$20 Dzul Summer Piercing Sale

Studio Phone Number: 206-767-1163 Summer 2012 is finally here, Seattle! Time to kick it off with a summer piercing sale here at Dzul Ink! The sale will start Saturday July 7th and go through Friday August 31st! Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Standard piercings will be $20, which does not include the jewelry. So get the summer started right! With a fresh piercing to show off to the summer world! The piercing sale includes all standard piercings above the waist. All other piercings are 10% off. Piercings do not include jewelry. Initial certified sterile stainless steel jewelry starts at $15. We also offer a selection of high quality jewelry in a wide range of styles that are suitable for your new piercing. Buy 3 piercings for you or your friends, and receive a 4th piercing for free!! (Piercings must be purchased the same day) The following is a list of some of our most commonly asked questions. *********************Questions and Answers:************************* 1.) What are considered standard piercings? -The following is a list of standard piercings: eyebrow, lip, earlobe, labret, monroe, medusa, nostril (nose), navel (belly), tongue, vertical labret, conch, tragus, ear cartilage, industrial* **The industrial piercing counts as 2 piercings, each is $20 2.) Does the $20 sale include jewelry with the piercing? - No, jewelry is sold separately. Initial certified sterile stainless steel jewelry starts at $15. We also offer a selection of high quality jewelry in a wide range of styles that are suitable for your new piercing. 3.) Is all of the jewelry $15? - No, the prices of jewelry depend on material and style. The most basic jewelry for many of the piercings start at $15. 4.) What piercings are 10% off? - Surface and advanced piercings. The following are examples of surface and advanced piercings. If you dont see your piercing listed, call us at the shop to inquire if it is included in the sale. Genitals, nipples, surface piercings, anti-eyebrow, chin, bridge, third-eye, lowbret, septum, cheeks, etc. 5.) What type of jewelry do you use for the initial piercing? - We use sterilized stainless steel. The technical name is 3116 LVM-PER ASTM F-138-92. This is the recommended jewelry for initial piercings, and the same material used for surgical implants. 6.) Can I bring my own jewelry? - We are required to use only sterile bran new jewelry purchased here at the shop, to ensure your safety. 7.) Are appointments required? - Walk ins are welcome, but we highly recommend making an appointment or you might have a 20-30 minute wait since we experience a high volume of clients on sale days. 8.) Can I come any day to get the sale price? -No, only the days of the sale. Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Until August 31st. 9.) How do I make an appointment? If you dont find an answer to your question here, follow the link below for more information about our piercing policies or call us at the studio for additional help. http://www.dzul.com/?fqp=piercing-faq.php - Give us a call at the studio and we will get you booked with an appointment.

$20 Dzul Summer Piercing Sale

Studio Phone Number: 206-767-1163 Summer 2012 is finally here, Seattle! Time to kick it off with a summer piercing sale here at Dzul Ink! The sale will start Saturday July 7th and go through Friday August 31st! Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Standard piercings will be $20, which does not include the jewelry. So get the summer started right! With a fresh piercing to show off to the summer world! The piercing sale includes all standard piercings above the waist. All other piercings are 10% off. Piercings do not include jewelry. Initial certified sterile stainless steel jewelry starts at $15. We also offer a selection of high quality jewelry in a wide range of styles that are suitable for your new piercing. Buy 3 piercings for you or your friends, and receive a 4th piercing for free!! (Piercings must be purchased the same day) The following is a list of some of our most commonly asked questions. *********************Questions and Answers:************************* 1.) What are considered standard piercings? -The following is a list of standard piercings: eyebrow, lip, earlobe, labret, monroe, medusa, nostril (nose), navel (belly), tongue, vertical labret, conch, tragus, ear cartilage, industrial* **The industrial piercing counts as 2 piercings, each is $20 2.) Does the $20 sale include jewelry with the piercing? - No, jewelry is sold separately. Initial certified sterile stainless steel jewelry starts at $15. We also offer a selection of high quality jewelry in a wide range of styles that are suitable for your new piercing. 3.) Is all of the jewelry $15? - No, the prices of jewelry depend on material and style. The most basic jewelry for many of the piercings start at $15. 4.) What piercings are 10% off? - Surface and advanced piercings. The following are examples of surface and advanced piercings. If you dont see your piercing listed, call us at the shop to inquire if it is included in the sale. Genitals, nipples, surface piercings, anti-eyebrow, chin, bridge, third-eye, lowbret, septum, cheeks, etc. 5.) What type of jewelry do you use for the initial piercing? - We use sterilized stainless steel. The technical name is 3116 LVM-PER ASTM F-138-92. This is the recommended jewelry for initial piercings, and the same material used for surgical implants. 6.) Can I bring my own jewelry? - We are required to use only sterile bran new jewelry purchased here at the shop, to ensure your safety. 7.) Are appointments required? - Walk ins are welcome, but we highly recommend making an appointment or you might have a 20-30 minute wait since we experience a high volume of clients on sale days. 8.) Can I come any day to get the sale price? -No, only the days of the sale. Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Until August 31st. 9.) How do I make an appointment? If you dont find an answer to your question here, follow the link below for more information about our piercing policies or call us at the studio for additional help. http://www.dzul.com/?fqp=piercing-faq.php - Give us a call at the studio and we will get you booked with an appointment.

