Things might be kind of dicey in the futuristic world of but in the movie, at least, one aspect is a hell of a lot easier: the tattooing process.

Yup, when Tris and Co. get inked in the Dauntless compound, it's quick and nearly painless.

Brad Wilder, head of the "Divergent" makeup department, gave MTV News the scoop on how tattooing works in Veronica Roth's dystopian world.

"They refer to them in the movie as blood tattoos," Wilder said. "There's a scene in there where [Tris] has a raven [tattooed] on it's a patch that's kind of applied over her collarbone and it looks like a kind of a hologram with a brightly colored light tube that runs to this device. Tori pushes that onto her collarbone and then within a few seconds pulls it off and there's the tattoo."

"Supposedly it somehow sucks the blood to the surface," he added. "I don't know. [Director] Neil [Burger] and everyone referred to it as a blood tattoo."

For anyone who has ever sat in a tattoo artist's chair, feeling the thousand-hornet-sting of the buzzing needle searing into your flesh for hours at a time, the above certainly sounds like a dream. (Who's Dauntless now?)

Wilder and his team's real-life application process was a little slower, however, but likely less painful.

Original designs — which were inspired by a '20s art movement called Russian Constructivism and tattoo artist Nigel Palmer — were applied to paper and mixed with glue. Once dry, they were cut out and applied to skin cleaned with alcohol, soaked in ...

When Record Store Day launched back in 2007, the only ones buzzing around the stacks of coveted vinyl were "old guys, collectors," according to founder Michael Kurtz. Now, it seems, Directioners could be usurping the white-haired set.

As vinyl sales continue to climb year over year, Kurtz said the age of Record Store Day's denizens has started to fall — a state of affairs heralded by the release of One Direction's special edition picture disc single, "Midnight Memories."

The vinyl of "Midnight Memories," which features the boys all gussied-up like hair metal rockers, was inspired (at least indirectly) by a pretty iconic source.

According to Kurtz, he was at a meeting of global Record Store Day reps when "the guy who runs KISS spoke up and said, 'This is great and we're all excited and this is good, but what are we doing to connect with teens?'"

"We said, 'Well, One Direction is on Sony, can we reach out to management and see if they would be interested in working with us on Record Store Day?'" Kurtz said.

Originally, RSD pitched the band the idea of having a picture disc for each member of the band, each featuring a different single — a kind of collectible deal.

"All of us come from that background," Kurtz said. "I'm in my 50s so I grew up with the '60s version of One Direction, The Monkees, and I bought everything. I collected everything."

The band responded with gusto, and settled on the idea of having a single record featuring the hair metal ensemble snap.

"I think it's ...

It's time to check the bank balance because one of the biggest tours of the summer is about to go on sale and you've only got three chances to catch it.

After teasing news of a joint outing
 last month, Eminem and Rihanna finally announced the dates for their Monster Tour on Wednesday (March 19).

The co-headlining stadium gigs by the frequent studio collaborators will kick off on August 7 with a show at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles before moving to New York's Metlife Stadium on August 16 and wrapping up in Slim Shady's hometown with a gig at Detroit's Comerica Park on August 22.

The general public on-sale will take place beginning at 10 a.m. on March 28, through the Live Nation mobile app and at www.livenation.com.

It will be preceded by presales for American Express card members (March 20), a Facebook presale (March 22) and a Live Nation app presale (March 27).

To RSVP for the Facebook sale for early access go to: http://bit.ly/MonsterRSVP. Mobile users can text "LNAPP" to 404040 to download the Live Nation mobile app for iOS and Android.

G-Unit were once thick as thieves, but these days 50 Cent, Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks just aren't on the same page.

Yayo took to Instagram last week to announce that he was done making music and Fif is busy prepping his June solo release, Animal Ambition. So what about Banks?

"I think he wanted his independence," 50 told MTV News on Monday just before a sit-down at Eminem's Shade 45 radio station, where he taped a SIRIUS XM Town Hall with fans set to air on March 31. "[Yayo and Banks are] like my little brothers, so at points I say things that make them uncomfortable. There was one point where you can even say I was a bit insensitive," 50 admitted.

