As part of my revamping the Body Piercings for Beginner's Guide, I have 2 pages finished and available for viewing. More will follow in coming weeks, including some new piercing types that haven't previously been covered here before.

Eyebrow Piercing Guide

Monroe Piercing Guide

Over the past ten years, I have received many, many tattoo submissions. Admittedly, some of them did not meet up to my personal standards of quality, but I posted them anyway for a variety of reasons. Some were inked by friends, some were unique in concept even if not so great in execution, and some were just simply lousy photos of really good tattoos and I hated to avoid posting good work just because the photo was shoddy. But now that I have so many submission to choose from, I am starting to put together new collections of only good photos of good tattoo work. Some may still be better than others, but I've eliminated a lot of sub-par images from the mix. The first of many new and improved tattoo galleries is the Fantasy and Science Fiction ensemble. There are currently 75 photos in this gallery, all of good or better quality. It should be an enjoyable experience browsing through this gallery and I appreciate all of the wonderful contributions over the years that made this collection possible!

red road writes:

"I decided, after months of debate...and a lot of research, I decided to go to a very well thought after studio in the UK, I knew a lot of people who had pieces done by the lead tattooist and his apprentice and the studio had been featured in many tattooing magazines and has alot of awards...I decided to go with the apprentice, his design was good and he was really patient when i wanted to change little bits and pieces before hand, so i felt confident going a long for my 1st 6 hour sitting. This is of course when things began to go wrong......"

Find out what happened to red road and join the conversation to add your advice on the situation!

Wyoming tattoo shop owner, Steven Martinez, has been charged with felony voyeurism for videotaping women without their knowledge or permission while he pierced their genitals in his tattoo studio. His defense is that sometimes he works alone in the shop and doesn't have any witnesses if a woman were to claim that he did something inappropriate, so he takes the videos to prove that everything was professional. If that's the case, though, why wouldn't he inform the women they were being recorded and have them sign a waiver for their, and his, protection? I actually think taking video for personal protection is a good idea because it's very likely that a tattoo artist or piercer will, at some point, be falsely accused of inappropriate behavior. But these things should be clearly disclosed to the client beforehand and if they are uncomfortable with that, they can go somewhere else.

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