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The Happiest Place on Earth isn't about to become the hairiest place on Earth, but Disney is loosening up its strict appearance rules for theme park employees: For the first time, male "cast members" will be allowed to wear beards.

The weak economy is affecting most businesses, but not tattoo parlors. Even in bad times, people will splurge on body art. And for those who later elect to have them removed, it's often a tattoo business that lasers away the ink. DailyFinance's Loren Berlin visited Tattoo Lou's to check out the state of this colorful industry.

Like them or loathe them, tattoos are going mainstream as a growing number of Americans now sport body art. And despite the recession, the tattoo industry has been doing well. Even its flip side -- tattoo removal -- can be lucrative.

While a new study published this month says that men in a midlife crisis are more likely to buy an expensive bicycle than a sports car, I want to respect the traditional avenues for middle-age acting out. Many of us of a certain decade who have more hair in their ears (and noses) than on their...

I try to tread lightly on the snarky side of cultural criticism, but when I saw that, for some odd reason, several of the week's most popular "Arts & Culture" articles on Digg had to do with tattoos, I just couldn't resist a sort of counterpoint. Tattoos, it seems, are rapidly falling away as...

The way Jay Reed figures it, the $120 he spent on getting a tattoo of a grilled cheese sandwich on his arm has more than paid for itself with the lifetime 25% discount he gets at a Cleveland-area sandwich shop. Reed was first person to get the restaurant's tattoo when the deal was announced in...

He'd worked in the Starbucks in Sherman, Texas -- an hour due north of Dallas -- for seven years, and shift-manager Benjamin Amos wouldn't have been blamed for thinking that his tattoos were a non-issue. It hadn't just been the cultural mainstreaming of tattoos in the past decade; the popularity of...

Do you have a tattoo? Have you ever wanted one? Having our bodies adorned with "skin art" is a very personal choice, and one which should not be taken lightly. I myself have a very nice tattoo on my upper left arm which features the heads of five of nature's big cats. It's a one-of-a-kind piece, it...