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iel Schwertner, sophomore
ite^ture major, sat in the
Tattoo Consortium and
jat the signs on Texas Av-
iis tattoo, a tribal design,
Jfway through,
coesn’t hurt now, but it did
rst” Schwertner said,
ichvertner had to first decide
te wanted, where he wanted
|ize and how much he
to spend. He also had to
to having a life-long piece
[ork on his arm, as tattoos
oh y be removed surgically.
Afforhe made his decisions, his
Ii was shaved, scrubbed with
exas a&m Universityifio', and stenciled.
H . Hies Stevenson, a tattoo
Tg Hit Tattoo Consortium, said
re different peopl# orked ° n ^^rtner’s tat-
thht pain caused by the out-
he thread of cor k" 1 w !' ot most people com
es of the Tex. 1 » b0 “ t ' "***? the color -
t ■ j- He also said tattooing on
asemating discovet
Hreas is more uncomfortable
Heshy areas.
p., i i j L .Hrst started off a little light-
f the band, hadkH and we had to stop ;- Schw .
some paiat inM sa j d
/ell said. Later,^L asn ’t the pain, but the
/er the band wh: ousness ;-
■wertner said it felt like
\\ isconsin nati was pinching him at
' traditions fromH u t during the outlining it
amazed at thesirHe someone was jabbing a
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Michael C, a tattoo artist, applies a sun tattoo
on Marc Mayo, a senior marketing major.
needle into him.
And that is ex
actly what hap
pened.
Michael C, a tat
too artist at Tattoo
Consortium, said
the needle works
like a cross between
a quill and a sewing
machine, driving
one to two millime
ters through the
epidermis into the
top of the dermis.
This process results
in a permanent
mark which
stretches with the
growth of your skin.
He said the most
popular tattoos for
college students are
cartoon characters,
Taz the Tazmanian
Devil and Marvin
the Martian, and
the most popular
place is on women’s lower ab
domens and on men’s ankles. But
he said he has seen tattoos on
faces, and described those individ
uals as freaks.
“As a professional artists I be
lieve things should be coverable,”
Michael C said.
Michael C said that tattoos
came to the United States in the
1700’s from the South Seas to Cal
ifornia and Boston, Mass., and
were then viewed as traveling side
freak shows. Over time though, he
said tattooing has become more
popular and has yet to reach its
peak.
“Five years ago, college stu
dents who got tattoos were seen as
radicals,” he said. “Now you see
people in the Corps and fraterni
ties with them.”
He said college students make
up 60 percent of his customers,
but they only make up 30 percent
of his revenues.
With the rise in popularity of
tattooing, the government is
stepping in with regulations.
Since last March, the tattooing
industry is overseen by the
state health department.
The state hgs made an age re
quirement of 18, requires steril
ization of equipment and pro
hibits tattooing individuals who
are intoxicated.
“I never thought there could
be a lawsuit over this,” Michael
C said. “Maybe a few upset peo
ple would come in and try to bust
me up.”
State law also ensures the ster
ilization of equipment. Needles
and ink tubes are heated at 215
degrees Celsius for at least 35
minutes with 15 pounds of pres
sure applied, a process referred to
as auto-enclavement.
“There is no fluid-to-fluid trans
fer from an individual to another,”
Michael C said.
As Schwertner’s tattoo was be
ing finished up, Rebecca Ramirez,
a freshman civil engineering ma
jor, waited. She chose a rose.
“I’ve always wanted one, but to
day I’m going to do it,” she said.
“I don’t think my parents would
have let me while I was at home.”
Both are expected to be a bit
sore today.
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bers,” she said
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