Pikes Peak Tattoo & Piercing

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Uncle Bud Yates, Local business owner of Pikes Peak Tattoo, Steel City Tattoo, and president of the National Tattoo Association, passed away August 14, 2006 after a tragic motorcycle accident in Roswell, New Mexico while doing what he loved, riding his motorcycle. He will be missed immensly.
For those wanting to honor Bud's Memory donations can be made to the Uncle Bud Memorial Scholarship Fund and sent to the National Tattoo Association, 485 Business Park Lane, Allentown, PA 18109 or online at nationaltattooassociation.com

The word tattoo is said to have two major derivations- from the polynesian word ta which means striking something and the tahitian word tatau which means to mark something.
The history of tattoo began over 5000 years ago and is as diverse as the people who wear them.
Tattoos are created by inserting colored materials beneath the skins surface. the first tattoos probably were created by accident. someone had a small wound, and rubbed it with a hand that was dirty with soot and ashes from the fire. once the wound had healed, they saw that a mark stayed permanently.

Tattoo Removals & Cover-ups

For thousands of years the permanence of a tattoo was one of the main attributes of the art. However, as long as theres been tattooing theres also been tattoo regret. Whether it was bad decision making on the part of the patron or poor quality work from the artist or both, the want to remove or cover a tattoo has most likely been around since the day after tattooing was invented.

Pikes Peak Tattoo Welcomes Chaz Young

Chaz brings his extensive experience to the Pikes Peak Family, moving here from Montana. He has been a member of the National Tattoo Association for many years and enjoys doing all types of tattooing. He welcome any challenge you have for him. ...

How to Pick Your Piercer...

Ok folks so here we are again, in our last article we talked about why price shopping for piercing isnt such a great idea. We will now discuss another important topic, how to pick your piercer.
Wait a moment, but I thought all piercers were the same? You may say to yourself. The short answer is no, we are not. Each individual piercer is just as unique as the skills or the piercing that you may want so how do we go about finding one that fits your needs?

Time to rethink your ink? Cover Ups...

Usually when we think of cover-up tattoos we think of an old lover whose name was tattooed in a moment of madness on some highly visible part of the body only to be regretted after the relationship suddenly ends. This is somewhat of a cliche and most often not the case. A lot of people are visiting tattoo studios for cover-up tattoos, simply because they want to touch up an old faded tattoo or rework an old design...

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