Too bad Tom Cruise didn’t think about this back in the 80’s when he was running around in the movie Risky Business, sporting a pair of Ray Ban’s and smoking cigarettes.  This guy, Matthew, had glasses, or should I say glasses frames, tattooed on his face.  Yea.

His facebook has quite a few comments and not good ones, apparently, as does his YouTube video.  He had someone take video of the whole ordeal from the artist tracing his Ray Ban’s outline onto his face, the entire process of putting the ink in his skin, and the aftermath which you see in the photo above.  Many people have said “what are you thinking?”  and “good luck getting a job”.  I think he looks a little like a superhero.  Maybe he can find a job at an amusement park.
What was not originally told as part of his story was that Ray Ban sunglasses put him up to it as some form of advertising.  Sure, Matthew got his 15 minutes of fame on the internet and people will probably forever recognize him as the silly guy that got a really old style of Ray Ban’s tattooed onto his face.  However, I think Ray Ban is going to be the ones who really profit from this stunt.  Or, they’ll get in big trouble.
It’s kind of similar to the woman who took 10,000 and let an artist tattoo Golden Palace.com across her forehead.  She says she did it to pay for her son’s school fees.  I’m sorry but if his school cost that much, he should be going somewhere else.  He’ll be out of that school in a few years and she will still have goldenpalace.com in huge dark letters across her forehead.  I’m not sure what kind of compensation Matthew has received, if any, but it doesn’t seem like it would be enough when you consider the possible consequences.  Unless he’s wearing sunglasses all the time, it will be difficult for him to get any kind of job that allows him to present his face to a customer.  On a positive note, there are tons of jobs available online if he’s internet savvy.  He could start up his own e-business or maybe sell some e-books about his experiences while running around town with glasses on his face.  The tattooed glasses on his face.  Maybe he could shave his head and a hat company could offer to pay him if he tattoos a beanie on his noggin?

In any case, he’s getting his few minutes of fame and now Ray Ban is getting its name in the news.  Sure, people might be bashing them for having that poor kid place a hideous life altering tattoo on his face just for the companies benefit but sometimes even bad publicity is good publicity, at least that’s probably how Ray Ban see’s it.

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Some of the most fascinating and intricate tattoos in the world belong to what the Japanese call the Yakuza, a very large Japanese crime syndicate. The process of getting the tattoos, that sometimes cover their entire body, has become somewhat of a ritual, displaying the person’s feelings towards fitting in with society and its rules. Because of the tattoos and their known history in Japan, some establishments will not allow person’s with tattoos to come inside.

Similar to the Maori tribesmen of the Polynesian islands, the yakuza tattoos often display images that can be traced back to their tribe or clan name and type. Depending on where the person is from, the tattoos can vary in style and coloration and placement on their body. Some of the tattooed yakuza can be seen with a bare line running from the neck down to the navel, an area that is not tattooed at all. This almost gives the impression that the person is wearing a shirt made of tattoos. The tattoos also run down the arms like a sleeve of a shirt and then beyond onto and covering the hands.

Often the tattoos of the yakuza are hand poked meaning no machines are used to create the tattoos. The ink is inserted into the skin by use of very sharp hand made needles or bamboo. This process can take years and is very painful and very expensive.

Like American mobster movies, there have been movies made about the yakuza as well. Within the movie actors are given fake tattoos covering their bodies, made to look like real Japanese yakuza. Even the women have been known to receive tattoos, some more prominent and detailed than others. Mostly it is the wives or mistresses of yakuza members that have the tattoos. The daughter of a yakuza had herself tattooed very intricately and also wrote a book on the subject of her bring the daughter of a gangster.

Originally, centuries ago the Shogun would have criminals tattooed so that society would be able to tell them apart from law abiding citizens. Eventually the tattooed criminals began to band together to create a team, sticking together and working together and eventually becoming an organized type of gang which has now evolved into the Yakuza. Of course the tattoos from the Shogun era were nothing near as detailed and complex as the tattoos seen on Yakuza members today. Unfortunately there are very few pictures or documentation of what the tattoos looked like that were given to criminals back in that time. Supposedly it was only a black ring around the arm and more black rings were added each time a new conviction was earned. Some yakuza have been known to use black rings around their arm to symbolize how many people they have killed.

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