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Sailors adorning their bodies with tattoos is a well-established Navy tradition, and the featured shipmates from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt are no exception. Ships, anchors, swallows, mermaids, turtle shells and more memorialize special memories or career milestones asea, such as crossing the equator or eclipsing 5,000 nautical miles […] Click here to view full […] More

Robert Shoemaker is a professor of 18th-century British history at the University of Sheffield and Zoe Alker is a lecturer in 19th-century history and digital humanities at the University of Liverpool. CNN is showcasing the work of The Conversation , a collaboration between journalists and academics to provide news […] Click here to view full […] More

Once in a blue moon, a tattoo artist surfaces that completely takes the industry by storm. One of these artists is Eden Kozokaro, better known as Kozo Tattoo on Instagram. His impressive color micro designs have captivated social media, both because they’re technically flawless and reference pop culture classics. […] Click here to view full […] More

Whether someone is getting their first or 30th tattoo, there are a few major decisions that need to be made: where they are going to get it, what exactly they’re going to get, and what style or colors are they going to get it in. Some know immediately that […] Click here to view full […] More

However, as around the globe, the tradition of tribal tattooing and body art in Asian and African countries was denigrated and deemed “savage” because the practice was unfamiliar to European colonists. Settlers and missionaries imposed on the areas where they ruled, and tattoo culture slowly died away. They called […] Click here to view full […] More

Australian tattoo artist Lauren Winzer has literally made her mark on the industry. In just a few years, the 31-year-old has built a loyal Instagram following with her uber colourful, quirky and one-off designs. She’s also quickly attracted a long list of celebrity clients from Miley Cyrus to Joe […] Click here to view full […] More

Three-dimensional tattoos offer a new alternative for creating a natural-looking nipple after breast reconstruction. For most women, accessing this option means finding a tattoo artist with the skill to create these detailed tattoos. Now a new device called Nipple By Number ® enables plastic surgeons to perform realistic-looking 3D […] Click here to view full […] More

Thomas Whitton was a laborer and shoemaker from Shoreditch, east London. He was just 13 in June 1836 when he was convicted at the Old Bailey for shoplifting printed cotton. His sentence was transportation to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania.) When he arrived on the shores of Australia a year […] Click here to view full […] More

George ‘Old Doc’ Webb tattooed thousands of sailors in his shops on Vallejo’s Lower Georgia Street and in downtown San Diego. (Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum files) The Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum has scheduled a Jan. 4-Feb. 29 exhibit highlighting California’s history of women with tattoos, and a […] Click here to view full […] More

Breastfeeding is arguably one of the most natural aspects of life, but some still don’t know it today given how many react to it or form opinions about and around it. The act has been essential for life for thousands of years — if not longer — and yet […] Click here to view full […] More

SHOW INFO Australian Tattoo Show Featuring: Tattooed Model Search Competition Lots of Live Music including interstate acts and stage performers! Valkyrie Odin Piston Fist Southbound Snake Charmers Scoobie Celebrity guests and judges! Be apart of the Live Television Pilot being filmed! VBTK formed in 2013 and since then they […] Click here to view full […] More

Baghdad (AFP) At 16, Maram is as old as the political system she and fellow Iraqi youth are railing against. But the spunky teen has her own way of protesting: inking tattoos. In the blue-tinged light inside a tarp tent, the petite teenager carefully moves her mechanised tattoo pen […] Click here to view full […] More