What do you give a photography pal who already has every camera, lens, and accessory under the sun? Gift skin ink of the nonpermanent variety in the form of the Tattly Camera Tattoo Set ($25). Since the photographers we know are rarely without a camera, a tattoo of any duration seems like a natural next step. The illustrations by three Brooklyn designers are not your average grocery-store Read more

Tats on tots? Tattoos are a divisive aesthetic on adults; the thought of a child actually getting their sweet lil skin permanently inked is a pretty unpleasant idea, to say the least. Yet that's exactly what 10-year-old Gaquan Napier did with the full support of his mother Chuntera. According to the law in Georgia, where the family lives, it's illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to get Read more

Dermablend has long been known for its heavy-duty cover-up, but this new commercial really cements its reputation. In it, an average-looking guy slowly reveals himself to be tattoo-covered model "Zombie Boy" Rick Genest. His name might not be immediately familiar, but Genest's tattoos should be. He's the guy with the full-body skeleton tattoos from Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" video, and it's Read more

Apparently, it's not too hard to rig up a DIY tattoo machine if you have nine-volt batteries, a pen, a toothbrush, a needle, masking tape, parts from a DVD player, and a little ingenuity. Famed tattoo/fine artist Scott Campbell (his ink is on Marc Jacobs, Courtney Love, Sting, and Orlando Bloom, among others) and filmmaker Casey Neistat recently did a very scary thing and built their own Read more

Just when you thought face tattoos would forever be the realm of Mike Tyson, Chanel comes along and makes them not only haute, but also elegant and even . . . pretty? For its upcoming Cocomation campaign, the fashion house released these cool making-of photos with surpassingly beautiful Lagerfeld favorite Freja Beha Erichsen getting the iconic locked-C logo applied under her eyes in temporary Read more

Want to have the fate of your tattoo in someone else's hands? Check out the Social Tattoo Project, then. Every week, the Project asks its Twitter and Facebook followers to vote for one of four trending Twitter topics about politics or social justice, and then a volunteer gets a tattoo about the topic — hashtag and all. The volunteers don't find out what their tattoo is about until their new Read more