There’s something mesmerizing about an oh-so-beautiful tattoo. Enchanting in their colors, their inherent artistic nature, and their whiff of rebellion (a whiff, mind you just a whiff), tattoos on ...

The style, once dismissed for being culturally appropriative and meathead-y, is back. By Joseph Bernstein Reporting from Ann Arbor, Mich. Sometimes, a customer walks into Name Brand Tattoo on North ...

SOMETIMES, a customer walks into Name Brand Tattoo at North Main Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and asks Julian Bast to design a tattoo just like the ones on his Instagram account. They use words like ...

Although tattoos are ostensibly gnarly, to me they are more likely to say “I need a hug.” In-your-face tattoos connote a certain desperation but not necessarily of the desperado variety—more like ...