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We're pretty picky when it comes to what we eat and drink.

We routinely scan boxes and bottles for evil ingredients such as trans fats or fructose.

And partially hydrogenated oil?

Not in my snack chips, thank you.

But when it comes to our personal-care products and cosmetics - cleansers, toners, shower gels, shampoo, body lotion, eye shadow, sunscreen, foundation - we plunk down the cash (about $35 billion a year) and then forget about it.

Moisturizers have earned our trust and loyalty more than milk.

If they're sold in a drugstore or a department store - and all the better, endorsed by a gorgeous celebrity - they mus...

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... the HUB News NOISE ''I've always been told I was a bad kid," said Gabe Bulock, 21 of Dimondale.

"(I) might as well put it on (my) body."What it is is a tattoo.

Something permanent, something indelible and no matter what it is or where it's at, it says something about the person getting it.

And it often signifies something for them as well.

Every tattoo tells a story.Bulock started getting tattoos when he was 18.

Since then, he estimates he's spent thousands of dollars decorating his body with mostly devilish-themed tattoos.

Advertisement "I could (not) really care less what people think of me," Bulock said.He works in construction, so the tattoos don't affect his job.

His girlfriend, Erica Albrecht, 19, of Dimondale, doesn't mind all of the work either; she has five tattoos herself."I always wanted to get them but he kind of inspired me more into getting them," she said.Her first one was to remember a friend who passed away and the latest two are versions of nautical stars.

"People tell me I don't look like the typical person (with tattoos)," she said.A meaningful mark Many people, like David Essex, 40, of Kalamazoo, who got his first tattoo 12 year...