Get the tattooed look – fake it

Want to get the tattooed look without going under the needle?
Now you can with a wide range of fake tattoo options…

Want sleeves but don’t want the hours of pain? Easy, just wear fake tattoo sleeves, made from skin-coloured light sheer material covered in stereoypical tattoo designs. These are a cheap alternative too, selling at practically the price of five minutes of tattooing. Highstreet store River Island stocks them for ‘the man about town’.

 

Transfer Tattoos are no longer a confined to the bottom of sweet boxes and freebies you found in cereal but are a fashion trend. American website Tattly sells designs ranging from pretty flowers to inspirational quotes.

 

For ladies who don’t want to commit to leg tattoos there are a wide range of tattoo tights to be found. Perfect for those too indecisive to get tattoos, when you are bored with your look you can simply peel off your tights and be bared legged once again.

Tights pictured from Asos

 

Henna is for those looking for a more long lasting tattoo design but without the permenance of real ink. Henna is a natural dye prepared from a plant, the longer you leave it on, the darker the stain. Allowing the user to decide how noticeable they want the tattoo to be.

Image from @Anoushka_irukandji

You can even accessorize your cuts and grazes with tattoo inspired plasters.

Image from Culture-Vulture

For those with more serious injuries you can even purchase fake tattoos for your cast. Website Casttoo offers a wide range of designs for all the family!

 

 

 

 

Chapman Brothers’ Tattoo Parlour

“There will be pain. Pain and blood.”

Jake and Dinos Chapman hope to raise £25,000 through Art Fund and their crowd-funding website Art Happens to open a tattoo art project at the Jerwood Gallery.

Those who donate can help bring the brothers back to their home town of Hastings, where their new art exhibition will be on display. Not only will the brother’s be painting over old junk shop finds, but they are encouraging the public to bring in art from their homes for the brothers to update with paint.

Jake and Dinos are also opening a pop-up tattoo parlour in the gallery, in which they will reward those who donated with specially-designed tattoos turning them into walking one-off pieces of art.

The original idea was to have Dinos tattooing in a wooden box, the victim – or lucky customer – would stick their arm through a hole in the box where it would be strapped down, totally hidden from site. Dinos would tattoo a design of his choosing onto their arm and on removal from the hole the recipient would see their new tattoo. Fortunately this idea was dismissed on health and safety grounds by Frieze Art Fair.

Chapman brothers tattoo design

 

Neither one of the brothers has any formal training and Jake’s forearm is covered with blue scribbles done by Dinos.

He isn’t very good, and he really dug in with the needle – it was very painful.

Will you be donating? Would you let someone tattoo a mystery design on your skin?

 

 

 

Chapman Brothers quoted from The Guardian
Images from The Guardian and www.blouinartinfo.com

Zombie Boy

You’ve all seen Rick Genest (Rico Zombie/Zombie Boy) with his face infamously tattooed to look like a skull, but have you seen him without his tattoos?
Cosmetics company Dermablend Professional created the video below in which they cover every inch of Rico’s tattoos, in order to ask the question;  ‘how do you judge a book?’

 

BBC Radio 4 have been airing a series called Tattoo Tales in which they question why people get tattoos, in this  mini interview,  ‘Zombie Boy’ explains why he got his first tattoo. Like many of us he went along with someone else, and decided to have one at the same time.

I got it at the age of 16, my little sister – she got a tattoo first, and I went out and got one right after her.

Image and quote from www.bbc.co.uk

 

A World of Beauty – before and after

Different Nationalities Photoshop The Same Woman To Make Her “Beautiful”

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and this photography project clearly proves that.

In a new photographic series, Journalist Esther Honig took a photograph of herself and sent it to 40 different people in 25 different countries. She asked them to make her unedited and make-up free face “beautiful” using Photoshop.

My objective since the beginning has been to examine how the standards of unobtainable beauty vary across cultures on a global level.

Take a look at the – sometimes terrifying – results… do you think she looks more beautiful in the “after” shots? It’s certainly an interesting project and the editors are clearly influenced by personal and not just cultural factors, as some editors from the same countries have produced drastically differing results.

Bangladesh

 

Bangladesh

Kenya

Israel

USA

Indonesia

UK

 

What do you think? How does this make you reflect on your own standards of beauty?

Esther is quoted from uk.eonline.com and the images are from www.huhmagazine.co.uk