What is a tattoo?

The word tattoo by definition means "the act or practice of marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, or legends, by making punctures in it and inserting pigments". Tattooists can create a work of beauty that will last a lifetime. Although anyone can buy a "kit" and make designs that fit the definition above, you want to trust your skin to competently trained artists who have not only your continued health and safety in mind, but who are able to render your design without flaws.


Tattoos have served as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, amulets and talismans, protection, and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and convicts.