Washington Tattoo And Body Piercing
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Pullman, Washington
06/21/07
Peltier found his passion early and life and is creating permanent memories on the skin of students at WSU.
For lips, heads, tongues, and webbed toes – there’s virtually nothing in anyone’s imagination a tattoo artist can’t bring to reality.
Chris Peltier, the owner of Pleasure Point, a Pullman tattoo shop, has seen and tattooed it all in his three years of being a tattoo artist.
Peltier started his career three years ago in Pullman tattooing at and running Mystical Tattoo, until he broke off to create his own shop.
Peltier can make personalized sketches for tattoos, but prefers pictures for examples. He does everything from stenciling to free hand, and specializes in gray and black tattoos.
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Courtesy of: dailyevergreen.com
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Seattle, Washington
02/20/07
Madame Lazonga, a renowned Seattle tattoo artist, discusses the spiritual side of body art.
Vyvyn Lazonga, 60, started tattooing more than 30 years ago and was one of the first female artists in what was then the manly man's world of tattooing. Madame Lazonga, as she is known, worked in San Francisco for many years until the '89 earthquake destroyed her Haight Street shop. She has long advocated the importance of tattooing in peoples' quest to connect with the divine.
People get tattoos to commemorate a loved one's death, the birth of a child, a career change, a divorce or a marriage. Any kind of big transformation, any rite of passage, can be, and often is, marked with a tattoo.
Some people think of tattoos as a way to mark a time in their lives. For me, it is beyond time. I believe the images we wear on our bodies can represent profound and universal concepts. Whatever images we choose, our body art is a true expression of our mythological belief systems. And mythology, in my opinion, has always been the glue that has held societies together. Tattooing is more than just skin deep. I'm honored when people let me put artwork onto their bodies.
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Courtesy of: sfgate.com
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Washington
06/11/06
Survey: 24 percent between 18-50 tattooed
The study, scheduled to appear Monday on the Web site of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, provides perhaps the most in-depth look at tattoos since their popularity exploded in the early 1990s.
"Really, nowadays, the people who don't have them are becoming the unique ones," said Chris Keaton, a tattoo artist and president of the Baltimore Tattoo Museum.
But body art is more than just tattoos.
About one in seven people surveyed reported having a piercing anywhere other than in the soft lobe of the ear, according to the study. That total rises to nearly one in three for the 18-to-29 set. Just about half - 48 percent - in that age category had either a tattoo or piercing.
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Courtesy of: heraldtribune.com
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Seattle, Washington
05/31/06
Body piercing is outside law, 2 parents find.
Parents might logically expect body-piercing shops to be properly licensed to ensure they are clean, professional or, at the least, not going to poke a kid without his parent's consent. But they would be wrong.
The only rules piercing shops must follow are business-related -- holding a business license, paying taxes and such. Even folks within the piercing industry have pushed for regulation.
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Courtesy of: seattlepi.com
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Longview, Washington
04/11/06
Who Tattoos? Anyone who wants to, say critics seeking better regulations.
While many health officials and tattoo artists say the industry needs more oversight, they're not sure how to do that. Should the government require licenses? Perform inspections? Up the penalties for violating current law? Wait for their industry to solve its own problems?
Tattoo artists frequently argue that even under current law, the best parlors are as safe and clean as a doctor's office. The problem, they say, lies with the bad ones.
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Courtesy of: tdn.com
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Longview, Washington
04/14/06
Fears of risky conditions prompt calls for better policing of local tattoo parlors.
Tattoo artists are clamoring for tighter oversight of their own industry, saying the government should recognize some difference between "good" tattoo operations and "bad" ones.
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Courtesy of: tdn.com
Current And Pending Washington Laws...
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Olympia, Washington
03/05/09
House, Senate, pass separate body art measures.
Under a measure that passed the Senate on Thursday, body art, body piercing and tattooing businesses would need a license. There would also be standards for equipment sterilization. That measure passed on a 47-1 vote and now heads to the House.
Also on Thursday, the House passed a bill that would require the state Health Department to adopt rules about the sterilization of needles and other instruments and jewelry used in body piercing or body art. Any business that violated the rules would be guilty of a misdemeanor. That measure passed on a 96-1 vote and now heads to the Senate.
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Courtesy of: seattlepi.nwsource.com
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Bremerton, Washington
02/18/07
Lawmakers Press Their Points on Piercings.
A proposal sponsored by state Rep. Sherry Appleton, D-Poulsbo, would order the state Department of Health to establish sanitation standards for body piercers. But another measure in the state Senate and supported by Kitty Candelaria of Silverdale, executive director of the National Hepatitis C Institute, would require body piercers and tattoo artists to register with the state Department of Licensing. Both bills call would make misdemeanor penalities out of the failure to follow state health regulations.
"I want this to happen quickly and not be drawn out," she said, noting that the health department would enforce the law with the same authority it uses to regulate restaurants and other businesses. "Right now we don’t have anything."
Candelaria said the Senate measure would be paid for by licensing fees, but Appleton doubted the fees would cover the entire costs. The measure would also require tattoo artists and piercers to report infections to the state Department of Health.
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Courtesy of: kitsapsun.com
Tattoo And Body Piercing Conventions...
Seattle, Washington
04/15/07
Masters gather to show a body of tattoo art.
The Double Tree Hotel in Seattle, where the smell of paint and the buzz of electric needles drew thousands of body art lovers to the 28th annual Tattoo Convention.
About a hundred tattoo masters drew on the bodies of those who were ready for both the pleasure and the pain.
"It's painful," said Melissa Bell. "But then your skin adapts to it and you feel OK." Bell and her husband, tattoo artist Aaron Bell, are owners of two studios in Seattle.
"People are getting tattoos for lot more reasons than just the beauty of this," said Telisa Swan, tattoo artist at Ms. Deborah's Fountain of Youth Tattoo in St. Augustine, Fla. On her arm, the eye in a triangle surrounded by earth, water and fire tells the history of her life.
Since 1979, the National Tattoo Association has held such conventions in different cities showing theirs for a contemporary art rather than drawings on the bodies of odd people.
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Courtesy of: nwsource.com
Tattoo Artist And Body Piercing Employment Opportunities...
Central Washington
03/03/09
Trade, Tattoo Artist with full clientele, for Co-op Salon. Rent $200+utilities.
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