Today, tattoos are so common that we don’t really even consider their significance. You see someone with a flower on their arm or something and never give it another thought, but tattooing is a huge part of many cultures and tattooing traditions stretch back for centuries. Many Pacific island nations hold tattoos in high regard, …
People get tattoos for all kinds of different reasons, but getting the names of your children tastefully tattooed on your body has become a common trend as of late. Johanna Giselhäll Sandström, a 30-year-old mom from Sweden, decided to do just that, but when the artist had finally wrapped up his work she realized that they …
We often think of tattoo art as a relatively new phenomenon but evidence of tattoos on humans dates back several thousands of years. Now, the discovery of artistic tattoos on an two Egyptian mummies dating back 5,000 years is helping to rewrite history in a big way. The tattoos, which depict animals including a wild …
Tattoos, like diamonds, are usually thought of as acquisitions that last forever. But a startup company called Ephemeral wants to change that. The five-person firm is developing two products, intended to work together for commitment-phobic tattoo recipients. The first is a new kind of tattoo ink that is designed to break down and disappear after …
