The Joplin Board of Education has given the green light to change district policy to forbid visible tattoos.

Teachers were previously required to wear clothing that “minimizes” tattoos, but it did not prohibit part or all of the tattoo from showing. Board members appeared to be unanimous about tattoos being inappropriate in a classroom setting and authorized the policy change.

Board member Jeff Flowers said, “There’s a stigma associated with (tattoos), and it’s not a goo... Read More

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A mother fears her son could have been left scarred for life after an apparently innocuous henna tattoo started blistering and bleeding.

Nine year old Tyler Ewles had the tribal design imprinted on the lower part of his back while on a visit to a night market at Guardamar near Alicante in Spain while the Reedham family was on holiday.

For the first eight days after the temporary tattoo was created, there were no signs of any problems and Tyler enjoyed showing it off.

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The butterfly is far and away the most-used insect image in all of tattoo. A symbolic creature in many cultures, it sometimes represents beauty itself or metamorphosis and other times the transitory nature of happiness and, indeed, all of life. To the Aztecs, the butterfly symbol- ized the soul or the breath of life exhaled by the dying. The same is true in classical antiquity, where it was a common belief that the soul left the body in the shape of a butterfly. In Western cul... Read More

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