Imagine this: One day, you're bored. So bored that you start looking up all the tattoos you've ever wanted. A random number on your hand, perhaps. An insignia on your wrist. You'd typically go to a ...

Rihanna gets inked by celebrity tattoo artist, Bang Bang. (Photo: Instagram) Before you clutch your pearls, take heed that the motor-driven appliance comes with sterilized needles, tubes, rubber ...

Decorating the skin with ink designs is an ancient human custom; Ötzi the Iceman, dug out of the Alps in 1991, had over 50 tattoos covering his body. However, the modern era of dermal art began in ...

An L.A. exhibition shows how a Brooklyn-based tattoo artist set up shop with Mexican inmates, built new tattoo rigs, and documented the results in photo-accurate paintings. I just wanted to fall in ...

Tattoos are thought to be more popular than ever, but some people are taking things into their own hands and tattooing themselves. The dangerous trend is said to be growing. Why? Celebrities have them ...

Temporary tattoos can be made using henna, eyeliner, or just writing on someone with a marker, but if you want to trace a design you cannot draw freehand here's a technique using tracing paper, ...

The needle pokes into your skin, piercing it so the tattoo drips into your flesh. Poke, poke, poke. It hurts, but don't you dare wince: You're the one hammering the ink into yourself. A heart on your ...