I want to get a tattoo on the upper part of my neck, like close to my hair if that makes any sense?
I can handle pain, I was just wondering if it was much worse than any other tattoo.
I have a hummingbird and a flower on my hip… Would it be worse than that one?

Thanks =)

I know someone who has got one.They said yes it hurts a bit more than other tattoos but it wasn’t agony and it was only like 15 minutes.

I can’t buy it online because i dont have a credit card. I need to find it in a store but idk what stores would sell it.

I dont have any tattoos, im using it to cover up some scars I have from the removal of cancer in my lower back.

does anyone know where i can find the tattoo cover up makeup that isnt online?

http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P231113&cm_mmc=us_search-_-GG-_-br%20katvond_conceal-_-S1236894062_ADOGOE_AGIo185180_CRE2379878027_TID109015240_RFDd3d3Lmdvb2dsZS5jb20=

Sephora…

Kat Von Dee’s tattoo CONCEALER worksd like a charm

It covers up scars perfectly…
and to help fade your scars use MEDERMA…my dad had cancer on his face…they gave him mederma….he’s scar free…
if u have tried it and it didnt work your not using it consitently…u must rub it into the scar several times a day…

Both of those items should really help

More specifically, I read that certain shades of purple may not be able to be removed by laser tattoo removal. Well guess what, I have a purple tattoo. So I was wondering precisely which shades of purple cannot be removed by lasers? Mine is a dark, but at the same time bright and kind of shiny, purple. Am I out of luck?

Only if it’s like a pale purple, like lilac…then it will be hard to remove. White is practically impossible, and yellow is very difficult. I had no trouble with red, black or green.

The laser reflects off of the color, and if the color is too light, it doesn’t work. Dark colors reflect best. I think you’ll be ok, although I’m a bit confused as to the dark/bright shiny purple description. If it’s dark, it will be ok.

I have 5 tattoo’s i would like removed, the biggest one is about 2 inches, all small. I don’t care about pain or scarring I just want something that is very effective in removal and cost friendly.
I am looking for something other than the laser as I know that is expensive and I am very sceptical about the creams. I figure if cream works all the harsher surgical procedures would of been long gone out the door. I am looking for something in between the two.

The creams are a waste of time and money…at the most, they lighten the tattoo up somewhat and I really think it is because it messes up the outer layer of skin and you just don’t see it as well.

Laser is the only real option for that many but not cheap and will require many sessions…you could have excision, however, and that is the quickest of all but surgical procedures don’t come cheap, either.

If it were just one small one, some artists do salt water removal but you have too big of a job for that it seems. This is tattooed in, unlike salabrasion where that is rubbed on the skin…no one really does that any more.

When you have decided that you really want a tattoo and you know of a tattoo artist you might use then the next step is choosing on a tattoo design you like. From this time on is where the hard work starts. Looking for the tattoo shop is the easy part but deciding on what tattoo you want will take work. There are so many different kinds of tattoos to choose from it makes it pretty hard to find which tattoo design will be best.

It is a lot of fun searching through many different tattoos. The look of tattoo that you decide to go with will be your own personal preference but there are many different tattoos that are common more than others. For instance, a celtic cross tattoo is much more popular with a male than a red rose tattoo that is very popular with females.

Choosing colors for a tattoo design vary and all depend on what you like. Butterfly tattoo designs don’t necessarily have to be colorful, but can also be purple or brown as there are many different meanings with colors. Styles of the tattoo designs will change also depending on the type of body art.

A skull tattoo will tend to be in larger format with bold dark colors, while a dragon tattoo design will have many pieces and dark colors. A rose tattoo can be any different colors, shape and size.

Choosing a place on your body is part of the entire process. Your tattoo can be put anywhere on your body and some people will go overboard and place a tattoo in odd places such as; the top of the head, under the neck, on fingers, feet and many other places you can think of. What is popular for women might not be as popular for men, such as women love to have tattoos placed on the lower back, upper back or on the ankle, while men tend to have tattoos placed on the upper arm, shoulder or back. It is about style and person preference that matters. You can not go wrong with placing your tattoo, it doesn’t matter where you put it.

As you can see, the choice of tattoos are endless and finding the right tattoo for you may seem like a huge task but of course there are resources that you can use to look for your tattoo.

The internet can be a great place to start your research as there are websites related to tattoos all over the place. There are many galleries and pictures that you can look through to get a better idea of what tattoos are available. Most sites will try to sell you templates of designs, which might be of good to take to your tattoo artist.

