What’s hip, what’s hot and what’s that which todays glam generation is gaga over? Yes, you got it right, tattoos! Though with a history as old perhaps as humanity itself, the origins of modern day tattooing lie in Polynesia and to the voyages of eighteenth century pioneers who discovered the tatau and brought it back to Europe.

Initially popular amongst sailors and for long regarded a mark of subversive-ness and non-conformity, tattoos today are by and large an acceptable art form gaining popular currency with people of all ages across the globe. The form is especially popular with the youth of today and many teenagers and young adults seek to express their individuality or understanding of or with society at large through tattooing. Indeed, such is its popularity that Tattoo Me Now reports that for the month of January 2008 Yahoo Search alone registered around 1,044,390 hits on tattoos.

What is Tattoo Me Now? It’s a one stop solution to all issues and concerns regarding tattooing. An online portal, it brings together a host of tattoo artists and designs and helps clients locate safe and certified tattoo artists near them to tattoo them with a design of their choice. The three simple ways to getting a tattoo of your choice through this site are as follows.

First of all, you sign up with a valid email address. Then, you browse through the exhaustive tattoos in the Members Gallery; this features around 3,523 funky designs, each different and unique from the other. This then, you take a print out and go on to the Studio Gallery to locate amongst 10,000 studios spread over in 38 countries one specific to your locale and needs and fix an appointment with the same.

However, before going ahead and getting that tattoo on forever, do remember to resolve any doubts or issues with members and other artists in the Discussion Forum. And just in case you thought this was it, there is also The Video Vault wherein you can browse through 12 different categories of educational yet fun videos addressing a range of issues related to tattooing. Once a member, Tattoo Me Now will also send you news and articles related to tattooing and tattoo events all across the globe.

Finally, not to forget this important aspect of any service today, Tattoo Me Now guarantees hundred percent customer satisfaction and has a strict privacy policy which makes sure that members’ information is never passed on to outside, third parties except where it relates to the orders placed by members.