"Body Art" Blogs & Blog Posts

Last week, popular TikToker Ana Stanskovksy posted a video of herself receiving a large tattoo of her boyfriend's name ("Kevin") on her forehead. The video received widespread attention, garnering tens of millions of views, as well as a lot of critic...

In the video below, the Slo Mo Guys demonstrate how tattoo needles push ink into your skin. Of course, this is is just a simulation. Nobody has transparent skin, so they used ballistic gel—material for approximating how bullets penetrate flesh. The...

In the Ozark Mountains hamlet of Tontitown, Arkansas, an alleged act of familial bonding took a bizarre turn when Jeremy Sherland found himself in the crosshairs of local law enforcement, accused of transgressing the state's stringent statutes agains...

While machine tattooing is considered the norm in the tattoo industry, another tattooing technique—the “stick-and-poke” method—is becoming increasingly popular. There are some similarities and differences between the two types of tattooing me...

French Kindergarten teacher Sylvain Helaine, 35, has full body tattoos and recently had the whites of his eyes inked black. He says that last year, the parents of a three-year-old complained that Helaine's appearance triggered nightmares for their ch...

In Murray, Kentucky, Gallery X Art Collective tattoo artists Jeremiah Swift and Ryun King are offering free sessions to cover up racist tattoos for people who have changed their minds for the better. From CNN: "We also got a guy with a giant...

As a teenager, Mark Holmgren of Edmonton, Canada lost all use of his arm after a motorcycle accident. Last year, he decided to have the nonfunctional arm amputated. But he also had a curious request of his physicians: Holmgren wanted to keep the lost...