If its too hard to find a unique tattoo on the Internet, you can always go to your tattoo artist and ask for a sketch of a tattoo that you may be thinking about. Having your tattoo artist do this will cost more but may be worth it in the long run since when a tattoo is put on it will cost much more to have it removed. Be sure to spend a lot of time looking for your tattoo and search through as many different designs as possible as it will help you make a decision.

Derek Cladek
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-articles/follow-these-steps-for-getting-a-new-tattoo-109212.html

The business of tattoo removal continues to grow each year. This is because many of those that have tattoos are now beginning to regret them and or are not allowed to have visible tattoos at their place of employment. However, if one wants to get rid of their tattoo, what options do they have? Laser Treatments? Surgery? Topical Treatments?

The first option most people think of is to use a high-powered laser to directly target the pigments in the tattoo until the tattoo is removed. Unfortunately this process is extremely expensive as well as painful. When you try to remove a tattoo via laser treatments, it will require multiple visits depending on the size of the tattoo. These treatments can easily run into the thousands of dollars sometimes costing upwards of $10,000 to thoroughly remove an intricate tattoo. Additionally, most people that use a laser treatment to remove a tattoo complain that it was more painful than having the original tattoo done in the first place.

Another option to have a tattoo removed is having it surgically removed through Dermabrasion techniques. This process is essentially having the skin removed via sand paper until the new skin eventually replaces the tattooed skin. As with laser treatments, this process is expensive and obviously extremely painful which is why it is not recommended and not used by many people.

Finally, there is the alternative option of using a topical tattoo remover like Tat-Med. For the purposes of this article, I will examine both the strengths as well as the weaknesses of Tat-Med.

To begin, it is important to examine the ingredients used in TatMed. The most obvious ingredients are Alpha Arbutin and Kojic Acid. Alpha Arbutin is arguably the most important ingredient used today in skin lightening treatments such as tattoo removal gels. This is because this specific ingredient has been proven to be effective while at the same time remaining safe to use on the skin. In addition, Kojic Acid has also been proven to be effective and is not as harsh as the name makes it sound.

In fact, Kojic Acid is so safe it is also used on fruits to prevent them from changing color once they are cut. These are the two most important ingredients used in TatMed and are also what help distinguish it from the rest of the other tattoo removal products available. This is because although a few other treatments do rely on these ingredients some tattoo removal products use the potentially harmful TCA (Trichloroacetic Acid). While TCA is recommended by some skin care professionals, there are risks of using a chemical peel at home. If something were to go wrong, you would be extremely limited in terms of receiving immediate medical care.

On the negative side, the ingredients used in tattoo removal creams and gels like Tat-Med may take longer to see results than using a laser to remove the unwanted tattoo.

In conclusion, based on the effectiveness of the ingredients used in Tat-Med, I believe that Tat-Med can fade and help erase unwanted tattoos without risking one’s health.

John Sate
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/tatmed-review-can-it-fade-and-help-erase-tattoos-1112997.html

Do you have a plan? Most companies spend a considerable amount of time, energy, and money planning what to do and how to do it.

Let’s say you need a website, so you develop a plan, present it to a bunch of website designers, and get quotes or proposals. You’re not going to get caught with your pants down like the last time by some nerdy geek, you know the skinny kid with the scraggly beard, whose techno-babble gave you a headache, or the bizarre young lady dressed in gothic chic with the black lipstick and tattoo to match – yikes, no thanks, not this time, this time you got a plan.

Human Motivational Optimization

You read all the blogs on website design, you know all the ins-and-outs of search engine optimization, and Google Adwords. No one is going to pull a fast one on you. You know your business, your market, and your needs. Or do you?

How much do you really know about how real people interact with your website? How much do you really know about what we call Human Motivational Optimization? All the stats, logs, and number crunching analysis that forms the basis of many website development plans does not truly give you the visceral understanding of how to connect to an audience, and isn’t that what you want your website to do?

So maybe your plan is the wrong plan; it’s like planning a trip to Home Depot to buy a cabbage; it just doesn’t make sense. So how about a plan that does make sense, something simple, understandable, easy to implement, that is if you hire the right people to do it. But before we tell you the four steps to creating your very own Website Branding Plan, let’s talk about Don LaFontaine.

