Conclusion

Tattoos are good but can also be dangerous if you don’t know how to handle them properly. Make sure that you know who you are dealing with and that they are licensed if you go to a shop. Tattoos is something serious and when you get them make sure they are special to you and mean something, don’t go get over 50 tattoos just because other people are doing it and/or you just want to be cool, be yourself. Tattoos can explain a lot about a person you don’t know, for many people tattoos are speaking for them, they don’t have to say a word they just let you read their body. Let your ink speak for you!

B O D Y

There are four major different types of tattooing.  The first would be, abstraction tattoos, and with this type of tattooing they are done in shades of black and classic gray. The second would be naturalistic tattoos, and this type of tattoo name speaks for itself, this is done in a natural way, and every tattoo is designed to make as real as possible. The third would be the dedication tattoos, this type of tattoo is known as “pledges”, and for example they are prayer hands with someone name, hearts with people’s names inside and many more different types of things. The fourth would be simplification tattoos, this is a tattoo that doesn’t have any limited boundaries and the tattoo can be any shape and size. If you want to check this information out for yourself then you should go visit, “iloveindia.com. “Types of Tattoos”.

There are some steps you will have to take when you get your first tattoo at a tattoo shop. One of the first decisions would be where you want it done at? Who do you want to do it? When can you get your tattoo? What type of design? And how much will they be charging you? You want to make sure that the tattoo artist knows what he/she is doing and are their drawings skill up to your standards. If you are under 18 you have to show valid identification for proof of age. “http://.tattoo.about.com. “Getting a Tattoo. Step by Step Process”.

Once you and your artist are ready they will walk you over to the station and clean the area where you want your tattoo with rubbing alcohol. Any hair around the area will be shaved with a razor, and once again the area will the cleaned with rubbing alcohol. The artist with use a thermal fax to make the stencil which will be placed on the area where you want to get your tattoo. The artist will use a stick of deodorant which makes transfer darken on your skin once the stencil is pulled away it will look purple-ish blue. The artist will show you the needles they will be using on you and start connecting the tattoo machine. While doing your tattoo the artist will use A&D ointment or Vaseline once will only be applied on clean areas, and the ink that will be used on your skin will be placed in tiny cups called, “ink caps”. They say pain is pleasure, so I hope you’re ready for your tattoo. “http://tattoo.about.com. “Getting a Tattoo. Step by Step Process”.

Once the artist is complete with the tattoo, he/she will wipe you down, tape area of tattoo up to make sure it is secure and then talk to you about the after care directions. These directions are very helpful, and you will need to follow them in order for your tattoo to heal correctly. “http://tattoo.about.com. “Getting a Tattoo. Step by Step Process”.

Many people get tattoos for all the wrong reasons. Some people get them just because everyone else is and because they think they will be cool and people will like them. One of the main real reasons people get tattoos are because they have meaning and something special behind them. Tattoos are supposed to mean something to you just like everything you want or have has meaning to it. My favorite person that has tattoos is a rapper named, “Lil Wayne”, I believe he has over 200 different tattoos and behind every still one is something important and means something different. If you would like to see his tattoos and what they mean you can check out, “Lil Wayne’s tattoos and descriptions”.

Types of Tattoos

My research paper is about, TATTOOS. In honor of that I'm going to blog about different types of tattoos. As I did my own little research about this amazing topic I came upon 5 different common tattoos that people get now.




Abstraction Tattoo

• This specific type of tattoo is usually down in shades of black and classic gray.

With this type of tattoo it is very common today. Some people enjoy just a simple tattoo which is done this way and it still good great.

Naturalistic Tattoo 

• This type of tattoo is done to make it real as simple.

This type of tattoo speaks for itself, it's done in a NATURAL way.

Dedication Tattoo 

• This type of tattoo is knowing as "pledges". For an good example, "prayer hands with someone hand around it.

Simplification Tattoo

• This type of tattoo doesn't have any limited boundaries 

This can be done in any shape and can be any type.

Complex Tattoos

• This is a tattoo that most people get with Japanese body suits and combination of unrelated images. 

Tattoos

Pain, pleasure, excitement, creative, unique, these are some of best words to describe tattoos.  Tattoos are apart of today’s every day life, when you look around you will see different types of tattoos on different types of people. Tattoos have always been popular and something that some people get but not everyone, and pain has something to do with that. You like pain then you most deafly will be okay with getting tattoos.

New Blog Topic?

For a new topic I think I would like to do something about tattoos. Talk about the different types of tattoos, or how people do tattoos, the steps and/or procedures to getting a tattoo. I personally love tattoos, so far I have 8 of them and I do plan on getting more, soon. Tattoos are something VERY popular now and it would be fun to inform people that don't have them, and to the people that have some information that they probably didn't know about.


