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Tattoos are a different form of body painting with the main characteristic of being permanents. While body painting is nothing more than paint applied on your body with a brush, getting a tattoo can be a bit more painful because of the needles which are used to insert ink into your skin layers. Tattoos go a long way back as they were means to express the belonging to different cultures. Tattoo ink is obtained directly from the nature but as beautiful and stylish and meaningful as they can be, tattoos are also very dangerous so you just don’t go around sticking a needle with ink into your skin. If you want to get a tattoo, you have to go a specialized saloon. Tattoo artist are required to take special hygiene measures.

We have seen a huge number of cool tattoos but I always believed that the coolest are actually the ones that have significance for the person which is getting tattooed. Aside from showing you some cool tattoos, we are going to tell you a thing or two about the tattooing process.

Generally, studios are very different from one another. In some cases, the chair where you sit on and get the tattoo can all be in the same room or they can be in separated rooms. Depending on the body part where you’re getting a tattoo, you can request a private room.



The first thing that tattoo artists do is they clean and disinfect the body part where the new tattoo is going to be. Normally they use rubbing alcohol in the process. If there is any hair, it will be removed with a razor which is thrown away so there is always a new one for every client.

Studios which have modern equipment are going to use a special machine that transfers the stencil for your tattoo onto a special piece of thermal paper which is the applied on your skin and it “draws the lines” for the tattoo which you are about to get.



Right about now the artist will prepare all the necessary equipment. There are special containers for every ink color used and there is also one cup with distilled water which helps clean the needles.



Now, it’s time to begin the actual tattooing process. There were a number of cases where people fainted when getting a tattoo not because of the pain but because they were really scared. I know it sounds really difficult but it is very important that you relax your muscles. The first minute will seem like an hour but the body get’s used to the needle and the pain will not be so intense anymore.



First, the artist is going to draw the lines and then fill them with color. Artists generally loves this part because they can be more creative and suggest different colors and shades for people which do not have a clear image of what the tattoo will look like in the ending.

When the tattoo is finished, most saloons like to take pictures and add them to the portfolio.

A t-shirt is sort of a blouse that is pulled over the head to cover the upper body. A t-shirt doesn’t have buttons, pockets or collars and it has short sleeves. T-shirts are made of polyester fibres or cotton. They can have a text on them and they also can be used to advertise something.
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They come in different sizes from baby size to adult sizes. In the nineteenth century it was used as a kind of underwear. In that times only workers used to wear T-shirts. During the Spanish  American War T-shirts became popular in U.S. Navy. The T-shirt is a piece of cloth very easy to clean and it isn’t expensive. But ir became fashionable only after the actor Marlon Brandon wore it in his movie called ,, A Streetcar Named Desire’’.

The first company that started to decorate T-shirts was Tropix Togs. Plastisol is an ink that last longer and that was used in decorating T-shirts. In 1960 , Monster Company was created and they produced T-shirts with marijuana and Grateful Death motifs and emblems. The most popular were the ones with Che Guevara on them. Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary.

Cool T-shirts are decorating through screen-printing. Colours are separated into plastimol and water based inks. Colours like magenta, cyan, black and yellow are used to have a wider colour   and for the simulated process we need red, black, green, blue. It is obviously that light colour T-shirts are ideal for printing process and that dark colour T-shirts are great for simulated process.

Shimmer, puff, chino based inks are speciality inks trends. If you heat the metallic foil and put it on the plastisol you will have like a mirror reflection.



Some other methods of decorating are: appliqué, airbrush, embroidery, ironing and dye-sublimation. Laser printers are able to print using a special toner  and can be transferred to T-shirts. Thermocromatic was very popular in the nineteen eighty  but then disappeared.

Now, T-shirts online are the most popular. You can even design a T-shirt your own. Websites use digital printing such as manufacturer T-Jet .

T-shirts are more used by teenagers and young adults. Here are some T-shirt designers: FUBU, Calvin Klein, The Gap and Ralph Lauren. When the pop culture blossomed everyone had a T-shirt with its idol. I personally had one with Michael Jackson. Since the 1970 T-shirt were o form of advertising big brands like Coca cola, Mickey Mouse. Nowadays celebrities use T-shirts with ironic slogans. Some of the cool T-shirts are the ones with popular quotes, actors.



We use the a Earth’s materials in order to make everything we have. Natural resources are used in order to make useful products. T-shirt are called this way because they are made in ,,T’’ shape. We can express our personality through T-shirt.

