Can you stomach this ink? A man has “no regrets” about this obscene tattoo stretching down his midriff, which depicts a naked woman with her legs spread wide open. It only took four hours and less than $70 for Richard Hart, 60, to get his hand-drawn design inked for his 40th birthday in South Wales … Read more
Do these tattoos transcend generations? Some artists think not. In a TikTok video amassing 17 million views, tattoo artists at San Diego’s Axiom Tattoo revealed the most common ink for millennials, or those born between 1981 and 1996. “So, millennials used to get Harry Potter tattoos, specifically the Deathly Hallow symbol,” explained one artist in … Read more
The memory remains. Metallica frontman James Hetfield has revealed a new tattoo in memory of late rocker Lemmy — using some of the Motörhead star’s ashes. Hetfield, 60, showed off the tattoo — featuring Motörhead famous “Ace of Spades” logo — made with “black ink mixed with a pinch of his cremation ashes that were … Read more
It was not a hard decision. A UK woman has spent nearly $2,000 trying to cover up tattoos a friend gave her while they were drunk — including one on her arm that looked like “a hairy penis.” One night in May 2020, Natalie Rene, 35, drunkenly thought it would be fun to bring out the … Read more
Machine Gun Kelly is taking fans behind the scenes of the blood, sweat and tears that went into his viral blackout tattoo. The 33-year-old “Bad Things” rapper shared a clip to Instagram on Monday, which he started by showing off his previously colorful upper body tats before covering a majority of them with black ink. … Read more
The Untitled Hotel at 3 Freeman Alley on the Lower East Side is chucking the traditional hotel gift shop for something a tad more permanent: Unscripted Ink, the city’s first in-hotel tattoo studio. But this is no late-night, regrettable “I ♥ NY” stamp shop. Unscripted Ink is about immersive experiences, offering everything from the fleeting beauty … Read more
This design is never gonna let her down. A 25-year-old tattoo enthusiast from Las Vegas says she got a QR code tattoo on her right arm that plays Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” on repeat when it’s scanned with a smartphone. “In my friendship group, we’d Rickroll each other. I wanted to top … Read more
She doesn’t find it appealing. A Floridian claims she has the “world’s ugliest banana tattoo on my finger” after getting ink redone this week. Marie Armstrong, of Palm Beach, took to TikTok on Monday to explain how this slip-up went down. Her rueful post has drawn 70,400 views. Armstrong said she got a tattoo of … Read more
Tatt’s terrifying. Americans are unwittingly exposing themselves to tattoo inks that contain organ-damaging chemicals, disturbing new research has revealed. An analysis of 54 inks commonly used in tattoo parlors across the United States has uncovered that a whopping 45 of them contain unlisted additives or pigments, including chemicals known to pose serious health risks. Researchers … Read more
Machine Gun Kelly is giving fans more insight into his decision to cover much of his fan-favorite chest and arm tattoos with a dramatic — and now viral — blackout tattoo. In his new piano rap ballad “Don’t Let Me Go” released Wednesday, MGK, whose real name is Colson Baker, says, “Wish I didn’t listen … Read more
Machine Gun Kelly fans are mourning the loss of his Cleveland-inspired chest tattoos — and others are accusing him of wanting to be black — upon the reveal of his massive blackout tattoo. The Grammy-nominated “Bloody Valentine” rapper showed off his new art piece Tuesday on Instagram, which turned his entire upper chest black — … Read more
Tat’s amore. Think marriage is a commitment? A UK barber recently proposed to his girlfriend with a giant “marry me” thigh tattoo — which required him to pop the question with his pants down. “I had my trousers ’round my ankles when I proposed to her,” Joe Murray, 33, told Kennedy News & Media of … Read more
Swelce’s love will last forever — on this man’s backside. A “Fearless” Australian father who got a “massive” tattoo of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on his rear end in order to win his daughters’ tickets to the Eras Tour is happy to see the couple still going strong. Luke Porter of Adelaide spent more … Read more
What lengths would you go to for a little extra height? To create the illusion of a longer torso, content creator Laura Mejia got a tattoo of her belly button — a fake one, that is. The TikToker, who boasts 1.8 million followers, shared footage of herself placing the temporary ink higher than her natural belly … Read more
You can’t make this up. A tattoo-addicted mother of seven — who has earned the title of “Britain’s most tattooed mum” — says recently covering her plentiful facial ink with makeup didn’t go over well with her youngest children. Melissa Sloan, 46, from Wales, went viral in 2022 for boasting over 800 etchings. She got … Read more
Keith “Bang Bang” McCurdy is best known for tattooing the A-list – from Rihanna and Cara Delevingne to Justin Bieber and LeBron James. But he is now embarking on a quest to turn tattoos into medical diagnostic devices, using “Magic Ink” — a tattooing ink which can be turned on or off by being exposed … Read more
The Italian actress Marisa Pavan never achieved the fame of her twin sister, Pier Angeli, a film ingénue of the 1950s who graced national magazine covers, and whose romance with James Dean and subsequent marriage to the singer Vic Damone became the stuff of Hollywood lore. Ms. Pavan — analytical, at times defiant and, in … Read more
Taylor Swift has left her mark on these superfans. Swifties across the globe are showing their devotion to the pop princess by having tattoos of her face permanently inked on their skin. Marcel Zuniga Vega got a nearly 10-inch tattoo of Swift’s face needled into his right shoulder and upper arm in 2021. “It makes … Read more
Her lips were sealed — until the wedding day. A bride from Lakeland, Florida, got matching lip tattoos with her 10 bridesmaids and waited till the maid of honor speech to announce it to the world, South West News Service reported. Taylor Downs, 28, got the tats with her friends while they celebrated her bachelorette … Read more
This Elf on the Shelf left a permanent mark. A father took the Elf on the Shelf trend to the extreme and gave himself a tattoo to fully convince his children of their elf’s mischief. Doting dad Laurence Young, 36, really wanted to get his children in the Christmas spirit. The UK-based tattoo artist set … Read more