23 Dilemmas Every Tattoo Lover Has Faced

So many ideas, so little skin.

When you're shopping online and find yourself checking out the models' tattoos instead.

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When you want to compliment a stranger's ink, but don't want to freak them out.

"Excuse me, I was just staring at your calf from across the subway platform..."

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When you find yourself constantly daydreaming about your next tattoo.

It's going to be beaaauutiful... ?

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And when you're trying to save up for it.

Tattoos ain't cheap, y'all.

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Can You Guess What Movie This Food Is From?

I’m just here for the food.

Nick Offerman's 3 Steps To Creating A Better America

During a visit to the studio where Nick Offerman recorded the audiobook to Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers, he shared with BuzzFeed his tips on creating a better America.

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Nick Offerman is perfect for telling tales. BuzzFeed sat down with him at The Village Studios in West Los Angeles, where he was recording the audiobook to his second book Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers, and he spoke in his trademark deep, methodical voice. His latest humor book consists of 21 chapters, each devoted to a different American that Nick thinks have made an impact on our country. These aren't your typical, cherry tree-chopping white dudes from your history books — in addition to George Washington, he also includes people such as Frederick Douglass, Eleanor Roosevelt, Yoko Ono, Conan O'Brien, and Willie Nelson.

According to Offerman, he's completely unlike Ron Swanson, the man America might have imagined him to be: "I love steak, I love scotch, I love woodworking, I love women that look like Tammy 2 (a character on Parks and Rec portrayed by Megan Mullally), and I am taciturn at times – but I'm just a normal sloppy human like everyone else. In my normal life, I'm very little like Ron Swanson, for better or for worse." And that's a good thing, because it's Offerman, not Ron Swanson, who has written your new guide to creating a better America.

Get your ass off social media 24/7.

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"The thing I despise about Twitter is its pull, I tried it for a couple of months, it was fun, I tweeted some funny tweets, got some followers," Offerman told BuzzFeed. "But pretty quickly, reading all of the Twitter feed, the people that correspond with me, it immediately occurred to me that whenever my attention dropped, whenever there was a lull in my day, a switch went off, let me see what's going on in Twitter land. After a couple of weeks of that, I realized I'd burned all this time reading what amounts to nothing. Then I got mad. Budget your use of social media so it's not controlling your spare time."

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23 Tips For Looking Fly While You Get Drunk This Summer

There’s a big different between fun drunk and crying-while-vomiting drunk. Don’t be the latter.

Eat a full (and, ideally, healthy) meal first.

Not all drunk foods are created equal. The best base layer for imminent drunkenness, and the one that will prevent you from becoming a sloppy mess, is one built with not JUST carbs, but also with lots of protein, produce, and healthy fats.

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Rock a small cross-body bag or fanny pack.

You'll be less likely set your purse down somewhere and potentially leave it behind. Also, smaller means less endless drunken excavations for...what were you looking for again?

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Bring gum to combat red wine mouth and booze breath.

Chew in between glasses, should Malbec be your BFF that night. Do only half a stick at a time, so you don't look like an old-timey prospector cartoon character.

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Don't spend too much time in the sun before or during drinking.

Hanging hard in sunlight sucks your body dry. And if you then pour hooch into your dehydrated bloodstream, you're going to be much drunker, much faster. So buy yourself some time by staying in the shade.

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21 Lessons Every Twentysomething Learns On Their First Trip To Ikea

Take. A. Meatball. Break.

As soon as you enter the showroom, you'll have an overwhelming desire to run around, make a fake cup of tea, and then get into bed.

You'll feel like a grown-up! Running around in a grown-up shop! Making fake tea in a grown-up shop! Getting into bed in a grown-up shop!

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And then you'll take a whole bunch of selfies in kitchens you can't afford.

"One day this will be mine. ONE DAY."

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If you're with your S.O., everything you do will feel like a massive cliché.

"This is a relationship milestone!" the clichéd voice in your head will shout. "Look at me making commitments to bae via the medium of affordable Scandinavian furniture!"

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You'll steal as many of these bad boys as you can.

You don't need 500 pencils, but you can't help yourself. You've become a pencil hoarder.

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Pinterest Adds A "Buy It" Button

Following months of rumors, the digital pinboard company prepares to enter the commerce game.

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Pinterest is transforming its digital scrapbooks into storefronts.

On Tuesday the social network announced its first foray into e-commerce, a plan to make its pinboards shoppable. Dubbed "Buyable Pins," the new program allows vendors stick a "buy" button on items they post to the site so that users who collect those items can buy them as well. Purchases can be made via credit card or Apple Pay, with payments being handled by Stripe and Braintree.

Buyable Pins is Pinterest's latest effort to squeeze revenue from its more than 70 million users. Though the company says it does not intend to collect commission on purchases made through buyable pins, it does plan to charge advertisers to promote them.

Buyable Pins will debut on iPhone and iPad later this month along with partnerships with Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom. A future release will bring them to the desktop and Android at a later date.

This Anonymous Artist Illustrates Your Inner Feminist Monologue

“I don’t mean to be a feminist bitch but I think your sexist jokes are boring.”

An anonymous artist, known online as Ambivalently Yours, is creating illustrations that are equal parts pretty and badass.

Her work, which is always set against a pastel pink background, has a fiercely feminist tone, presenting the thoughts most women have had at some point in their lives.

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Working in fashion, the artist behind AY started her project as a way to criticise the industry that was paying her wage — hence the initial need to work under a pseudonym.

"Later, I realised that my anonymity allowed for people to find themselves in the lack of specificity of my online persona. People often assume that I live in their country, or that I am their age or attribute me with any other form of similarity they are looking for," the artist told BuzzFeed Life.

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Summing up her work as "feminist rants, questionable advice and too much pink" the illustrations aim to represent the contradictions felt by many feminists who like to surround themselves with pastel, pretty things.

The artist told BuzzFeed Life that her own ~feminist awakening~ came at grad school.

"At work, I was the feminist killjoy every time I raised a concern about the sexist undertones in our campaigns, and in art school I was the fashion girl who many assumed was duped by the patriarchy just because I liked cute clothes and girly colours," she explained.

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"I felt stuck; I felt like a fraud; I felt completely ambivalent."

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