Miscellaneous

For hundreds of years, people all around the world have been intentionally scaring their bodies for a handful of different reasons in an array of different painful practices.

How to bend your tattoo machine's springs is just one of many things you need to know if you're going to be a proficient or professional tattooist. This lesson offers some of those tricks of the trade of tattooing.

This article gives a brief introduction to the complex history of body modification. It covers the origins of tattoos, piercings, branding, and scarification, plus today's most extreme forms of body modifications that include surgical implants.