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May 22, 2018

How Tattoos Might Affect Your Workout

“The body recognizes these injections as abnormal. They have slightly damaged the tissue and left behind a foreign substance, the ink. So the immune system gears up, sending a variety of cells to the site of the inking. Some cells carry off tiny amounts of the ink, primarily to the lymph nodes, where it dissipates. Other immune cells merge with the remaining ink, so that both become long-term residents of that portion of the skin. Still other cells initiate an inflammatory response, helping the injured tissue to mend, which it usually does within a few weeks.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/well/move/how-tattoos-might-affect-your-workout.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FTattoos&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=collection

May 9, 2018

Come see Josh at the Houston Tattoo Arts Convention!

Mark your calendars and get your ideas ready. Email tattoosonlamar@gmail.com for an appointment or try your luck with the walk up game.

May 1, 2018

The Cells That Eat, Regurgitate and Eat Your Tattoos Again

While you may have spent countless hours contemplating what design to have pierced onto your body, have you ever wondered what happens to the tattoo ink after it has been injected into your skin?

“We think of tattoos as fixed adornments. Plunge ink deep enough into the skin and there it will sit, suspended in subterranean connective tissue forever. But what if I told you that tattoos are actually maintained by an ever-changing process — one in which ink crystals are continuously engulfed, regurgitated and gobbled back up, merely giving the illusion of stasis?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/science/tattoos-cells-laser-removal.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FTattoos&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

April 21, 2018

8 Things You Didn’t Realize Can Happen To Your Body When You Get A Tattoo

“Once you decide to get inked, you’ll likely be more focused on what you want your tattoo to look like, and where you want it to be placed, than what happens when you get a tattoo. It’s such a positive, fun, and fulfilling process, that thoughts of infections, allergic reactions — and even the psychological impact a tattoo can have — are easy to push to the back of the brain.

But it is worth it to pause, take a second, and consider all of the above, before getting a tattoo.”

8 Things You Didn’t Realize Can Happen To Your Body When You Get A Tattoo

April 7, 2018

Tattooing techniques from around the world

As the manner of human artistic bodily expressions vary, so do the methods in which tattoos have been and are still applied.

“The following methods are some of the most popular historical tattooing techniques – and all of them are still practiced by various cultures throughout the world to this very day.”

Bamboo Tattoos and Other Unique Techniques From Around The World

March 24, 2018

T-Shirts are back in stock!

You guys have been asking and well, guess what! They’re here! Charcoal grey shop t-shirts in sizes Small through 4X-Large. Come on down to the shop and let us put some nice art and a soft new t-shirt on you!