Two Tattoos? Let’s ponder that question. And no, I don’t mean the question of whether or not a second tattoo is needed. What I want to lay out for you is why “tattoo” is in our book twice.

Does tattoo have two meanings? Yes. It does.

One you probably knew (and the other one):

tattoo #78: Military tattoos–the skin art kind to mark with an indelible design by inserting pigment into punctures in the skin or a design made in such a way

tattoo #730: Tattoo–a thrill to experience a military display consisting of music, marching, and exercises or an evening drum or bugle signal recalling soldiers to their quarters

(Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press)

If you’re like me, maybe you’ve seen and enjoyed a festival that included fife and drum corps, the sound of bagpipes and bugles, and people in “very military” looking uniforms. You just didn’t know that may have been a “tattoo.”

Next to the Fourth of July’s fireworks and patriotic music and parades, these types of events hold a special place in my heart. That feeling only grew fonder when I later found out that these “very military” looking uniformed performers were borne of military tradition and history. I was just slow to realize.

The term “tattoo” dates from the seventeenth century’s British Army days. Drummers from the garrison were sent out into the towns at 2130—that’s #770 or Military time for 9:30pm—each evening to inform the soldiers that it was time to return to barracks. The process was known as “doe den tap toe” and encouraged the innkeepers to turn off the taps, stop serving beer, and send the soldiers home for the night.

I can’t help but wonder if soldiers were not only being called from the inns but out of the “tattoo parlors” as well.

According to PBS, tattoos for early-American military members were a tradition started in 1846 by Martin Hildebrandt who set up a permanent tattoo shop in New York City and began tattooing sailors and military servicemen from both sides of the Civil War. I can easily imagine them fresh from the fields of war celebrating the latest successful battle or memorializing their fallen brothers forever marked on their hearts and skin.

Read more HERE
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers.  Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.

You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.

Underage Tattoo Sanctioned by Family for 10 Year Old

10-year-old gets 'family' tattoo

By Kaitlyn Ross

In the Garrison family, it's a tradition.

"He got his initials out there on the right leg at the very bottom," said Jerry Garrison.

All of the family members have their initials in ink.

So when Jerry Garrisson's 10 year old grandson wanted his initials tattooed on his leg...

"I didn't see why a tattoo was such a big issue to begin with, and I didn't see where none of this was right,' he said.

Garrisson says the Florida Department of Children and Families came to his Jacksonville home with another concern, and when they saw his grandson's tattoo, they told him it was a problem.

Because of other allegations, DCF placed his grandkids in foster care.

"My little son called me and said, Dad, I'm so scared, I want to come home so bad. When you have your youngin' call and tell you he's scared. I want to go put my arms around him and say son, it's all right, it's really all right. But no, I can't," he said.

He thinks the tattoo played a role in DCF removing his grandkids, and doesn't know how to fix it.

"I ain't never been in pain like this, it's the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. In my whole entire life," he said.

Department of Children and Families Spokesman John Harrell says it wasn't the tattoo, but additional allegations that had the children removed.

"When you get in to cases like this, is the child being abused? Is the child at risk? Are the actions of the parents putting the child at risk," said Harrell.

Legally, the tattoo isn't DCF's call.

But in the business for 20 years, tattoo artist Todd Lake says it's just wrong.

"We'll tattoo down to the age of 16, don't really like to do that," said Lake.

Lake says legally the standards in Florida have changed in the past year.

"Under the old law, I believe you probably could bring your kid in, legally, with notarized parental consent. But right now it's probably a big gray area in the law. So that's a tough case," said Lake.

The law did change in 2012.

Previous to the new law, it was legal to tattoo a child with expressed parental consent.

Under the new law, a child under the age of 16 cannot be tattooed unless it is for medical or dental reasons.

It is a misdemeanor for the tattoo artist, not for the guardian of the child.

Children 16-18 can be tattooed with parental consent.

And once a person turns 18, it's their choice.

No arrests have been made in this case.

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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers.  Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.

You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.

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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers.  Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.

You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.

Tattoos More Accepted By Many

Tattoos: a step towards social freedom

April 26, 2012
Aaron Stuckel

I’ve been pondering the possibility of getting a tattoo recently. But, in doing so, I’ve had to consider the troubled history of those who’ve gone under the needle.

People have been permanently decorating their bodies longer than Christianity has been around. It was often used as a means of therapy for arthritis, or a sign of loyalty to the gods or country.

More recently, tattoos have been associated with criminals. Gangs have long used tattoos as a way to identify themselves to one another, while many convicts have tattooed themselves as a certain type of badge of honour.

It seems to me though, that ten years ago, tattoos were not as socially acceptable as they are now.
Even many professionals today now go to their daily meetings with ink up their arms.
But what has caused this change?

Well, personally I think there has been a shift in our culture that has allowed people to express themselves without fear of being judged. The constant hunt for political correctness and objectivity in the hiring process has changed the way employers react to a little bit of ink on the wrists of job-hunting hopefuls.

I asked my own employer if she would change her opinion on a prospective employee if they had tattoos. Though she said someone with facial ink would probably change her perspective (have you seen Mike Tyson lately?), she said it’s unlikely that some modest colourings would alter their chances at a job.

But something else in her answer struck me as an important factor. She said she often doesn’t see her prospective employees because so much of the hiring process is now done online.

It’s hard not to notice the affects that the advent of the Internet have had on our world. But besides the looming elimination of paper and the ease of which we can now communicate with each other, there is anonymity in the virtual world that allows people to freely express themselves. And we can do that without others judging those expressions based on physical appearance.

Somehow this attitude seems to have seeped into the physical world. Though racism and bullying are still big problems in our society, I think we as a society have moved in the right direction in the sense that more and more of us base our opinions on others on how they treat us, and not how they look.
In many ways, tattoos are the most personal form of art. They likely have some meaning to those who wear them and are their forever. They become as much part of the person as their fingers and toes.

The fact that they are more accepted socially now than ever before tells me that we can and will end bigger problems like racism and bullying.

I will most definitely be getting a tattoo, if not just to express myself, than at least to stand up and say that if you can accept my tattoo, than you can accept anyone.

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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers.  Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.

You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.

For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.