NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Through the doors of a quiet tattoo shop in North Kansas City, a local artist sits in a small room, carefully laying out her tools for her first appointment of the day. Her ...

Instead of sitting in a tattoo chair for hours enduring painful punctures, imagine getting tattooed by a skin patch containing microscopic needles. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

“Permanent Behavior: Getting Tatted in the Bay,” is our four-part series, about local tattoo artists. In these stories, we dive into the permanence of ink as it resides on impermanent beings. “It’s ...

The first time I cut myself, I didn't even realize I was doing it. I was at a high school party with one of my favorite people, whose effortless brand of "Naturally Glamorous with a Heavy Dose of ...

Getting a tattoo may soon be pain-free and take a lot less time. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed a tattoo that can be self-administered. Microneedles are arranged on ...

Tattoo methods that you can learn in a single day, called "tattoo one-day classes," are increasing. As these courses even have people tattoo themselves in "self tattoos," questions are being raised ...

So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...