The tattoo shop that you choose for your tattoo can make or break your experience. Precociousness is never advised, nor is last-minute decisions when it comes to your skin, your tattoo and more importantly: your health. While it is say to safe to that most tattoo shops that you will find are following and adhering to the state defined or city defined health protocols and will be properly …

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The dichotomy of tattoos can be traced all the way back to ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, various African tribes and civilizations, the Mayans, the Incans, the Mohicans and even certain tribes of Native Americans; some historians purport that tattoos go even further back, but anecdotal records corroborate that these ancient peoples were some of first to fashionably inject ink into their skin. Over the …

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We take a look at this month’s tattoo artist spotlight: Jon Nibset from Rumford, Maine, who uses his tattooing skills to help raise funds for the fight against cancer.
Jon Nisbet – a premier tattoo artist …

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“A tattoo will be on your body forever,” were the fond words of advice that my mother offered to me when I was heading out to the tattoo parlor for my very first tattoo upon turning the age of 18 – where I also promptly bought a pack of smokes, a lottery ticket and registered to vote; how rebellious, right? As if any person thinks that a tattoo …

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Tommy Lee set a new, mile-high record this year for flying 45,000 feet in the air while getting penetrated … with a tattoo needle.

Mario Barth of Starlight Tattoo gave the infamous drummer a black and gray tattoo of a peacock on his thigh as they flew from Burbank to Miami aboard a private jet (Tommy’s). The stunt landed Lee and Barth in the Guinness Book of World Records for “First-Ever to Perform a Tattoo in High Altitude.” Barth, whose client …

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From the margins to the mainstream – attitudes toward tattooing and piercing from the late 1950s to the present day.

“…Scars of self-harm, tattooing and body piercing are often associated with diagnosis of personality disorders or substance misuse.”

You can’t judge a book by its cover. Or can you? The practice of cosmetic alteration of the body, as ancient a human practice though it may be, has gone through peaks and troughs of popularity in the modern world. A trend of the …

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If a tattoo virgin stumbles upon a parlor, he or she may quickly realize shop talk can be hard to understand. Select key words and phrases are as common as tribal tats to typical parlors. This wayward language is intrinsic to the tattoo industry and, over the years, both artists and collectors have become fluent in the native tongue. This inked dialect is what we dub tattoo slang.

A noob (newbie or tenderfoot) is sure to get lost in this ocean …

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We are fully aware that tattoos were initially associated with criminals. Thanks to the realizations of modern society, tattoo designs nowadays are as normal as pierced ears.

But back to that early association of tattoos to gangs and criminals, it somehow follows that tattooing is quite a normal routine done inside prison cells. There, in the absence of appropriate materials and sterilizing tools, a prison tattoo machine (tattoo gun) has been created. The homemade version of the real deal accomplishes …

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So what does it take to get the word out about your artwork?

Alive and booming in the 21st century, thousands of tattoo artists across the world are making their mark in their clients’ skin, and technology has pulled through to the aid of their work.

With the help of Myspace.com, Rankmytattoos.com, inkednation.com, inkedmag.com, and bmezine.com, artists are getting the word out on their work in more ways than one. Many artists even have their own personal websites …

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