Tattoos are more common than you may think. Recent statistics suggest that over 35% of men and women in the U.S. over the age of 18 have at least one piece of ink tattooed somewhere on their body.

Stick-and-poke tattoos are essentially the OGs of body modification. A European Tyrolean Iceman buried around 3250 B.C. (5,300 years old!) was discovered to have 61 tattoos all over his body.

While machine tattooing is considered the norm in the tattoo industry, another tattooing technique—the “stick-and-poke” method—is becoming increasingly popular. There are some similarities and ...

Puzzles, tie-dyeing, baking banana bread—if we’ve learned anything from social media, it’s that we’re picking up all sorts of new hobbies. We didn’t expect stick-and-poke tattoos to quickly top that ...

Tattoos are not a recent trend for teenagers, but do-it-yourself tattoos called stick-and-poke are becoming increasingly popular among Las Lomas High School students. Stick-and-poke is the process of ...

Rachel Howe, a.k.a. @smallspells, is a multidisciplinary artist working in Brooklyn, New York. She describes her artwork as three intersecting yet distinct practices: ceramics, all the new age stuff ...

A stick and poke tattoo is applied with a single needle that is dipped in ink. It is supposedly less painful than a regular tattoo, but could fade more quickly. You should never try doing an at-home ...