Clean ink exists but unregulated imports from overseas can pose serious health risks. Many young artists don't know the ...

Ink is sometimes made from products that were not manufactured for tattoos. Researchers are raising concerns about the quality of tattoo ink, saying the ink isn't always properly labeled and, in some ...

Bruns said Magic Ink is made of particles of dye, encased in beads of plexiglass — the same polymethyl methacrylate material in those dermal fillers people use to plump their lips. Dermal fillers are ...

Problems? There are rashes — itchy, sometimes painful and occasionally disfiguring — which can assume fantastical shapes. Ink reactions also include pseudolymphomas — benign swellings around lymph ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- In San Francisco, there's a tattoo shop that's changing the landscape for tattoo enthusiasts and cancer patients, alike. "I think it's really exciting to be at the cutting edge of ...

Celebrity tattoo artist Keith “Bang Bang” McCurdy, who has inked Rihanna and LeBron James, partnered with nanoengineer Carson Bruns to create a light-sensitive "smart ink." BOULDER, Colo. — ...