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Proud dad’s heartwarming tattoo of son’s scar after life-saving open heart surgery

A devoted dad wanted to show his six-year-old son his life-saving heart surgery was something to be proud of. So he had a matching tattoo of his little boy’s surgery scar inked onto his own chest. Joey Watts has a condition called supravalvular aortic stenosis – a heart defect causing the narrowing of the large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body.… Read the rest

Letter of Recommendation: Stick-and-Poke Tattoos

If I were to indulge the curious, though, I’d probably say something about how stick-and-pokes are meaningful precisely because they look so bad. What’s important is the process, not the result — deciding at 3 a.m. that you suddenly, desperately need, say, a paisley sock tattooed on your foot, and enlisting a friend to immediately indulge that desire.

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Friday the 13th, a ‘Tattoo Holiday’

Friday the 13th is the patron day of black cat crossings, devious witches, shattered mirrors, suspicious ladders — and cheap tattoos.

Tattoo veterans and virgins lined up outside tattoo parlors to partake in the tradition of Friday the 13th tattoos, when shops release a “flash sheet” of pre-designed tattoos, many of which incorporate the number 13 and most of which cost just $13 (plus a lucky $7 tip).

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Raheem Sterling’s Gun Tattoo Fuels U.K. Tabloid Outrage

LONDON — He has said he has the kind of face that people just don’t like — “the ‘I don’t like face’” — and, in the past few days, quite a few people have tried to prove him right in what seems a peculiarly British cocktail of race, envy and, of course, tabloid newspapers.

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