In 2018, I paid a man a couple hundred dollars to repeatedly jam several needles into the skin of my right wrist. I felt as if I were being attacked by a microscopic cavalry of crabs. Into every jab ...

When a person gets tattooed, the ink is deposited via tiny punctures under the top layer of the skin, explained anthropologist Christopher Lynn. As a result, the body views a tattoo as a wound and ...

Whether you’re getting your first tattoo or your 10th, there’s one question likely on your mind: Where do tattoos hurt the most? It’s a fair question to wonder about beforehand, especially as you’re ...