Another idea would be the L.A. Lakers. I love the Lakers, I think I love the Lakers so much because of Kobe Bryant mostly. Kobe is hands down the best player in the league. So maybe I could do half a paper on Kobe Bryant and the other half on the L.A. Lakers and then combine them both. Since Kobe holds majority of the records for the Lakers that would be GREAT. 

The BEST RAPPER ALIVE

Dwayne Michael Carter a.k.a Lil Wayne


With this blog I decided to switch it all up and just talk about Lil Wayne and some things about him and why I love him and etc. I don't need to go into details about Wayne and his life because most of the poeple that will read this already watched, "Behind The Music: Lil Wayne" and with that yall almost know everything.


Anyone that knows Wayne and listens to him, knows that he's an GREAT rapper. Over the past year people have been saying that he fell off and I believe that has something to do with the fact that he can't drink what he normally would before he got locked up in 2010. That fact that he can smoke is okay but with the mixture of the two things he was used to doing he hasn't been the same, as MOST people would say. I personally think that Wayne has gotten even DEEPER with his lyrics, he still talks reckless at moments but when he wants to get deep, he WILL.


No Ceilings


In 2009, Wayne released in my opinion one of the BEST mixtapes I have EVER heard from him, which is called, "No Ceilings". Wayne went in on every single beat from that mixtape, I will argue with ANYONE that he was not playing and this mixtape should've been an album, if the beats were his, lol.


My favorite song from the mixtape.
Lil Wayne- Ice Cream Paint Job: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FK-y33xBmo

Young Money


Aside from the great success Wayne has own his own he has put together an superstar team with his own rap label.

Drake- Take Care: November 15
Bow Wow-Underrated: December 2?
Tyga- Careless World:Rise of the Last King: December 20

Pretty Ricky

" BABY GRIND ON ME "


How could anyone FORGET those lyrics and what song that came from and who was the artist/group that was singing it.

PRETTY RICKY- Original Members
      Diamond "Baby Blue" Smith
      Spectacular Smith
      Corey " Slick Em" Mathis
      Marcus "Pleasure P" Cooper


Pretty Ricky career started in 1994 in Miami, where they signed with Bluestar Entertainment  International by C.E.O.  Joesph "Blue" Smith, which also the father of all 4 original members.

In 2005 Pretty Ricky released their FIRST single which was titled, "Grind On Me". When I first heard this song I personally thought that it was one person and made someone or a group was being featured. With the type of name they have it just seemed like that's how it was. In Miami the song was the #1 requested song in the history of radio station WPOW Power 96. May 24, 2005 Pretty Ricky released their debut album "Bluestars" which sold over 56,000 copies it's first week and later the album went Gold worldwide selling over 1,000,000 albums.


Pretty Ricky- Grind With Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJtw7vS1E8&ob=av2e

January 23, 2007 relased their second album which was titled , "Late Night Special" which sold over 132,000 copies in it's first week. 


Pretty Ricky- On The Hotline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suje-CpbmZw&ob=av2e
Pretty Ricky- Love Like Honey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekDA7JgtNgc&ob=av2e
Pretty Ricky- Pressure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSpXGazHSk

Later that year member and brother of the members, Marcus "Pleasure P" Cooper was kicked out because of personal reasons. Some of the reasons that Pleasure P was kicked out is because it's rumors going around that he was a child molester & was sexual harassing his niece. Although none of this is really providing to be true or false, I believe Pleasure P DIDN'T do that. I believe he didn't do it because for many reasons such as the group was already having bad blood between each other because Pleasure P stated that he wanted to go solo. Also, the group was being called out about having sex parties, pill parties, orgy parties, and etc. 


Pleasure P


Since Pleasure P had left the group back in 2007-08 he has been doing his own thing and I personally believe that he is BETTER off by himself. He has released his own album titled, "The Introduction of Marcus Cooper" and his mixtape called, "4 Ur Pleasure".


Pleasure P- Did You Wrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YZa9vkxCw4&ob=av2e
Pleasure P- Boyfriend #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x6z9azG5Pg&feature=fvsr
Pleasure P- Under http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD2X_Vfb0Es&ob=av2e

Pretty Ricky was one of those music groups that had all the young ladies and women drooling about them. From their good looks to the way the sound when their rapping or singing, the group was an HUGE hit until they dropped Pleasure P, once they dropped him they haven't been the same at all. While Pleasure P is rising the group Pretty Ricky is slowly sinking. 

The picture above is an perfect example of what made the ladies fall in love with this group. 

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Ricky
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_P