Blackout tattooing involves saturating large areas of skin with dense black ink in a single or extended process. This places ...

After weeks of social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic, a lot of us are starting to go stir crazy. While boredom has driven some people to cut their own bangs or maybe dye their hair that ...

A person’s tattoos convey their personal history, excerpts from a diary painted in ink. More indelible than memory, tattoos have been used since the time of early humans to tell aspects of a story: to ...

Tattooing involves breaking the skin, which immediately introduces the risk of infection if conditions are not tightly controlled. Gyms are high-contact environments where bacteria and bodily fluids ...

Tattooing and body piercing are somewhat trendy now, having gained popularity in the 1990s. However, these forms of "body modification/body art" are anything but new. Both have been around since ...

MILTON -- Inside the Eustis Estate in Milton is an exhibit of expression. The "Loud, Naked, & In Three Colors" exhibit shows the history of tattooing in Boston. "The very, very early tattoos were ...

Alissa Greenberg is an independent journalist based in San Francisco and Boston who specializes in science, culture, travel, ...

The art of tattooing may have found a diagnostic twist. A team of scientists in Germany have developed permanent dermal sensors that can be applied as artistic tattoos. A colorimetric analytic ...

The "Tattooed New York" exhibit is opening at the New-York Historical Society on February 3rd, and while it will examine three centuries of tattooing in New York, we're going to zero in on one odd era ...

This fall, the inaugural cohort of Rhode Island School of Design students enrolled in ILLUS 3701-01: “Introduction to Tattooing,” the first tattooing course offered in the school’s history. The class, ...