the Ink City guide
INK CITY WANTS YOU!
Make a new lens or add one you that's already created
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!
Exploring Body Art
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BoingBoing Goes BodyArt
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BoingBoing has their fingers on the pulse of many modern currents, including body modification. With connections direct to the extreme cutting edge, they link to where bodies are explored, modified, digitally photographed and uploaded. Your rig...
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Corsetry, Tight-Lacing and Waist-Training
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Corsetry, also called tight-lacing or waist-training, refers to the practice of wearing a boned garment that laces tightly around the body, thus reducing the waist measurement. Corseting can be done occasionally for fashion purposes or pursued...
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Body Art - Customize Yourself
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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....
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Mehandi - The Art of Henna
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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...
See who just moved to Ink City!
Here are the newest lenses in the community. Like what you see? Make a lens and join us!
Think Before you Ink, Mehndi Tattoos, Toe Tattoos Facts and Designs, Hot Tattoo designs for women, Reborn in the USA!
Ink and Flash
tattooing and tattoo designs
Here are lenses about styles of tattooing, tattoo designs and lenses by tattoo artists.-
Getting a First Tattoo
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I'm brand new (well, now I have 2) to the topic of "tats", "ink", tattoos" ... whatever you want to call them. If you have never had a tattoo, are contemplating one or are brand new to the idea (like I am), you've...
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Tattoos In The Movies
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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. You will find pictures, DVDs and stories about those great tattoos you see at the movi...
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Paul Booth and Surreal Tattoos
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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...
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Tribal Tattoos
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This lens will show you the history of tribal tattoos and explore the modern stylizations of these designs. Get information on the tribal tattoo styles of Borneon, Polynesian, New Zealand, Hawaiian and other forms of tribal tattooing. If you li...
Highlights from MODBLOG
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body jewelry, tattoo gifts and body art supplies
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Find A Great Temporary Tattoo
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Take a look at what's available in TEMPORARY TATTOOS! These aren't the smeared and blurry Cracker Jack stick-ons from your childhood! Get professional quality and real-looking temporary skin art.
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www.oztatz.com
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Hi and thanks for visiting Oztatz. We are a tattoo and piercing supply company in Australia and have just branched out into Canada and New Zealand. We have top quality tattoo supplies and piercing products and between us, have been in the tattooing i...
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TATTOO CLOTHING
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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!
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
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Female Genital Piercings
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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.
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Tribal House Body Jewelry
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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!
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Men's Genital Piercings
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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.
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Nose Rings and Piercings
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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...
New Ink City Lensmasters
Written in Flesh & Ink
a guestbook for comments, questions and feedback
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- selfdefenseclique selfdefenseclique Jun 29, 2009 @ 4:15 am
- Nice lens,
i went through your lens it is really awesome. i went through the different techniques of being artist with your help. i really found your above information interesting and wonderful.
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- relache relache Nov 25, 2008 @ 5:48 pm | in reply to M.E.Morgan
- You're going to want to go to a doctor and get an X-ray. Having a piece of metal moving around inside your body is potentially life-threatening. I'd also recommend getting trained on procedures such as dermal implants rather than just experimenting on yourself blindly.
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- M.E.Morgan M.E.Morgan Nov 24, 2008 @ 5:52 pm
- I am a new piecrer and i am very interested in microdermal anchors I recently tried to give my self one right above my left wrist and every thing went smoothly except for the fact that after I removed the insertion tool I lost the base in my arm and can't seem to be able to find it doe's anyone have ANY suggestions as to what I might be able to do about it .
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- DragonAsh DragonAsh Oct 3, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
- Dam wished i have found this too, but already made 6 tattoo lens
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- relache relache Sep 29, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
- By all means, make more!
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