Daily Mail? Arse!

Carping about the Daily Mail is as easy and pointless as throwing confetti at a rhinoceros but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. And this time it’s (very tangentially) personal.

A few days ago, the Mail ran an article about Carole Middleton, the mother of the woman who is married to the Queen’s balder grandson. It’s a rather snotty, sneery piece, focusing on her “little social weaknesses” – which is odd because I would have thought Middleton’s story (one-time air hostess who made something of herself) matches the Mail’s default readership profile, or is at least the sort of narrative to which they aspire. But I don’t want to add to the reams that have already been written about the paper’s extraordinary ability to persuade women to read articles that tell them how vile they are.

No, the real problem comes a few paragraphs in, when the article’s author Paul Scott suddenly starts discussing one Tim Atkinson who apparently “writes a regular blog for the Party Times” (the website of the Middletons’ hugely successful business). In his blog, Tim occasionally pokes gentle fun at the royals and, on this occasion, mused about that batty Palace directive that Kate Middleton should curtsey to the offspring of Prince Andrew, her husband’s cousins, the gormless-looking ones with the bizarre headgear that looks like beige fallopian tubes. Scott quotes the post’s headline – “Sister of woman with nice arse officially inferior to Beatrice and Eugenie” – which began life as one of my tweets and which Tim A very politely asked if he could borrow, because he’s got good manners. See, I told you it was all a bit tangential. I thought the Mail asterisked words like “arse” though, preferring “derrière” or “posterior”. Apparently not.

Anyway, Tim Atkinson doesn’t write a regular blog for the Party Times. Whoever puts together the Party Times has chosen to link to Atkinson’s blog. Scott does actually mention that the offending screed “appears on the tackily titled ‘blogroll’ section”, but he doesn’t appear to understand what a blogroll is. Look, I’ve got a blogroll. It’s a roll of blogs, so that’s why it’s called a blogroll. It lists some blogs I quite like. But the people who write those blogs aren’t writing regular blogs for Cultural Snow. They’re doing it for themselves. And if Annie Bookcrossing suddenly declares that all Paraguayans should be drowned at birth, or Blackwatertown suggests that punching baby pandas in the face is fun, that’s not my problem, OK? Atkinson offers his view of the whole thing here.

OK, so Paul Scott is a silly old fart who doesn’t understand how social media works. Big deal. But the problem is, he’s writing for the Mail, which operates the most-visited news website in the world. Millions of people are (apparently) gulping down their tales of minor celebrities and their bikini malfunctions, and how Katie Holmes ate an ice cream so she’s probably OK now. Columnists such as Peter Hitchens, Melanie Phillips and Simon Heffer meanwhile bellow about the increasing banality and shallowness of modern culture, ignoring the fact that said banality is helping to pay their wages; the exquisite doublethink is neatly dissected here. But maybe they’re just like Scott, and still haven’t got to grips with how this big, strange interwebby thing really works. Maybe none of the Mail journalists really understand, and neither do the editors or the owners, and they’re all just helpless little hamsters in an Escher-like continuum of interconnected wheels that’s been thrown together for a giggle by some malevolent HAL 9000-type computer that turns out to be the cyborg love child of Mary Whitehouse and Paul Raymond. And as they die of exhaustion and embarrassment and self-loathing, the last thing they hear will be the voice of Carole Middleton explaining what a blogroll is.

