I got my first stick and poke tattoo from a friend on a warm and balmy night in my apartment. My decision to get stick and poke was pretty impulsive, and I invited my friend over to give me one as I ...

In the game of tattoos, there are usually two ways to go: professional tattoos by a gun or stick and poke tattoos by a hand. If you're planning on taking the latter route, it's important to know the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sitting on the floor of her dorm room, Weinberg freshman Vivian Xu spread out more than 20 pages of designs she had ripped out of her sketch book, ranging from detailed images of a clown sitting on a ...

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.

If you’ve ever been to a scuzzy punk party, you probably have at least one beer-soaked memory of watching someone carving a stick 'n' poke into their friend’s forearm. The process typically involves a ...

Decorating the skin with ink designs is an ancient human custom; Ötzi the Iceman, dug out of the Alps in 1991, had over 50 tattoos covering his body. However, the modern era of dermal art began in ...

The needle pokes into your skin, piercing it so the tattoo drips into your flesh. Poke, poke, poke. It hurts, but don't you dare wince: You're the one hammering the ink into yourself. A heart on your ...