Hype: An update on the temporary tattoo and talking T-shirts
GET A (TEMPORARY) TAT. Tattly's temporary tattoos are for those who are old times kiddie tattoos, but are not sold on the whole needles-dyeing-your-skin-forever thing. These tattoos are the product of designers coming together to one-up often unfashionable temporary children's tattoos. Designs count one that says "Mother" above a sailor's anchor. Another says "I Young lady NY More Than Milton Glaser," maker of the original "I Love NY" enterprise. The screen of the watch tattoo says "Late" and wraps around the wrist. Knuckle tattoos magnetism out four letter phrases.</p><p> Most Tattly tattoos last at least five days and a set of two is $5, which includes shipping. A wet the priesthood is all that's needed to apply the tattoos, which makes getting them on as easy as applying the children's models. But muse on, since these aren't real tattoos, many of them don't look real. The ones that show skin through the design look more hard-boiled than some of the solid colored ones, which can come off looking more like stickers. For more information, go to Tatt.ly.</p><p> SAY IT WITH YOUR T-SHIRT. The minds behind CollegeHumor.com convey you BustedTees, T-shirts with funny phrases and drawings on them. Shirt categories range from "wordplay" to "manoeuvring" to "pop culture." Shirts from BustedTee give wearers an opportunity to unqualified themselves in an amusing, and often ironic, way. They can demonstrate their passion for the Second Amendment with a shirt showing a man with furry generate arms. They can show their concern about global warming with a shirt showing a sweating Earth, saying "This is Why I'm Hot." They can flourish their support for the legalization of gay marriage with a shirt illustrating two blue "Life" racket pieces riding in a plastic car with "legalize it" written underneath.</p><p> But the shirts don't have to have any deeper meanings. BustedTees offers shirts consanguineous to popular television shows and movies, such as a "One Man Wolf Pack" shirt for the silver screen "The Hangover" and a "Bon Temps Football" shirt for the video receiver show "True Blood."</p><p> Most shirts are $20 each, but selections in the space section are $10. BustedTees even has a Shirt of the Month Club. For $50, members get a complimentary shirt every month for three months, and free standard shipping. Go to bustedtees.com for more.</p><p> (Merrie Leininger writes Hype for McClatchy-Tribune Hearsay Service. You can write to her at mleininger@mctinfoservices.com.)
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