Miscellaneous

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.

My tattoo artist Frank Lopez and I had a candid talk about what attitudes or practices might make or break a tattoo artist's career. This is a candid interview with one of LA's best tattoo artists.

By following these simple steps, one can increase the odds of getting rid of an employer's perception about body modification to land a new job.

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.

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