Getting your first tattoo rarely happens in a perfectly calm, logical moment. More often, it arrives wrapped in adrenaline and emotion, with the sense that something meaningful is about to happen.

One of the biggest mistakes first-timers make is choosing a tattoo artist without doing proper research. A tattoo is permanent, so the skill, experience, artistic style, and hygiene standards of your ...

It’s been a month since I took one of the biggest risks of my life: getting a tattoo. I had been planning it for a while. I’d scroll through Pinterest and romanticize the idea of ink permanently ...