Walk away René Magritte

I very rarely find myself in an “I-wish-I’d-had-a-camera” moment because I’m hopeless at taking pictures and in any case deep within my DNA I think there’s a little bit of that superstition (Amish? Inca? Nepalese? Can never remember...) that capturing someone’s image is a way of grabbing their soul. And I’m really rather shy, so I could never do that thing of stopping perfect strangers on the street and asking to photograph their groovy clothes; and I’m also very wary of confrontation, so I could never risk taking pictures surreptitiously, in case the subject objected. No, words is what I do, which is why I was massively tempted to turn the end of that last sentence into a pun about word order, by inserting the word “verb” but I didn’t, so hurrah for me.

But anyway, on Saturday night, in the gift shop of a posh hotel in Bangkok, I wished I’d had a camera. A youngish couple walked in; from what I could hear of their conversation I think they were Korean. He was wearing a blue-and-white striped polo shirt and on the right breast was Magritte’s pipe. Oh, you know the one:

That’s the chap. Except he just had the pipe – not the words. The words that seem to be a lie and then you suddenly realise they’re telling the truth, because it’s not a pipe, it’s a picture of a pipe. The words that encapsulate Magritte’s dry, self-deprecating, deliciously Belgian wit; the words that brought metafiction to visual art; the words that make you look at all art before or since through different eyes; the words without which it would still be a pipe, because nobody’s telling you otherwise. But I didn’t take a photo, for all the reasons I mentioned.

And because I don’t know the Korean for “Do you mind if I take your photo for my new website youvecompletelymissedthebloodypoint.tumblr.com?”

Nice Body Painting Part 2

Nice Body Painting Part 2

Professional Makeup At The World Bodypainting Festival

The World Bodypainting Festival (WBF) is the World's largest body painting event and Championship including different professional makeup categories such as special effects makeup, sponge and brush and airbrush, UV effects and face painting.

The 14th annual event was held at a new location in Pörtschach. The city of Pörtschach is located is located by the lake Wörthersee in Carinthia, the Southern part of Austria and can be reached within 15 minutes from the Klagenfurt airport.

Apart from attendees, sponsors and competitors many vendors from around the world gather at the Bodypainting festival to showcase their newest products including professional makeup supplies, special effects makeup, face painting supplies and airbrush tattoos.

This year, the festival attracted over 24,000 visitors. Professional makeup artists from 42 countries competed for the World Championship. Apart from body painting, the WBF brings art, music and different shows together making this a magical experience.

The event is a great opportunity to attend several different workshops including professional makeup, special effects makeup, airbrush makeup, sponge and brush face painting and airbrush tattoos.

This year the WBF kicked off with the WBF academy which is a great opportunity to see professional makeup artists from around the world in action while offering classes and demonstrations in different categories including professional makeup, face painting, airbrush body painting, special effects makeup, professional makeup, photography, airbrush tattoos and more. Virtually hundreds of participants attended the workshops and took classes from the world's best instructors.

The themes for 2011 were "Renaissance - Rebirth" on the first 2 main days and "Haute Couture" on Sunday, the final day.

Friday was the first day of the event and it started with the category of Special Effects Make up and the preliminary round to the World Award in the category brush/sponge. The internationally renowned jury consisted of Mike Shane (Luxembourg), Craig Tracy (USA), Jinny (Canada), Filippo Loco (USA), Patrick McCann, (Germany/USA), Denis Penkov (Germany) and Ernst Wieser (Austria).

The event followed by fluoro competition and awards, sponge and brush, airbrush competition and amateur contest. The main categories which included brush/sponge, professional makeup, airbrush and special effects bodypainting were awarded with the World Champion title on the final day on Sunday.

The highlight of the show, the after party, took place on the final day of the event, and it is depicted by many as the "craziest party in the world". By no doubt the WBF is one of the most sought after events in the face and body painting industry.

The 2012 is going to be the 15th anniversary of the World Bodypainting Festival and it will be held in Pörtschach. Austria. The event week is scheduled for July 2-8, 2012. It is highly recommended to register early especially for the WBF academy as there are limited seats available for each workshop in 2012.