If you’ve always wanted to know what your lady flower would look like with an actual flower tattooed around it, but you didn’t want to make such a permanent and drastic move, you’re in luck. A new type of temporary tattoo specially designed for vaginal use has been created. The tattoo is applied using airbrushed ink, which makes for a easy and painless experience. Currently, the only place (that we know of anyway) where you can get a temporary vagina tattoo is Completely Bare Spa in New York, but we’re hoping they’ll start showing up in other places soon.

If you’ve spent any time reading this blog, you probably know that we’re big fans of tattoos based on bizarre subject matter. That’s why we were excited when All Things Cupcake started posting pictures of cupcake tattoos submitted by their users.

The two tats above were submitted to All Things Cupcake by two different people. The one on the left belongs to Dana, who is very much in love with the word “cupcake”. She uses it as a nickname for just about everyone in her life, including family, friends, and her dog. The one on the right belongs to Andrea. When asked about the unconventional razor as a cupcake topping, Andrea said “life isn’t all sweet, sometimes it can be really painful”.  Well, eating a cupcake topped with a razor blade would definitely be painful, so she definitely made her point.

If you have a cupcake related tattoo, send it over to All Things Cupcake, and hey, while you’re at it, submit it to our site too!

There are a lot of bad reasons to get a tattoo. Getting a tat because you love your significant other, enjoy a TV show, or because you’re really into a certain celebrity is a bad idea. Getting a tattoo to help charity, on the other hand, is a great idea. Canadian tattoo shop Dead City Studios is offering $60 pink ribbon tattoos from July 19th – 24th. One hundred percent of the profits are going straight to their local branch of the Canadian Cancer Society.

We’re big fans of tattoos that support charities, and if we lived even remotely near Dead City Studios, we’d be getting pink ribbon tats for sure. Their goal is to tattoo 100 people, for a total of $6,000. That’s a pretty hefty donation! We strongly encourage any readers in the area to go and get your pink ribbon ASAP!

A while back, we made a list of tattoos based on internet fads. The Huffington Post recently made a list of their own, and they did a pretty good job of it. They found a few excellent internet meme tattoos we missed. Take, for example, the stunning Chuck Norris tattoo pictured above. Chuck Norris is so bad ass that if anyone ever questions that tattoo, the tattoo itself will kick their ass. They found a few others that we missed, but you’ll just have to click the link, and see them for yourself. The Chuck Norris tat refused to share this post with any other tats, and we didn’t want to make it mad.

Both our list and theirs raise a valid point. Before you get that fail whale tattoo, remember,  Twitter will be gone long before that tattoo, and one day, you’ll be stuck explaining what a “fail whale” is to your grand kids.

We’re a little late to report this, but Needles and Sins reported back on June 2nd that Herbert Hoffman passed away at 91. Hoffman was famous for his anchor tattoos, and people traveled great distances just to get a signed Hoffman anchor. Hoffman also received a great deal of acclaim for his photography, and he had several photography books published, featuring both his subjects, and his subject matter. Hoffman was often referred to as a “friendship collector” and he was always willing to talk with, and befriend anyone who shared his passion for tattoos. Hoffman was legendary in the tattoo industry, and his death marks the end of an era. Herbert Hoffman, you will be missed.

Time for a pop quiz! When did the first truly awesome back tat show up? A hundred years ago? A thousand? Both wrong. Actually, it was kind of a trick question – we’re not exactly sure when the first sweet back tattoo appeared, but the two pictured above are from somewhere between the 3rd and 5th century BC. During a thorough examination, three mummies housed in the State Hermitage’s Department of Archeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia  were found to have some ink. The mummies were originally found in the Pazyryk barrows in Altai in the 1940’s, but the tattoos weren’t discovered until 2004.

The moral of the story here is to consider your tattoo carefully before getting it. You never know, in a thousand years, someone might be examining your remains, and judge you based on that Hello Kitty tattoo.