The T-shirt label usually shows the size, the country where it was produced  and the washing instructions.  When creating a T-shirt , designers have to agree upon:

-         how stretch the material should be

-         the material will be knitted or woven

-         neckline

-         how long should the sleeves be

-         simple or decorated

You can buy vintage T-shirts which are actually new but just looking worn. They are popular among actors, performers and bikers. After events like festivals and carnivals, the demand for vintage T-shirts increases .



On the market you can find a trendy, unique and stylish collection of T-shirts that will satisfy any demand. T-shirts are made for men and women in order to reveal their style. People will turn your head after you when you are wearing a unique T-shirt .

See below some T-shirt options: animal , Christmas, Eater, countries, Halloween, music, media, religion, names,  etc. Design is the basic element of any form of art .

The t-shirt became a legend even after his humble beginning as an underwear. This piece of cloth is timeless and  is easy to adapt to any style. In the 1980’s it was even a mania with Madonna T-shirts .



Clothes are a characteristic of modern society. The main purpose is that clothes are functional it is an impediment between the environment and the skin. It protects us from cold whether. It is also hygienic to wear clothes. They also have functional and social functions. For example army and police employees have uniforms at work .

Unfortunately, clothes differentiate us from each other, in terms of being poor or rich. Clothes are made from various materials .



First of all we wear clothes to cover our naked body, to keep it warm. We wear the according to the seasons. If is it summer we use to dress in thinner materials and when its winter we dress in warmer materials .

We are also differentiated by gender. Men and women don’t dress the same although they have in common some cloth items such as trousers. It is strange how women may wear men clothes but if men try the women clothes it is considered to be unusual,  except kilts and togas. Women clothing is more attractive and more diverse .



Your financial potential will be shown by the way you are dressed. If you can,  you should buy luxury clothes and accessories and this is will indicate your rank . But don’t worry, brand stores have great discounts at the  end of the season and we can all buy expensive clothes with less money and look like a million bucks.

Every one of us is unique. Everything we do, everything we choose defines us as an individual person. For example our clothes, we dress up colorful because  we are happy, or dark because we are suffering a deception.
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Now let's talk about things that you choose to change about yourself permanently. Let's talk about tattoos.

Anyone can do it, you just need courage, you need not to be afraid of needles and pain, and to have an image that you would like to "carry" on with you for the rest of your life.

Samuel O'Reilly is the man who invented the tattoo machine in 1981, since then the technology hasn't  changed that much.

Tattoos are still made by small punctures with a needle that is dipped into ink and moves up and down the skin almost like a sewing machine.

The modern electric tattoo is an evolution of the machine invented by O'Reilly. Nowadays it's structure is different, modern tattoo machines use electromagnetic coils unlike the old one witch was based on the rotary technology of the electric engraving device.

A tattoo machine is  not a very complicated machine, it's a small electric instrument that uses a tube and a needle system. On one end is needle(which has to be sterilized), which is attached to tubes that contain ink.The machine is turned on by a foot switch that moves the needle in and out, putting the ink about 3 millimetres into your skin. The ink,once inserted into the body, past the epidermis,  into the dermis,  the ink  molecules are permanent.

Because we are talking about evolution, today a cool tattoo is not "so" permanent as it was 50 years ago. Why? Because we have options.

OPTION No. 1

Make a semi permanent tattoo

The scientists from Harvard , Brown , and Duke Univesities have discovered safe, permanent, and easily removable tattoo inks, which are made from tiny microcapsules of natural pigments. These inks are made to be removed with just one laser treatment, with a lesser risk of infections and all the health problems that are common when you're having a tattoo with permanent ink. So if you are not sure that the tattoo you've chosen will  represent you in the future, the semi permanent tattoo is a good choice.



OPTION No. 2

If you have a cool tattoo made with permanent ink that doesn't mean you're stuck with it for the rest of  your life. Modern technology gives us several alternative of removing it. One option can be laser removal. This works by breaking the ink in very small pieces with pulses of highly concentrated light, after that your immune system will clear the ink fragments away.  Another option is intense pulsed light therapy which replaces the laser light with high intensity light almost in the same way.  The disadvantage of this way of removing you tattoo is the price which can be almost $10 per pulse and I doubt too many individual health insurance plans cover that.

If those first two options did not thrilled you, and you would like to do it yourself, then you can with cream removals. Two of the most popular products in are TaBGone and Tattoo-OFF. Both oh them are cheaper and first two options , a 2 month supply of Tat B Gone is $125, and it takes a couple of months to get to the result that you wish for, according to the Tattoo Removal Institute. A 2 month supply of Tattoo-OFF is $116.95.