Every Company Needs A Movie Trailer

Chances are you don’t know who the late Don LaFontaine was, but you’ve heard his voice many, many times. Don was the most famous and influential voice behind thousands of movie and television trailers. He had a distinctive deep, gravely voice, and a writing style that reinvented the entire movie trailer format. But why should you care? Simple. Movie trailers are the ultimate elevator pitch, a short memorable performance that compels you to action, kind of like what a mission statement is suppose to do, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning, or rather, the end.

Branding Starts With Thinking Backwards

Most people like to start a project at the beginning and work their way through until they reach the end. Makes sense, or does it? If you don’t start with where you want to end-up, it’s unlikely you’ll ever get where you want to go. Remember our cabbage? Planning a shopping to trip to Home Depot because they got cool stuff, doesn’t help if what you want is a cabbage.

Branding is no different. If you don’t start with how you want your audience to think about you, they will probably never think about you at all. So now that we got that straight let’s start our plan where it makes sense, the end.

The 4 Step Web-Branding Plan

1. The Slogan

Your slogan, you know the thing that sits underneath your logo, that simple little phrase somebody in your office came up with that makes you sound important, stuff like “the cool air conditioning company.” Most small and medium size companies don’t think too hard about this little marketing gem, and as a result they either have something really cheesy, or some meaningless platitude that has no memorable meaning at all, like “the best people for the best job.”

Just because you’re small and don’t have millions of dollars to spend on television ads promoting your pithy little motto, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have one. That catchphrase is who you are, and how you want people to remember you, short, memorable, and to the point. I remember my sons arguing over some complicated bit of business when one of them in frustration finally said, “Enough already. Give it to me in one word or less!” a demand to articulate what was important without all the peripheral issues; a lesson all businesses should pay attention to.

2. The Story Line (Logline)

To my mind, mission statements are a totally dysfunctional marketing element, misused and abused by a bean-counter attitude, born out of trying to squeeze every last drop of information into a statement that won’t offend anybody. A wise man once said, “If what you’re saying doesn’t offend somebody, maybe you’re not saying anything” and most mission statements that are full of meaningless platitudes and toned-down amendments, fall into the category of not saying anything, at least, anything worth hearing.

Okay so let’s forget about mission statements, after all this isn’t the military, and we’re not planning the next Desert Storm. Instead let’s think loglines, or what you can think of as your brand story line.

You know those short statements you find in TV Guide, or your weekend television insert, prompting you to watch the next episode of ‘House,’ or ‘Desperate Bimbos.’ They are a short form text version of a trailer, intended to get you to watch the movie or television show. For our purposes, we want people to go to our website, and stay-tuned long enough to get our core marketing message, and not walk out half way through the presentation. So, how do we do that?

The Six Elements of Effective Web Trailers

In order for us to come up with a compelling statement that prompts people to view our website presentation, we need to refer back to our old pal Don LaFontaine. What if Don LaFontaine wrote our website trailer. How would he do it?

Don had a very distinctive style that you’ve heard a thousand times for a thousand different movies, but they all followed a similar format. Each trailer needs to cover six distinct elements, who, what, where, how, why, and when. All the things businesses should be presenting in their elevator pitch, but with one extra ingredient, personality.

Here’s the format used in many movie trailers:
“In a place (where), one man (who) brings stability to chaos (what), in an epic tale that will both amaze and inspire (why)! Coming soon (when) to a theatre near you.” Sound familiar?

Let’s take our air conditioning example, you remember, “the cool air conditioning company.” Let’s say our fictitious company is called Kool Air Conditioning, their website trailer might sound something like this:

“In a town where summer heat melts the cool of the coolest homeowners, one air conditioning company comes to the rescue. When the mercury rises to eye-popping, mind numbing numbers, the men from Kool spring into action, bringing relief to the sweltering masses. The Kool Guys will amaze you with their prompt service and installation know-how. The heat is on. It’s coming sooner than you think; it’s coming this summer to your town, your neighborhood; your house. Kool, the cool air conditioning company.”

Over-the-top? Maybe, but we’ve covered all the bases, we know who (Kool), what (air conditioning), when (this summer), where (your house), why (the heat) and how (prompt service and installation know-how). Now that’s a mission statement; one with a little style, panache, and personality; one that will get you remembered and prompt your audience to action.

