When tattoos first emerged in the 1800s, they were considered a sign of being a criminal or deviant. Today, they are increasingly commonplace. According to one estimate, 38 percent of adults between ...

Though tattoos date back thousands of years, society today tends to view them quite negatively, attaching a stigma to them, despite nearly one-third of Americans having one. Tattoos are meant to show ...

Anyone over 40 years of age likely remembers an era when a tattoo communicated that you had done time in prison, the navy, or a circus. Much has changed since then. Tattoos now appear on people from ...

I’ve always loved tattoos. When I was a kid, I covered my arms with Bic pen and Crayola marker pictures. My parents, scandalized, insisted I wash them off immediately. Only low class, poorly educated ...

With two full sleeves of tattoos at age 68, Barb Jerabek turns heads. She has ready advice for people of her generation who ask her advice about getting ink: “If not now, when?” Jerabek said, “Time ...

Tattoos are a very unique form of expression, with every work of art having different meanings. However, one specific type of tattoo is now getting a lot of attention: the ‘five-dot tattoo’ on the ...