the Ink City guide
Body Art Is...
Body Painting
Corsetry
Dermal Anchors
Fancy Manicure
Hair Dyeing
Hook Suspension
Lizard Man
Piercing
Scarification
Split Tongue
Sub-dermal Implant
Tattooing
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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Fakir Musafar
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Fakir Musafar has practiced myriad forms of body modification and has championed these practices as an essential part of spiritituality for many decades. Now as he approaches his 80th birthday, he's still teaching body piercing and branding at his own...
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Body Painting with Makeup or Liquid Latex
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Body painting can camouflage, enhance features, create the illusion of other textures and more. Theatrical or costume body painting often uses makeup or liquid latex. Each has its own effects and length of duration. Body paint can i...
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New Horn Microdermal Implants!!!
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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...
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Branding (for body art)
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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...
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!
Mehndi Tattoos, Are Tattoos An Addiction?, The Most Popular Female Tattoos, Toe Tattoos Facts and Designs, Hot Tattoo designs for women
Ink and Flash
tattooing and tattoo designs
Here are lenses about styles of tattooing, tattoo designs and lenses by tattoo artists.-
The Art and History of Tattooing
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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. ...
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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...
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Japanese Tattoos
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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...
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Getting a First Tattoo
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I'm brand new 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 come to the right pl...
Highlights from MODBLOG
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body jewelry, tattoo gifts and body art supplies
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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!
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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...
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 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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The Ins and Outs of Body Piercing
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Knowing as much as you can about the procedures used in body piercing, about healing and aftercare, or potential legal limits before you get anything done to your body can help ensure you have a better and more successful piercing experience in the l...
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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...
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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.
Body Art Videos
New Ink City Lensmasters
Written in Flesh & Ink
a guestbook for comments, questions and feedback
selfdefenseclique wrote...
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.
Posted June 29, 2009
relache wrote...
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.
Posted November 25, 2008
M.E.Morgan wrote
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 .
Posted November 24, 2008
DragonAsh wrote...
Dam wished i have found this too, but already made 6 tattoo lens
Posted October 03, 2008
