{"id":25095,"date":"2018-04-26T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T22:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25095"},"modified":"2018-04-26T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T22:08:57","slug":"tattoo-expos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/tattoo-expos\/","title":{"rendered":"Color My World at Color Fests, Tattoo Expos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cofoe.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many are too young to know about a time when newspapers, TV and film were strictly black &amp; white. It&#8217;s hard to say if California&#8217;s immersive color\u00a0festivals (where you drench your hair, clothes and skin in colored powders,) would have become a craze without the advent of digital technologies to instantly share brilliantly-colored videos and selfies with social networks.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/colors-festivals.html\">Festivals of Color<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>VAN NUYS: Festival of Colors in San Fernando Valley Apr.28, 2018<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Color Me Rad Apr.29<\/li>\n<li>OCEANSIDE: Festival of Colors May 12<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: The Color Run May 26<\/li>\n<li>CARSON: Color Run June 23<\/li>\n<li>ALAMEDA: Color Run Aug.18<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH: Color Run Sept.29<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Festival of Colors Sept.29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another colorful craze has been tattoos. One problem for some enthusiasts (as you&#8217;ll see at tattoo expos) is they&#8217;ve run out of skin to decorate.<\/p>\n<p>Bad break-ups and other issues helped create a burgeoning tattoo removal industry: &#8220;I have been dreadfully living with my two arm tattoos over 20 years. My dream has been always to get my tattoos removed off my body.&#8221; &#8211; comment on Yelp!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to remove a tattoo, laser skin removals usually require 6-20 treatments. The total cost could be as little as $1,000 or as high as $10,000. We don&#8217;t know of any tattoo removal festivals in California, as they&#8217;re not so much fun and can&#8217;t be completed in one weekend.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-tattoo-festivals.html\">Tattoo Expos &amp; Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BURLINGAME: Bay Area Tattoo Convention May 18-20, 2018<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Ink at the Bay Tattoo Festival June 8-10<\/li>\n<li>POMONA: Body Art Expo July 13-15<\/li>\n<li>SOUTH LAKE TAHOE: Tahoe Tattoo Show July 20-22<\/li>\n<li>PASADENA: Golden State Tattoo Expo Jan.25-27, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many are too young to know about a time when newspapers, TV and film were strictly black &amp; white. It&#8217;s hard to say if California&#8217;s immersive color\u00a0festivals (where you drench your hair, clothes and skin in colored powders,) would have become a craze without the advent of digital technologies to instantly share brilliantly-colored videos and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25097,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions\/25097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}