3. The Personality

Movies like businesses all fall into certain genres or categories. There’s the action movie format that’s suitable for sports related businesses, the chick flick style that’s ideal for cosmetic or fashion industry businesses, and the family comedy format suitable for entertainment and recreation based companies, and of course the kids movie version perfect for any business selling things for children. The point is that every company and website has to have a personality.

Many hardnosed business executives scoff at the idea of spending money on such seemingly trivial marketing concepts as company personality, but ignoring your website persona, is a big mistake. You can either invest a little in developing, creating, managing, and promoting this personality or you can let the marketplace decide for itself, or worse, find you completely redundant and irrelevant.

4. The Delivery

You may be asking yourself, this sounds good on paper, but can it really be done, and can it be done for my business, on my website? The answer is damn straight it can. Like most things in life, and in business, it’s not grasping the concept that so hard, it’s implementing it.

With a little investment and a willingness to take some chances, you can be the market leader. But if you thought you could simply take your newly created movie trailer style website elevator pitch and slap it onto your website in text form, you would be mistaken. How you deliver the message is as important, and in many cases more important, than what you say.

Whether you sell lipstick, licorice, or lingerie, you probably have lots of competition, so how you deliver your message is what’s going to make the difference.

You want your website presentation to motivate people to email or phone. You want to deliver a compelling performance that is more than a sales pitch, a presentation that uses voice, visuals, words, and music to create a website personality, a lasting impression; one that is going to allow you to stand out from the crowd and give you a competitive advantage.

Nothing will convince better than seeing an actual example, and guess what, we just happen to be able to provide you with one: check out http://www.SonicPersonality.com and see what an effective website presentation sounds like. If nothing else, you may get a chuckle or two.

Jerry Bader
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/the-plan-4-steps-to-a-website-brand-742753.html

Is there anything better in life than spending a relaxing afternoon at a spa? Enjoying a massage or perhaps a rejuvenating skin care treatment offers us a chance to relax and forget about the trials and tribulations of day-to-day life.

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be part of the spa industry? Demand for spa services has grown at an incredible rate over the last decade, and the need for qualified professionals is at an all time high. Imagine a relaxed work environment where your primary objective is to help your client look and feel their best.

The first step to getting involved is training. There are numerous schools available nationwide that are dedicated to helping to prepare you to develop your knowledge and confidence in providing these popular services.

Skin care professionals are often called estheticians or facial specialists. Most states require specific training and licensure of these professionals, and this is most often regulated by the local cosmetology board. Completion of esthetics training and successful navigation of the local state license application process can open opportunities for employment at spas, salons, physician offices, or allow you the chance to start your own business.

An exciting new trend in the skin care industry is the emergence of medical spas. A medical spa typically represents the fusion of esthetics and medicine. The result is the ability to provide skin care services with more significant, and often permanent, cosmetic enhancements utilizing high-technology devices such as a laser.

These services might include wrinkle reduction, skin tightening, cellulite reduction, hair removal, tattoo removal, and several other treatments designed to resolve specific imperfections or to help fight the effects of aging. These services are typically non-invasive, which means that there is no cutting or bleeding, and virtually no negative after effects or down-time. In other words, these are services that you can schedule on your lunch break just like traditional spa services.

With a medical spa and medical aesthetic services, seeking proper training is more important than ever. As this segment of the industry continues to grow, more consistent regulations and standardized training requirements will follow.

In most states, the regulation of medical spas has been left to the state medical board. The first state to establish specific regulations for medical aesthetic professionals is Arizona. The Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency (ARRA) has helped to established state authorized private laser training schools. With the success of the ARRA program, additional states are likely to follow suit in the coming years.

When selecting an institute for medical aesthetics for laser training, there are a few things to consider in order to be sure that you are going to receive the most comprehensive training program possible. How experienced are the faculty members? Does the faculty include a physician instructor and additional medical and aesthetic professionals? What specific certifications or licensing are offered? Do they offer a limited number or a wide range of certifications? Have they invested in a number of technologies for you to utilize at the school to make certain that you are well prepared upon graduation? Are they a professional organization with a full-time dedication to training and research?

The future of the spa industry is here, and the quality of the training you receive at this early stage of your new career will have a lasting impact on your confidence and success as a professional.

Jason Begley
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/how-to-start-a-career-in-skin-care-119032.html

Tattoos speak a language of your heart. They bring out your emotions and lifestyle. You can use your tattoo designs as a mode of expression. Many individuals use tattoos to communicate various things, necessarily their personality. Some also use them to express love and emotions. Tattoo lovers perceive their body as a canvas wherein the tattoo art form is to be engraved. Normally, women prefer small tattoo pictures and designs with lucid colors.

