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Michael C. of Tat
too Consortium tat
toos a customer’s
back — the
process will take a
number of sessions
to complete; Navel
rings are a popular
choice for females;
tongue studs are a
recent fad for col
lege students.
A t first sight, tattoos and
body piercing generate one
of two responses — instant
attraction or rapid repulsion.
Richard Friedman, a tattoo
artist at Poking You Tattoo in Col
lege Station, said there are still
common misconceptions.
“Overall, people look at tattoos
as a dark art,” he said. “They see
people with tattoos as a rowdy,
rebellious crowd. That’s not how
it is.”
Although the allure of a pierc
ing or a tattoo may be great, there
is always the pain factor to con
sider.
Michael C, owner and artist at
Tattoo Consortium, said he is fre
quently asked if tattooing and
piercing hurt.
“Everything we do hurts a lit
tle bit,” he said. “It hurts the least
on someone else. Bony parts hurt
the most.”
Michael C. said the most com
mon piercings are the belly but
ton, tongue and eyebrow.
“I do a little bit of everything,”
he said. “I’ve been tattooing for
18 years and piercing for about
eight.”
“J,” a piercer at Tattoo Con
sortium, said he has performed
several piercings in his five years
of experience and said it is a rel
atively quick procedure.
“I’ve pierced everything,” he
said. “There’s nothing I haven’t
[pierced] and nothing I won’t.
The entire thing takes five to eight
minutes, including the consulta
tion, actual piercing and after
care instructions.”
“J” said the most unusual
piercing he has seen was a chest
piercing.
“We pierced the center of this
dude’s chest, right under his col
lar bone,” he said. “It was a ring
that hung through his skin.”
Jolene Heck, a Bryan-College
Station resident who recently got a
tattoo, is not exactly the type of per
son you would expect to see in a tat
too shop located in a college town.
“I’m 42, about to be a grand
mother,” she said.
Heck said her tattooing experi
ence was much better than she
anticipated.
“I was petrified, but it wasn’t
bad at all,” she said. “Right after
I had it done, I was thinking
about getting another one. I
wanted [the tattoo] for 10 years
and finally talked myself into it.”
Ian Perez, a freshman civil en
gineering major, said his tattoo of
a phoenix was a graduation gift
from his parents.
“It represents a new begin
ning, of a new life,” he said, re
ferring to the mythical Phoenix, a
bird who lived for 500 years and
then built a nest of aromatic
wood and consumed itself in it.
Michael C. said tattooing has
not always been so highly regu
lated.
“Up until 1994 there were no
regulations on tattooing,” he said.
“Now there’s about 17 pages of
health codes by the Texas Health
Code Department. They all deal
with some form of sanitation.
sterilization and prevention of
cross-contamination. ”
Michael C. said the art of tat
tooing is continually improving.
“In the last 10 years, the pig
ment industry has been revolu
tionized with polymers and non-
organic pigments,” he said. “Most
pigments before were salts and
oxides.”
Dee said Tattoo Consortium
maintains the highest standards
of safety and cleanliness.
“All counters are aseptic and
all sterilization is done by auto
clave,” she said. “All needles are
single-use.”
Jennifer Schill, a senior com
munity health major, said she re
cently had her tongue pierced and
currently has a 12 gauge, 5/8 inch
barbell in her tongue.
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