Ink City Headquarters

the Ink City guide

Body Art Is...
INK CITY WANTS YOU!
Exploring Body Art
See who just moved to Ink City!
Ink and Flash
Highlights from MODBLOG
Body Art Shopping
Groups of Interest
Piercing
Body Art Videos
New Ink City Lensmasters
Written in Flesh & Ink

Body Art Is...

Body Painting

Corsetry

Dermal Anchors

Afghanistan - Fancy nails by lorrainehutch

Fancy Manicure

Hair Dyeing

DDC - Perf @ Bunker : Implantation for suspension (01068) by Abode of Chaos

Hook Suspension

Lizard Man

Piercing

Scarification

Split Tongue

Sub-dermal Implant

Tattooing

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INK CITY WANTS YOU!

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Come join the Ink City Community! We're looking for

~ tattooing (esp tattoo artists!)
~ piercing
~ body sculpting (body sculpting, corsets, etc)
~ head and body shaving
~ elaborate fingernail painting
~ face and body painting
~ henna/mehandi
~ hair dyeing
~ scarification/cutting
~ dermal implants
~ tongue splitting

If any of that floats your boat, either as a practitioner or just a fan, make a lens and join INK CITY! Just remember, you'll need to have a body art slant to your lens.

Lenses that join the community will get the awesome city header added to them, AND you'll get the benefit of one of Squidoo's experienced lensmasters (that's me!) helping you think of new ways to boost traffic and improve content. And all of that means your lens can earn more for you or the charity of your choice!

Come join this cool new community experiment!

Do you have a body art lens that already exists? Want to get more traffic and make your lens easier for visitors to find? Body art lenses that already exist can come join Ink City too! The Big Squids are still developing the community tools, so for lenses that already exist, drop me a note and I'll have your lens moved over to the community.

Exploring Body Art

Branding (for body art)

Branding was most often used historically to mark property, most often livestock but also sometimes human. It was also utilized as a method of marking or punishing criminals both in Europe and Asia, and as recently as the founding US Pilgrim fa...

Mehandi - The Art of Henna

Most people will recognize "mehandi" by its Americanized name, as the art of henna body painting. Although often mistakenly identified as a "temporary tattoo" henna is done on the surface of the skin, not into it as with tat...

Body Art - Customize Yourself

Do you cut your hair or shave body hair? Paint your fingernails? Have any tattoo or piercing? Sculpt your body by wearing a corset? ....Welcome to the Body Art Club. Please let me know what you think of this lens by rating it....

New Horn Microdermal Implants!!!

MICRODERMALS are also known as single point piercing jewelry. Microdermals are so small that they can be inserted by just piercing a little hole in the skin. The flat part is inserted and just a small internally threaded bar exits. Microdermals can...

See who just moved to Ink City!

Here are the newest lenses in the community. Like what you see? Please make a lens and join us!

Reborn in the USA!, Design Your Own Tattoo, New Horn Microdermal Implants!!!, Paul Booth and Surreal Tattoos, Tattoo Shirts

Ink and Flash

tattooing and tattoo designs

Here are lenses about styles of tattooing, tattoo designs and lenses by tattoo artists.

Tattoos In The Movies

This lens is about tattoos from movies, including Wanted, the Blade Trilogy, Memento, The Number 23, From Dusk 'Til Dawn, Reign of Fire, Eastern Promises, and more. Shown here, Angelina Jolie from the new movie WANTED.

Japanese Tattoos

Japanese tattoos are known for their bold lines, historic patterns and imagery, and total body coverage. The techniques for tattooing that developed in Japan used hand tools, and it wasn't until the mid 20th century that machines first came to...

The Art and History of Tattooing

Tattooing is the form of skin art where pigment is permanently deposited below the skin surface, either by hand or machine methods. The methods were entirely done by hand until the late 1800s when the electric tattoo machine was invented. ...

Paul Booth and Surreal Tattoos

From the time I laid my eyes on my first Tattoo Magazine, I knew I wanted a Paul Booth Tattoo. The black and shades of gray work was unlike any that I have ever seen. His dark images of surrealism and his ability to make the tattoos appear like actua...

Highlights from MODBLOG

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Body Art Shopping

body jewelry, tattoo gifts and body art supplies

TATTOO CLOTHING

Fantastic club and streetwear, all decorated with the hottest tattoo designs! T-shirts, skirts, shoes, men's and women's clothing, all covered with tattooed rock star style. Lots of leather and denim, featuring great tattoo designs!

Find A Great Temporary Tattoo

Take a look at what's available in TEMPORARY TATTOOS!

The Tattoo Business

From the learning about the tattoo business to finding an apprenticeship to equipping your own tattoo shop, this lens offers all you need to get going as a working tattoo artist. You'll find tons of links to tattoo businesses, supply houses and compa...

Ed Hardy - Japanese Tattoo
24x36 Wall Poster
Buy From Art.com

Groups of Interest

Body Mod Headquarters: We humans deliberately do a lot of things to change the appearance of our bodies - branding, corsetry, piercing, tattooing, nail painting, shaving, body painting, hair cutting/growing/dyeing
The Tattoo Parlour Headquarters: This group is for tattoo enthusiasts on both sides of the needle! If you're researching getting a tattoo, you'll find lots of tattoo info and design ideas. If you're a tattoo artist, please build yourself a lens and join us!

Piercing

Tribal House Body Jewelry

Tribal House offers you the hottest tribal body jewelry styles anywhere! Steel, stone, glass, acrylic, and rubber; claws, spikes, talons, flares, plugs, spirals and more!

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Men's Genital Piercings

This lens is about men's genital piercings. It has descriptions of the various placements along with pictures showing some representative piercings, including the Ampallang, Apadravya, the Guiche and the Prince Albert.

Nose Rings and Piercings

It's only been in the last two decades that nose piercing has gained a mainstream popularity in Western culture. Presently, it is the second most-popular body piercing desired by teens and young adults. This lens will tell you about nose piercin...

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Female Genital Piercings

This lens is about women's genital piercings. It has descriptions of the various placements along with pictures showing some representative piercings, including clitoral hood piercings, the fourchette, and labia rings.