It's the end of the first marking period in my daughter Nina's first year of Kindergarten. She got an award of recognition for her excellent character, the highest award in her class.I had a parent/teacher conference on Wednesday and her teacher said she was at the top of her class and commended Sara and I for doing such an excellent job at home.

This means so much more to me than any other award or publication I have ever gotten. Parenthood gets more rewarding when the rest of the world recognizes your child and how incredible they are. It's one thing how we view our own children, it's totally another when you get the proverbial "Pat On The Back" from teachers and other parents!

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~j

There is generally a very low, if any, level of Iron in any tattoo pigment. Some people have reported a slight burning sensation, and others have noted tightness where the tattoo is. I have not found any substantiated reports of bad imaging, severe pain, or permanent damage. If I do, I will update. Surprisingly, the one customer I have had reports of tightness during an MRI scan was affected by his black tribal armband, rather than his brown eagle.

I have mentioned that Iron Oxide is present in most commercial permanent cosmetic pigments. Permanent cosmetics are usually not dense enough to cause these effects.

Is there such a thing as a white transfer, or could the artist draw the design in white ink, like a white gel pen?

Zokbar

A: I would love to see Shannon's white, that is the first I've heard of such an anomaly. As for your other questions, there is nothing in the application of a stencil that would cause discoloration, at least by most standard types of application. The Gentian Violet in the stencil and the blue in the speedstick are non permanent, non lightfast colors.

The discoloration in white tattoos is either caused by the skin's own natural color, or from scarring due to the fact that many artists accidentally overwork lighter colors, leaving a scar. These colors are on the top of your skin, where the pigment rests between the layers below. You always have to look through your own pigment to see the tattoo.

My best advice is to choose an area of your body with very smooth light and tender skin, such as the inside of your arm. Also choose a design that does not require shading. An outline provides a denser and more consistent field of color. Shading with white or using a solid white will cause your tattoo to look blotchy, with bright spots and spots of bare skin.

This does not apply to white highlights in a tattoo. When done properly, the white looks brighter because of the contrast with the colors surrounding it.

Also, there are two whites on the market for tattooing, always choose the brighter titanium whites, the other one (zinc, I believe) has a higher tendency to turn brown. Laser removal also causes certain whites and any colors mixed with it to turn brown.

Sleopard81

A: The antibiotics would more likely be beneficial to your healing tattoo, providing further protection against infection. Although something can be said about trying to heal two processes at the same time. I still say there's no risk.

Albert

Q: My husband wants to get a tattoo but he takes 3-4 mg. Of Coumadin a day. Coumadin is a blood thinner that keeps the blood from clotting properly. The tattoo artist who does my work is worried that that the tattoo won't heal properly, of course. My husband cannot go without his meds for even a day or too. Hope you can help.

Steve…..:~)

A: Well, Steve, Coumadin will not likely interfere with a tattoo, but there are limitations. Having a large boomer clientele, I have tattooed lots of people on blood thinners and they have no problems in healing. They cannot, however, take long sessions, I usually have to call it quits by the first 60-90 minutes. People who drink large amounts of alcohol or take blood thinners bleed a little more than most people. Generally the longer someone is being tattooed, the more the skin is irritated and they bleed more after a long session, pushing the pigment back out in spots. This does not apply to small tattoos (under 1 hour) or to black and gray tattoos.

Albert

Another note I would like to make is that many people on blood thinners may have heart problems. Magnetic fields have been shown to affect pacemakers and even kill people wearing them. A tattoo machine is an electromagnet and I do not recommend anyone with a pacemaker be tattooed.