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June 2024

  • Woman cleansing/padding her newly tattooed arm

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Fresh tattoo? Here’s how to care for your newly inked skin

    Eight tats in, I’ve worked out a failsafe way to ensure they are healed and glorious in a fortnight

March 2024

  • Female tattoo with pink hair artist doing tattoo on client

    Oops, I did ink again: how to get a tattoo you won’t regret

  • To remove a tattoo, a laser device delivers high-intensity laser pulses to the ink. These incredibly short pulses confine the laser energy to the tiny ink particles, minimising damage to the surrounding skin

    One in four people regret their tattoo. How can I choose the best laser removal?

    Katie Lee, Claire Coulstock and Samantha Reeve

January 2024

  • A cartoon of a woman with a big heart tattoo on her chest saying 'ROGER'. The woman is gnashing her teeth.

    The beauty Q&A
    I want a tattoo, but fear I’ll regret it. What should I do?

    Got a beauty dilemma? Our expert is here to offer advice. This week, is a dry run the answer to Alex’s anxieties about getting inked?
  • Mildred 'Millie' Hull<br>American tattoo artist Mildred Hull, New York City’s first female tattooer, at her tattoo parlour 'Tattoo Emporium' in Bowery, Manhattan, USA, circa 1940. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

    Shock of the old
    Shock of the old: 10 trailblazing and transgressive tattooed ladies

    From the Siberian princess to the American heiress, some remarkable women have had themselves inked for love, art or money
  • An Invictus Games tattoo is seen on a participant during the Invictus Games at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia October 21, 2018. REUTERS/Phil Noble

    Are tattoos about to become uncool? Soon many young people will know them as something their parents have

    Jason Murphy
    If they become the preserve of only young Australians who can afford one, tattoos will start to lose their edge

December 2023

  • Radie Peat of Lankum.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Radie Peat from Lankum’s cultural highlights

    The Irish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist on her favourite tattoo artist, the TV show she watches with her children and a pagan one-man show

October 2023

  • Judge illo 28th Oct WEB

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my daughter stop getting tattoos?

    Kathleen has never liked Mona’s tattoos and piercings; Mona says she’ll do what she wants with her body. Who should stop needling who?

September 2023

  • Jamie Lloyd in a cream hoodie and black jacket sitting on a chair

    On my radar
    On my radar: Jamie Lloyd’s cultural highlights

    The award-winning theatre director on being stopped in the street to talk about his tattoos, the influence of ​the musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and the ​play he’d love to direct

August 2023

  • Close-up of a tattoo needle being used to create a design

    Brief letters
    Tattoo tribute to my suffragette heroine

  • Two women with one-letter tattoos

    Project to tattoo human rights declaration on 6,773 people comes to UK

June 2023

  • John Paterson of Ballarat, Victoria, displays tattoos from every port he has visited, as surgeon lieutenant Vic Hercus of Sydney gives him an inoculation

    River of ink: the visual histories embedded in tattoos of Australian service personnel

    Exhibition by the Australian War Memorial tells the stories of soldiers and sailors for the first time through their body art

April 2023

  • A detail from the front cover of Vogue Philippines featuring the tattoo artist Apo Whang-Od

    Indigenous tattooist becomes Vogue’s oldest ever cover star at 106

    Apo Whang-Od appears on front of Philippine edition and is credited with keeping batok form of art alive

March 2023

  • A stack of dictionaries

    Brief letters
    Whatchamacallit breaks all the rules

    Brief letters: Wordiply woes | Hearing aids | Spellchecking Ofsted | Old Testament tattoos | Cheese | Ineptitude for hire
  • Bidisha Mamata

    The Catholic church offering free tattoos? It’s a cross I’d be happy to bear

    Bidisha Mamata
    A monastic group in Vienna is offering to ink followers: with its cycle of pain and regret, it’s pure Old Testament, says Observer columnist Bidisha Mamata
  • Protesters displaying a sign that says 'no Nazis'

    Queensland to ban Nazi swastika tattoos as part of crackdown on hate symbols

    Exclusive: State will join NSW, WA and Tasmania in banning tattoos with hate symbols ‘that seek to invoke fear’

February 2023

  • Eric André and Emily Ratajkowski on his instagram account

    Pass notes
    Nothing says ‘We are an item’ like a naked selfie – just ask Eric André and Emily Ratajkowski

    The comedian and the actor have just started going out. That didn’t stop an unusually revealing ‘couple launch’ on Instagram

November 2022

  • Grace Neutral in her high-ceiling, bare brick Hackney studio with her little white dog on her lap and surrounded by art and art equipment

    ‘My parents weren’t impressed at first, but now I do my mum’: meet some of the world’s best tattoo artists

    Tattooing is constantly evolving and the most-sought after artists are superstars. Here, five of the best reveal what the craft means to them

October 2022

  • Barcelona Tattoo Expo 2021, Spain - 02 Oct 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (12521811j)
Spanish tattoo artist, Debora Cherrys works on a woman, during the Expo.
Fira de Barcelona hosts the XXIV edition of the Barcelona Tattoo Expo where tattoo artists from Spain and other countries exhibit tattoos and tattoo material such as ink, needles and special machinery for tattoo work.
Barcelona Tattoo Expo 2021, Spain - 02 Oct 2021

    ‘Like being burned with cooking oil’: how tattoo removal became a booming business

  • Cardi B is expected to testify during the trial.

    Man sues Cardi B for $5m for using his back tattoo in lewd cover art

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