Have you ever wondered what the meaning is behind a person's tattoo? Well, you're in luck. Here is a handy guide to help you learn the traditional meaning, or meanings, behind a huge assortment of different tattoos. Of course, everyone has their own personal meanings attached to ...read more
Imagine what it would be like to be the one and only tattoo artist in your entire country. Pretty cool, right? Well, in 1925 Scottish tattoo artist Prince Vallar could lay claim to that title. ScotlandsPeople, a genealogy website run by Scotland's government, has named Vallar the ...read more
Some parents are wanting to get maybe too close to their kids. Showing affection for a child is never wrong. Wearing a badge of motherhood is even more encouraged, but there are ways of showing love without being creepy about it. Especially that your baby might not want this ...read more
The man behind the iconic "Hope" poster during Barack Obama's first presidential campaign, Shepard Fairey, is a contemporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator and founder of OBEY Clothing. He had emerged from the skateboarding scene, and threads his gritty ...read more
Art, with a Message Words by: Paul Gambino Photos by: Chad Daly The art coming out of Daly’s studio is a combination of ancient origami, currency engraving and modern, high tech engineering. Here the three come together to create works of art that have part of their social ...read more
He is grooossss! Duh! So many cartoon characters are cute as hell on screen. SpongeBob, Mickey and even Homer. However, pull them out of their two-dimensional all pastel colored world and bring them into the harsh 3-D light of humankind and things go from heavenly to hellish in a ...read more
One Day at a Time. Beating an addiction is something to be proud of. Very proud of! A person fighting their way out of an addiction deserves the utmost respect and support. So, it only seems fitting that many people get "sobriety" tattoos as a badge of honor, a war medal, a ...read more
Inked is lucky to present the latest project from the modern day Renaissance man Evan Seinfeld, Badass TV. Whether he is rocking faces off in one of the many bands he has been in, like Attika 7, or playing a imprisoned biker on OZ you know that Seinfeld is going to bring it. And ...read more
Shooting from the hip with a Detroit artist who turns illegal firearms into works of art. For the last couple of decades, that’s right decades, the city of Detroit, Michigan has been on the receiving end a lot of bad press. Some of it deserved and some of it media hype. The ...read more
You Own Mystery Spot! These floors are a combination of people’s dreams and nightmares. A bathroom floor infested with sharks in shallow water. A bed precariously perched on the cliff overlooking a Brazilian rainforest or a bizarre geometric pattern that makes it hard to stand up ...read more
The Tattoo Industry Needs a #metoo Moment Alex Bage is a traditional tattoo artist at Fat Panda Tattoo in the United Kingdom. Aside from his career Bage is also a dad and husband. He is married to a fellow tattoo artist, known as @Hayleytattooer on Instagram. His beautiful ...read more
My favorite “trap soul” alt-rock babe Bishop Briggs has a new single out today, called “White Flag” — a song that is an empowerment anthem for the masses, featuring lyrics like “I won’t go down slow” and “won’t wave my white flag, no.” The song rides the cusp of loud anthemic ...read more
These tats are scary good! Walk into any tattoo shop in almost any city and between the flash on the wall — well, that would be if you walked into an old school shop — and the tats fresh on the arm, odds are there would be plenty of skull related tattoo imagery for as far as the ...read more
Last night we were at a cocktail bar in Los Angeles when a group of, well, “bros," saddled up next to us and asked the bartender, “What’s on special?” The bartender recoiled, then steadied himself and asked them what kind of spirits they prefer. He talked them up from from well ...read more
Anyone want a slice? We get hour 100s of hours of video coming across our desk — via our computers – each and every week. Some are good, most are bad and a few are amazing. This particular video had us “pop eyed’! Can’t talk too much about what goes on in the video or we will ...read more
Periods and Other Body “Flaws”! Cinta Tort Cartró is a 21-year-old Barcelona-based artist who goes by the nom de plume of Zineta. Most recently she has focused her attention to the female body and all its “society deemed flaws”. She has decided to embrace these “flaws” and create ...read more
Mobile communications company Swiftkey recently released their "Emoji Report." After they studied over one billion pieces of Android and iOS data from 16 different languages and regions, some interesting facts have been revealed about localized emoji use. Some stats are more ...read more
