Entries from August 2009

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Attitude is Everything

Cindy and Dave purchased the Starter System about three years ago. They have a list of regular shows they do every year but some of those shows had been canceled. They needed to find some other venues, so they applied at a regional race way. They were happy when the got the letter of approval [...]

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Wednesday Spotlight: Barbara Ericson

Barbara Ericson has been doing tats for less than a year, but she already has a good handle on the industry and its quirks. Ericson came across airbrush tattoos with her youngest son at the state fair. She did some research when she got home, and found the forum. The rest, as they say, is [...]

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Cool Online Font Viewer

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately looking for and adding fonts. It’s very easy to do, and there are so many great free fonts out there it can get kind of addicting. Free fonts are incredibly abundant, but since they require us to download a file off of the internet I’m hesitant to [...]

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Hi Again!

I have been in the process of moving since the beginning of summer. I thought I would be settled by now but I still cannot decide where to hang all the pictures. Of course my husband is no help. His answer is “Whatever you decide is fine with me.” I’ll probably struggle for a few [...]

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Wednesday Spotlight: Vickie Lipscomb

Vickie Lipscomb is a fantastic grandmother. How many other people would wait in line for half an hour so that their grandchildren could get tats? A little over a year ago, Lipscomb took her granddaughter to a fair in Helen, Georgia. They found a temporary airbrush tattoo booth, and her granddaughter had to have one. [...]

Friday, August 14th, 2009

TatStore.com Changes

We have added many new features to the tatstore.com website this summer in the hopes of making it the easiest to use and most feature rich airbrush tattoo site on the Internet. Here is what we’ve been working on: New Homepage. The front page has (finally) been reworked to out more content in a smaller [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Wednesday Spotlight: Alan Miller

Good news for the temporary airbrush tattoo industry: anyone with an airbrush is getting requests for tats. 18 years ago, Alan Miller started airbrushing t-shirts, hats, and helmets. A little more than a year and a half ago, he started receiving several requests for airbrush tattoos, so he did some research and added tats to [...]

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

It’s All True–Take Care of Your Tats

We’ve all heard how to take care of a temporary airbrush tattoo a thousand times. “Do not rub or scrub the tat. After showering, pat the tat dry and apply powder to it. If clothing rubs against the tat, it will have a tendency to wear off faster.” But do these techniques really work, or [...]

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Squidoo lens

As you all know, we here at TAT continue to seek opportunities to advance our industry as a whole. We have created the countless free industry-wide resources like the TAT Forum, and the Artist Directory. To this effort we have added a Tat industry Squidoo lens. It’s not really a huge thing, but it is [...]

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Visa Business Network

Hi guys. I know Thursday is not my usual day for posting, but we recently received an interesting e-mail here at TatStore that I wanted to pass on to you guys. Before I get into this topic I’d like to express the two distinct reasons I’m sharing this post with you. One, I think this [...]