Even if we have alternatives today, getting inked is a big commitment. Whether you choose a tattoo that represents something special, or you get one by mistake, tattoos are meant to be permanent.

A very important article of jewelry is a bracelet which is usually worn on the wrist of the hand. There are some cultures where it is worn on the leg representing the woman and its divine power. You can manufacture a cool bracelet from cloth, leather, hemp, metal or even plastic and it can contain wood, shells or sometimes even rock.

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They are used for many other purposes as well for instance for medical reasons, helping with the identification, some patients having allergy bracelets or tags to identify the patient. The original term is armlet which is a very technical word and it means arm ring. The origin of the term bracelet comes from the Latin brachile which meant of the arm and was transformed via the old French 'bracel'.

It is very significant in the cultural field and in the history of the Egyptians they are 500 BCE. It started off with materials like stones, bones and wood that were served as spiritual and religious interests. One of the coolest bracelets of all times in the history of Egypt and a well known symbol of it is the Scarab Bracelet. The scarab represented in Egypt regeneration and rebirth. Worn as jewelry were carved scarabs and they were wrapped into the linen bandages of the mummies. In the tales and the myths of old Egypt it is said that the scarab god Khepri that pushed the sun across the sky.

Azabache bracelets were in Latin America and they were worn to protect people against the evil eye, Mal de ojo. This is believed as the result of admiration in excess or the envy cast upon others. This cool bracelet is made out of gold or made out of red and black coral in the form of the fist and newborns will have to wear it to be protected from all bad.

There are also traditions related to bracelets like in Bulgaria people would tie a red and a white string all around the wrist to make the spring come faster thus pleasing Baba Marta and this tradition was called Martenitsa. Also in some parts of India wearing a specific type of bracelet would mean that a woman is married.

There are many types of cool bracelets out there and one of them that made the trend is the sport bracelet that were popularized by Lance Amstrong and Nike in May 2004 through Yellow Livestrong wristband and the used rubber, metal and silicone to make them. This made silicone bracelets the next best thing when you just can't afford a pricey cool bracelet you would buy a fancy yet cheap one from the market with just a few bucks out of your pocket. Many campaigns used this symbol and there were invented also ribbons for supporters of any particular group.The all time favorite of the women all around the world is the diamond bracelet that it is featured with a symmetrical pattern with diamonds and it is named the tennis bracelet.



The name for the bracelet came in 1987 when Chris Evert which is the former World No 1 tennis player for women was playing and during the match she accidentally broke her diamond bracelet made by George Bedewi and the game had to be interrupted to recover the very pricy bracelet. Gabriela Sabatini and Serena Williams were among the many tennis players that from then on played with their cool bracelet.

Everybody has a charm bracelet. I mean, every girl and woman has or will eventually buy one because it represents a symbol mainly carrying all your personal symbols and charms that you choose and are important to your person. The first started in Italy and then became trendy all over the world being made out of silver mostly but any other metal that would not be so pricey and would just do the work.

From the Southwestern American Indians came the tradition of the beaded bracelet which is a very cool bracelet that is quite often colored and the main color represents the sky, mainly blue. For some groups or supporters there are also the link bracelets and for the spiritual ones out there you can get yourself a karma bracelet that is also associated with good fortune and it is made out of wooded beads.



If you want to learn how to make a cool bracelet it's very easy because it mainly depends on you originality and imagination. It is very rewarding to make them hand made and then give them as a gift to the ones you love because it is like you offer a part of you. By making bracelet you can restore art in you life and joy to others. You can buy a set of jewelry tools and you can find such sets at Sears but do keep in mind that these kinds of sets are for beginners and in time you will develop more ideas and you will want to upgrade you work.



German sets are more likely to fit your advanced needs now and it will last you many years. It is definitely worth the investment. If you can't solder all the pieces that you have together you will need to find the proper glue and as most users pointed out the best one is the 'GOOP' or the 'E-6000', being almost the same glue but from different brand names and it will stay were you put it for more then 10 years.

It will take you a while to get used to it but believe us it is worth the wait because the other glues that are on the market just fall apart too easy and they are not made for these kind of arrangements. The most intriguing fact of this art is that you can use anything you would like. Let you imagination go wild because there are no fancy rules to get by. You just have to trust you originality and believe us that you will have the coolest bracelet made up from the most vintage things that you will find. It is also a very relaxing activity so if you need a new hobby maybe this one is for you.

