The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Athens is home to a rich tattoo scene - from Pain and Wonder, established in 1995 ...

Tristyn Dabrowski fell into tattooing. "At one point I bought an at-home tattoo kit, but I never used it on anybody and everything was so foreign to me," Dabrowski said. "I literally had no prior ...

Laura Craver (right) tattoos Alex Johnson (left) on Friday, June 6, 2025. The tattoo represents his love story with his husband. It includes an illustration of the sequoia tree they got married inside ...

Editor’s note • This story has been updated to include additional context and comments. There’s a neon pink sign, reading “Sugar Dolls,” that greets visitors to Salt Lake City’s Sugar Studios, a ...

Despite cultural taboos, women have been getting tattoos for centuries. In ancient Egypt, women got tattoos as a form of beauty and as a status symbol. Permanent ink was seen for the first time in the ...

Nish Rowe, a machine artist currently based at Femme Fatale tattoo studios in east London, certainly feels the weight of being one of very few in the industry. "I feel like I’m very much alone here," ...

Black Heart Tattoo & Gallery™, a women-owned tattoo studio and fine art gallery located on Main Street in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, is redefining the artistic landscape of contemporary tattooing by ...

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Morgan Alynn, owner of Thistle Witch Tattoo and The Cactus Coven gift shop in downtown Longmont, set out three years ago to create the tattoo shop she always wanted: a studio where her two ...