Jake “Creep” Crawley makes motorcycle-inspired designs that make our tattooed skin tingle. Jake Crawley may be a creep, but he’s the best kind of creep. He’s the kind of creep that likes getting bugs stuck in his teeth when he’s zooming through the desert on his Harley, the kind ...read more
Go Big or Go Home! Sean “Diddy” Combs is a huge believer in the expression “go big or go home,” so when he decided to get a Bible-themed tattoo, naturally, he went with a massive and incredibly lifelike rendering of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus that covers his entire back. ...read more
From Thumb-Sized Portraits to Detailed Fabric Patterns Tiny tattoos are all the rave amongst celebutantes these days. From the Jenner sisters to Hailey Baldwin, Zoe Kravitz, Miley Cyrus, and many others, the paparazzi magnets have been adorning their bodies with miniature tats. ...read more
Magical! Mystical! Mesmerizing! Okay, we know how important it is for most women to have their nails all done up and we've seen a host of nail fads, or should we say styles, come and go. However, for the most part these trends have been dictated by holidays, movies and/or popular ...read more
The most iconic superheroine rendered in ink. Wonder Woman is by far the most iconic superheroine of all time. Yeah, Storm, Rogue and Phoenix from X-Men are high up on the totem pole, but they all pale in comparison to DC Comics' amazonian demigoddess. Don't debate me on this! ...read more
She’s One Proud Canadian, Eh? Canada is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its confederation this year, and a Reddit user named Jess decided to mark the momentous occasion by getting the most Canadian of Canadian tattoos – an impressive piece on her calf of a beaver riding a ...read more
From Meme to the Streets! Memes have been known to spawn a lot of things — an annoying catch phrase, an unfunny cliché, a ubiquitous hokey image, to name just a few. However, in the case of the “Virgin Killer Sweater” we are more than happy to completely embrace the ...read more
It Actually Isn’t as Creepy as It Sounds Although views on tattoos were at their most putrid levels in the early 1990s, plenty of people were still basking in ink. With the popular misconception that the art of tattoo was reserved for the lowest of lowest in society – like ...read more
These Artists Breathed New Life Into These Tattoos Regrettable tattoos will never cease to exist. Whether it's a tattoo done in the spur of the moment by a sketchy artist or something you let your friend scratch on you, people sometimes simply just get bad tattoos. Luckily, there ...read more
19th Century Ink When one thinks of people from the Victorian era, thoughts of well-to-do individuals with forbidding expressions on their faces come to mind. These folks would never think of marking their bodies with tattoos. Well, it seems like we may have been wrong with that ...read more
Matching Tattoos For Yourself Symmetry in art occurs when the various elements of a painting, drawing or sculpture are composed in such a way that they are perfectly balanced, creating an image that is aesthetically pleasing. The same is true for tattoos. Think about the Thai sak ...read more
Why Get Inked When You Can Get Sprayed? British airbrush artist, Vicky McAdam, learned the craft of applying airbrushed tattoos in the United States, and she introduced it to folks back in the U.K. who absolutely loved the idea of it, turning airbrush tattoos into the latest body ...read more
Don't forget to blink! You know the drill: We see beautiful girls with tattoos, and we share them with you! We love tattoos, and we love sexy women, so it's the perfect combination. These girls have bodies that are works of art, both naturally and through their ink. They have ...read more
Rumor Has it That Kobay Kronik May Be Tattooing in L.A. Soon We hear that award-winning artist, Kobay Kronik, is looking to relocate from Istanbul to the sunny streets of Los Angeles soon, and we simply cannot contain our excitement! As one of the best tattoo artists in the ...read more
Do Your Grandparents Look This Awesome? Charlotte Guttenberg and Chuck Helmke are recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s most tattooed Senior Citizens, and if that wasn’t enough of a prize, the two also fell blissfully in love with one another—all because of their ...read more
Bone-afide Fabulous Art! Skulls. Skulls. Skulls. If you're like me you can’t get enough of them. For so many of us the skull was one of our first true childhood fears. That's right, the skull was its own entity. It symbolized everything that was scary, spooky and downright ...read more