One of the most thriving and legendary subcultures is the Goth one, which has followers all around the world. If you are interested in this culture and want to be part of it then you should read this article, I can assure you that it will help you in the future.You would want firstly to do your research just to better understand its past and listen to gothic music. The most elderly persons in the group will surely appreciate the fact that a person took time to search the roots of the culture and its meanings. The majority of the Goths listen to a variety of musical sub genders known as Goth Music: Bat cave era, Post-Punk bands, Death rock, Second Wave Gothic Rock, Dark wave and Ethereal. There are many Goths as well that will listen to industrial music but that is a whole new separate music gender.

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A very good place to start in this research is the internet but don't forget that if you really do not like it and enjoy other types of music you should listen to them. It is not an enforcement of all the features of the culture. You may like just the music and not the clothes, or viceversa but either way around you do not have to be forced into liking something just because it would be cool. In my opinion, how to be the coolest Goth regards freedom of choice on any grounds.

In this culture, the clothes do matter because fashion style is a very big part of a Goth's life. You may want to let other Gothic followers that you like the style and embrace it but remember that if you do not want to dress up all the time it is not that bad. You should do a little research on this topic as well and you shall find a lot of sites and do keep in mind that dressing Goth is not all about dressing in black. There are many styles of fashion to the Goth subculture but the main ones are the Victorian Romantic Goth style and the Bat cave Death rock 80s style.

A more popular style that made its place into the Goth fashion culture is the Gothic Lolita. You do not want to use a face paint costume mix of you want a white complexion but a mix of a lighter foundation with the regular foundation that will match your true skin color, because it will look awful. The white skin feature is not a must because you can rock this style any color of skin that you mat have. Try to make your own look and do not copy others, make it personal and unique combining elements that you may see in different image styles. If one day your all miss sunshine and the next day you will be the great Goth queen, people may think that you are doing this only fro the trend and that you are not genuine so a good advice is to ease into such a new look.

You may find a lot of articles on the how to dress Goth or how to be the coolest Goth but remember as long as you don't feel comfortable in what you are doing or wearing means that you are doing it only for the trend and that this culture is not for you. You do not have to force yourself into linking something. If you are interested it will be easy to learn facts about the history of the Goth culture and if you do not know something you should not feel embarrassed because no one knows them all. There are many suggested authors for the literature part like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anne Rice, Christopher Marlowe, Ellen Schreiber, Storm Constantine, The Bronte Sisters and Melissa Marr.

You do not have to limit yourself to these authors because there are many wonderful books out there. These are merely the top authors for the Goth subculture and be sure that the coolest Goth has a collection of them back home. Another style, that suite this culture, is the sci-fi or the fantasy literature, and one of my personal favorites. But do keep in mind the fact that of you do read these books and do not like them it would not make you Goth. This is a feeling, a style and a nature.

The attitude is another main feature to this culture and remember that there are many judgmental people out there. Try to be polite and considerate towards other people and of you think that violence or being depressed will make you a cool Goth then think again. Try to accept the differences that may appear between you and others and be very accepting. If you do your research right you will find out that many artists, musicians, writers are Goths because individuality and creativity are a very big part of this culture.

If you do like the music then try a club but be prepared to have different experiences like in the normal clubs. These places are where Goth followers come and share their emotions and opinions about many subjects like the modern society for example. Many topics are considered taboo so do not be ashamed or think that they are inappropriate, just try to think freely and nonjudgmental and if you still do not have a great time, it's ok. It just means that this scene is not for you. You may want to try the magazines that you can buy and read in the comfort if your home. Morbid Outlook, Asleep by Dawn. Drop Dead, or Gothic Beauty are the main themed magazines that you will find on news stands or can subscribe online.

Remember that the main thing that we are trying to stress out in this article is the fact that if your interest is genuine these things will come natural. You will become the coolest Goth and be into Goth music, because there are many good bands out there, or get confident in your style and the new way you like to dress, live and think. You will meet many people which will be Goth if you are opened up and you will do what you believe in not be forced by the pressures of the group or the culture.

Although many people consider a Goth instantly a freak it has been shown that the majorities of the followers are very respectful towards others and really does not care about what other judgmental people think, because this is a narrow and limited way of thinking. This style also encourages academically performances, Goths liking very much to read and many of the important figures in the world were Goths. This culture is not about being cooler, or being a rebel that will curse excessively. It's a way of life and thinking that is very liberating and I really hope that people in the future will embrace at least the way of thinking, this changing a lot in the world.