In an MTV interview set to air in full today (March 19) on "RapFix Live," 50 explained that Banks started feeling uninspired musically after his father died in 2006. But 50 revealed that he found it hard to relate to his longtime homey's grief.

"His father passed away and I was like, 'All right, he passed away but you can't just go home and stay home,' " 50 recalled telling Banks.

LB did go on to release 2008's T.O.S. (Terminate on Sight) with G-Unit and his The Hunger For More 2 solo LP in 2010. There have been a number of solo mixtapes, too, but with each passing year, Banks has continued to withdraw from his old crew.

To 50, another rapper who also lost a parent but pulled themselves through dark times — Kanye West — is a ...

You might not guess it by looking at "Twilight" or "The Hunger Games," but YA adaptations are in a bad way. That's because nearly every attempt to capitalize off of the popularity of the book genre &#8212 "Beautiful Creatures," "The Host" and "The Mortal Instruments" being the prime examples — have failed spectacularly.

That's where "

We won't know for sure until this weekend's box office results come in on Sunday, but there are a couple of factors that hint that "Divergent" could be the film to break the cold streak.

It's common sense that comparing two books series, the more popular of the two would make the bigger movie. If there's any quantifiable way to explain why "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games," it might be the fact that the books were significantly more popular than either "Beautiful Creatures" or "The Mortal Instrument."

While book sales figures are notorious difficult to find without subscriptions to the right services, it's worth noting that "Divergent" has been atop the New York Times Children's Series chart since early November. "Beautiful Creatures" and "The Mortal Instruments" topped the chart much closer to their respective release dates and hung on for between one and three months, before handing the spot back over to "The Hunger Games."

Veronica Roth's book certainly has enough eyes on it to guarantee a success in the eyes of analysts, but the real question is whether it can take off to become something much more cultural impactful.

Then, there's Shailene Woodley, the actress that seems destined for the kind of attention ...

Forget those buds peeking out and the giant piles of filthy snow finally melting away, on the Billboard 200 album chart it's still winter. Notching its sixth non-consecutive week at #1, the soundtrack to "Frozen" will be back on top thanks to sales of 99,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

First To A Milli
With last week's figures, sales to date for the soundtrack moved to 1.4 million, with 1.1 million coming in 2014, making the album the first platinum-seller of the year so far.

Just behind was Luke Bryan's Spring Break 6 ... Like We Ain't Ever digital EP, which moved 74,000 to land at #2, giving Bryan two titles in the top 20.

All Blacc Everything
Aloe Blacc is finally getting his time to shine with Lift Your Spirit. The "Wake Me Up" hookman has scored his own hit with "The Man" and Spirit landed him at #4 on sales of 45,000. It was also a solid week for long-running ska rockers 311, whose Stereolithic debuted at #6 (41,000).

Big Dippin'
After hitting #1 last week, Rick Ross' Mastermind
 lost 73 percent of its business, moving down to #3 as sales tailed off to 49,000. It was also a big second week comedown for Pharrell Williams, with G I R L
 dipping by 60 percent to 45,000 as it slipped three spots to #5.

Young Money Rise To The Top
Among the other top debuts this week was the latest from Lil Wayne's crew, Young Money's Rise Of An Empire.
 The posse album featuring songs by Drake, Weezy, ...

Ellie Goulding made our "Divergent" dreams come true when she, along with the movie's stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James, stopped by MTV News to world-premiere her video for the soundtrack cut . But that's only one of the reasons she's our pick for this week's #WomanCrushWednesday.

The U.K. songstress also has three more songs featured on the soundtrack for the YA adaptation, which hits theaters Friday. And her voice has been woven throughout "Divergent," making Ellie the "musical voice" of the film's heroine, Tris.

We're all Goulddiggers here, but here are some reasons why ... in case you needed a little more convincing:

She Voices Our Inner Thoughts

She's Light On Her Feet

That Hair

She Knows Her Way Around A Leopard Print

She's Really Happy

And Umm, She Is Gorgeous (Total #covermoment)