VIVID VIVKA - THE NERDIEST AND DIRTIEST! Vivid Vivka is everything you look for in a cosplay girl. She' s cute as a kitten and nerdy enough to warm your heart. She's a talented costume maker and will beat you at any video game you challenge her to. Oh wait, and there's one more ...read more
Tackling Multiple Mediums Fifteen-year tattoo veteran, Darwin Enriquez, didn’t intend on slinging ink for a living. His entrance into tattooing started through his skill for drawing. Looking through tattoo magazines, Enriquez felt that he had the necessary artistic aptitude to ...read more
Baby got back... tats Everyone loves a good back tattoo. When you want to get a big piece of artwork done on your body, the first place you think about is your back. With so much room to work with and the ability to hide it whenever you want, it makes a great location for some ...read more
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might quite possibly be the coolest head of state—especially now that Barack Obama is no longer in power. PM Trudeau hangs out with the likes of singer The Weeknd, he fights for refugees' and women's rights – pledging $650 million to expand ...read more
Perfect Pixels Video games can be more than just a game; some people devote their lives towards playing games. Some can be pretty moving once you get into them, so it's no surprise when people across the globe want a part of a game cemented on their skin forever. Check out this ...read more
The Curious and Wondrous Tattoos of Alberto Moreno A gun-toting chimpanzee, a tiger with a bandana on its head, a panda bear wearing a monocle and bowler hat and smoking a pipe, and a dog sporting boxing gloves. This isn’t some kind of twisted zoo exhibit—these are the tattoos ...read more
We’re not here to say bigger is better, but when it comes to a back piece, well, we’re here to say bigger is better. Devote that much skin-canvas to an artist and it better be damn good. Although YOU will rarely see it, back pieces are some of the most impressive tattoos around — ...read more
The Berlin Bombshell in Full Frontal Ink! …Back Piece! For most guys who know what the model Jill Hardener looks like, they will surely agree that her last name is very apropos. This Berlin beauty has been killing it all over the gram and Facebook lately… and rightly so. It ...read more
20 Sick Chest Tattoos That'll Leave You Floored Around here we believe that if you're going to get your chest tattoo, you either go big or go home. The chest is one of those wide open spaces of canvas on your body that — much like your back — you can go wild with when it comes to ...read more
Being discriminated for a job because of your tattoos isn’t anything new, but a paying customer being turned away from an establishment – a bar of all places – because of your ink is definitely new territory. U.S. Marine veteran Brandon Andrus was recently denied entry into ...read more
The backlash from the “unruly” skull tattoo Drake had done in November was pretty severe – some likened the tat to a “25 cent temporary tattoo,” while others thought the flaming skull looked more like an “angry [Brussels] sprout” – but that hasn’t deterred the 6 God from going ...read more
Jennifer Liles, a tattoo artist based in Toronto, is doing her part to raise awareness about the plight of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada, by donating a day’s earnings once a month to organizations advocating for the cause, or to families of these exploited ...read more
All Sorts of Places You can do whatever you want with your body, and you can get a tattoo wherever you want. Some people choose to have tattoos that you can't see in their every day life, and some people like to have them right out in the open, covering their body. A select few ...read more
There's an interesting Instagram account that's been garnering a massive following for their willingness to bare it all (well, mostly all) for their followers—ass, side boob, you name it. The Instagram page Get Naked Australia set out to promote healthy body image, and ...read more
15 Tattoos Reppin' 'Hoods Around the World Would you be down to represent your hometown or state with a tattoo? Rapper Paul Wall will tell you that reppin' your 'hood through body art is one of the most satisfying things you can do, as the hip-hop artist recently got a tattoo of ...read more
Reppin’ your ‘hood in ink has been a staple in the tattoo game for quite some time. Whether it’s the Hollywood sign across your back or a killer sleeve of Lady Liberty surrounded by subway cars, folks around the world are all about getting tattoos that pay homage to their ...read more
This coming weekend looks like a good time to get a tattoo. Chicago's Great Lakes Tattoo will be holding their second annual Walk Up Classic, a two-day event featuring 22 artists from all over the good ole U.S. of A., all coming together to tattoo some gnarly flash pieces. Read ...read more
