Yeah hot women with hot tattoos are just super hot! I actually tried to go to the convention on sunday with a friend, because I want to get a chinese dragon design done, but it was closed. On the website the schedule said it was open until 5pm each day, and we went at 2pm [...]
As China has taken its cultural cues from the West in recent years, and has experienced increased exposure to rock, Hip Hop music and NBA players (nearly half of whom are tatted), the tattoo has become an accessory that defines the modern, rebellious nature of today’s Chinese youth culture. More and more Chinese youth, for [...]
A girl shows her tattoos during the Tattoo Show Convention China 2007 in Beijing June 16, 2007.
During the Cultural Revolution, Mao banned tattoo art on the grounds that it signaled impurity and ruffianism, and even today members of the Chinese army are forbidden to have tattoos. However, tattoos have figured into the cultures of several of China’s ethnic minorities, most notably the Drung and Dai minorities. During Imperial times, tattoos were [...]
Like any good convention, suppliers were on hands hawking the latest in tattoo products. A supplier booth at the Beijing tattoo shows costs 1,500 USD, a substantial fee for mainland China’s tattoo merchants. Seventy-six suppliers from China, Indonesia, France, Germany and England rented booths for the occasion.
According to the convention’s official site, the aim of [...]
Though tattoos in China still draw scorn from Chinese elders and double-takes from straight-laced youth, this weekend China’s tattoo enthusiasts gathered in Beijing for China’s Tattoo Show Convention 2007. Until recently, tattoos in China were reserved for those with ties to organized crime, a prison record or membership to one of China’s tribal minorities for [...]
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A man shows the designs on his face during the Tattoo Show Convention China 2007 in Beijing June 16, 2007.
We will hold the 2010 china tattoo convention like a party, because the convention now is not just a place for skill learning, we prefer to provide a plat for those tattoo aritists to communicating. Our [...]
Tattoo Show Convention China 2007 opens on Saturday, June 16, in Beijing. Many famous tattoo artists from China and abroad feel proud to display their fine art of skin drawings.
The Tattoo Show Convention China 2007 has opened in Beijing on Saturday, showcasing some of the country’s best artists and their subjects.
The three-day tattoo show brings [...]
Today, most people choose to get tattooed for cosmetic, religious or magical reasons, or to show they identify with a particular group. Some M膩ori still choose to wear the intricate moko tattoo on their faces. In Cambodia and Thailand, the yantra tattoo confers protection.
Lin Lin says her tattoo also has special meanings.
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“I have something good [...]
Tattoos have been around in Eurasia since at least Neolithic times. They also have a long history in China. Tattoos used to be associated with criminal behaviors, but now it’s becoming popular again after falling out of favor for decades.
Lots of young people today bear tattoos on different parts of their bodies with designs ranging [...]