Tattoos are as exclusive as the particular individual sporting them. However, there are many citizens existing in a world where tattoo as a form of art is not socially relevant, especially in commercial offices or a work place. It is places like these, where small tattoo pictures come to our rescue. Any tattoo can be prepared in a smaller size, however, up to a certain point.

Particular designs cannot be made small owing to their meticulous and intricate style. Small tattoo designs are mostly favored as they are less conspicuous and obstructive and can be hidden very easily. Now it is important to know where a tattoo should be carved on your body. Although this question may appear insignificant to some, bear in mind, a tattoo will remain on you for the rest of your days. Therefore, placing it well is vital.

This short editorial brings into focus the pros and cons of inking different parts of your body with a much loved small tattoo. The head, neck and face are much preferred areas. An unusual and interesting position or spot is the back of the neck for the tattoo work.

This is one place which increases the beauty and makes the look much more elegant, when deep necks are worn. Even at parties and in the sleeveless and strap apparels, this region of the body is the best choice. Wearing your hair in a long untied fashion can easily hide the small tattoo pictures.

For tattoos done on a head region, generally, the sides of the head over the ears or the area immediately above the nape of the neck is chosen. This is advantageous as you can grow your hair if you want to hide it. Breasts and upper chests are another tattoo spots which are in vogue for males as well as females. This largely flat area is chosen for a colorful and detailed tattoo. Breast tattoos are very popular with the female gender. For women who have strapless outfits and wear deep necklines, tiny tattoo designs on the breast make their looks even more appealing. These are considered sexy and cool.

Inking tattoos at the belly button is one of the places chosen by women who intend to look hot. Slim figured tummies increase the beauty of this region with tiny designs used to decorate the belly button. Another fantastic place for small tattoo pictures design is the ankle. This is becoming widely popular and is preferred by artists too.

Thus small tattoo pictures are a cute and sexy way of flaunting your style in any part of the body. They give a choice to enjoy the body art in daily life, while hide them in office hours.

Wincent Loh

Choosing a tattoo is difficult. If it isn’t, you have not done your homework. Too often, newcomers will stroll into their local tattoo parlor, pick up a few books or checkout the artwork on the walls, and thirty minutes later sit down in the chair for their session.

This is crazy! Call it short-sighted, or having too much faith in tattoo removal technology (dubious odds, at best), but for something that will be on your body for your entire life, you really need to take a few steps back, slow down, and take your time making a design choice. Here are a few steps that you should consider taking so that you don’t end up with a visible reminder of your bad decision.

Choose your location first: where you get your tattoo often has an impact on the style that you choose. For example, a tattoo that looks good on your lower back likely has a far different style than one that will be placed on your shoulder. Start with the location.

Next choose your design: first narrow down your selection into a style of tattoo that you like, and then narrow it further by finding several designs within that style that appeal to you.

Test drive your design: get some professional transfer paper — this is the paper that tattoo artists use to transfer designs from their books to your skin. Trace the design onto the transfer paper, optionally using a lightbox for assistance. Then have a friend transfer the design onto your skin and fill it in with fine-tipped permanent markers in the appropriate colors. It doesn’t have to be perfect — you just want to make sure the size, style, and colors agree with you.

Sleep on it: now just take your time, continue observing your test tattoo, and trying on different designs. You can see, with a high degree of accuracy and realism, what that tattoo is going to look like on your skin. If you don’t like, just scrub really hard and try again with a clean canvas! Eventually you’ll find a perfect design.

Additionally, if your tattoo will include a lettering style, don’t limit yourself to what you see in the parlor’s books. There are literally thousands of freeware fonts that you can download and install on your computer. You can use a graphics program (even a free one like gimp) to add the lettering to your tattoo design of choice, and then transfer it to your skin with the rest of the test tattoo. Like the design, you’ll eventually find a font that is perfect for your new tattoo.

To some, this sounds like a lot of work, and that’s true. But this tattoo will be with you for a lifetime, so you will want to do your research. Use a tattoo finder to locate a great design, browse through the many free fonts available online, and test drive all of the promising tattoo designs before you ink them permanently. Your effort will be rewarded many fold in the years to come.

Ben Swank