LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - An East Texas tattoo shop is going back to the basics with their old school take on the age old practice. The tattoo artists at Black Spot Tattoo Company solely use the hand-poke ...

For purveyors of an artform that’s famously permanent, tattoo artists sure like to switch things up. In studios and shops around the world, younger artists are challenging the traditional ways of ...

Katyani Jaswal, 24, was 10 when her brother got his first tattoo. She’s been plotting her own first ever since, but wanted it to be at the hands of someone she connected with. It would be ten years ...

The pandemic rendered most of us unable to fulfil our ink insatiability, but one type of tattoo has been enjoying a resurgence across social media: hand-poke, or stick-and-poke tattoos, as you may ...

So coined 'stick 'n' poke' tattooing, the non-electric method that's done freestyle with needle and ink, is having a major moment – ironic given that it's an ancient art form. While the technique has ...

The sun is just beginning to drop toward the horizon when Taylor Elyse Compton meets me at the front of her Yucca Valley studio. Located in a collective that includes floral stylist The Bloomin Gypsy, ...

Tattoos are more common than you may think. Recent statistics suggest that over 35% of men and women in the U.S. over the age of 18 have at least one piece of ink tattooed somewhere on their body.