A tattoo artist (also tattooer or tattooist) is an individual who applies permanent decorative tattoos, often in an established business called a "tattoo...

Scott Campbell (born May 13, 1977) is an American artist and tattoo artist whose clients include Howard Stern, Sting, Robert Downey Jr., Courtney Love...

This is a list of notable tattoo artists. Gay, Kathlyn; Whittington, Christine (2002). Body Marks: Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarification. Twenty-First...

1953) is an American tattoo artist and writer. He founded New York City's oldest tattoo shop, Fun City Tattoo, in 1976, before tattooing was legal in the...

Daniel Joseph Silva (born July 13, 1993) is an American celebrity tattoo artist and reality TV show star from Gilroy, California. Silva was the driver...

Shane O'Neill (born 1972) is an American tattoo artist in Middletown, Delaware. He is best known for winning the first season of the Spike TV show Ink...

Tattoo artists create these designs using several tattooing processes and techniques, including hand-tapped traditional tattoos and modern tattoo machines...

sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket...

The American boxer Mike Tyson has at least seven tattoos. Three—at least two of them prison tattoos—are portraits of men he respects: tennis player Arthur...

Marjorie Knight (8 January 1904–1992) was the first prominent female tattoo artist in the UK. Jessie Knight was born in Croydon in South London, in 1904...

of possible tattoo tools suggest tattooing was practiced by the Upper Paleolithic period in Europe. However, direct evidence for tattooing on mummified...

1971) is an American tattoo artist, restaurateur, and reality television personality. Along with guitarist Dave Navarro and tattoo artist Chris Nunez, he was...

is a tattoo artist, sculptor, painter, filmmaker and musician living in New York City. Booth is known for his use of black and gray ink tattoo work depicting...

"Bang Bang" McCurdy (born November 28, 1985) is an American celebrity tattoo artist based in New York City. He is known for his work with Rihanna, Cara...

technique of tattooing, creating a tattoo, involves the insertion of pigment (via tattoo ink) into the skin's dermis. Traditionally, tattooing often involved...

inspiration of tattoo artists. Other accounts place the emergence of new school tattooing during the late 1980s and 1990s. Tattoo artist Marcus Pacheco...

A tattoo machine (colloquially referred to as a tattoo gun) is a hand-held device generally used to create a tattoo, a permanent marking of the skin with...

Bosnian Croat women about their tattoos. Religious perspectives on tattooing "Traditional Croatian Tattoos: Meet the tattoo artist keeping tradition alive"....

Mexican-born American tattoo artist, television personality, entrepreneur and recording artist. She is best known for her work as a tattoo artist on the TLC reality...

trained a generation of professional tattoo artists, who went on to develop the American traditional ("old school") tattoo style by combining sailor traditions...

Tattoo inks consist of pigments combined with a carrier, used in the process of tattooing to create a tattoo in the skin. These inks are also used for...

performance artist and tattoo artist, whose full body tattoo theme is that of a tiger. Katzen is the German word for cats. She received extensive tattooing on...

Criminal tattoos are classified in different ways. The meaning and histories of criminal tattoos vary from country to country, and they are commonly assumed...

features tattoo artists who compete in various challenges assessing their tattooing and related artistic skills. They are judged by renowned tattoo artists and...

Tattoo Redo features the horror stories behind botched tattoos and the efforts of professional artists (Tommy Montoya, Miryam Lumpini, Rose Hardy, Matt Beckerich...

was one of the most well-known traditional tattoo artists. Amund Dietzel (1890–1974), Norwegian-born artist who began his career as a sailor, before settling...

shop manager, and her good friend Corey Miller as a tattoo artist. After considering many more artists for the job, Von D hired Hannah Aitchison and Kim...

Malarkey, born April 29, 1987), known as Ryan Ashley, is an American tattoo artist known for her appearances on the television shows Ink Master and its...

buri, among other names, are general terms for indigenous tattoos of the Philippines. Tattooing on both sexes was practiced by almost all ethnic groups...

Traveling tattoo artists developed sketchbooks of designs that were easy to transport and show to potential customers. The development of electric tattoo machines...