Summertime!

"These days, the tatted set is bringing a little more forethought and
artistic value to the otherwise youthful and impetuous world of
inking." From:

New tattoos: What you'll see when beach cover-ups come off

By Nick Divito
The Associated Press

It's summer, and that means it's tattoo season, the best time of the
year to show off - or take in - all that sexy ink.

But forget the same old now-standard Asian characters or tribal bands.
These days, the tatted set is bringing a little more forethought and
artistic value to the otherwise youthful and impetuous world of
inking.

"In the past three years, everyone's been going crazy for custom
work," said Freddie Wadsworth, a 24-year-old tattoo artist at Ric's
Tattoo Studio in Lock Haven, Pa.

"The days of walking into a street shop and picking the hearts or the
star designs off the wall are numbered. It's all about the intricate,
custom work that clients help design."

Other growing favorites: Asian-inspired art, new-school renderings of
old-school favorites like anchors, ships and swallows, white-ink
tattoos like Lindsay Lohan's "breathe" script on her wrist, and
"texttoos," tattoos of phrases etched across body parts in simple
fonts.

Custom tattoos, often portraits or renderings of a personal object or
symbol, almost always have deep meaning to their owners.

For those who are private about tattoos, but still want to be able to
easily show them off to the right crowd, there is now the option of
glow-in-the-dark designs done with ultraviolet tattoo ink.

The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology says one in four
Americans has been tattooed at least once, and 17 percent of those say
they want them removed.

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Curt