I t goes without saying that these days, tattoos are everywhere. And while societal acceptance of ink has ebbed and flowed, many people who spent hours in tattoo parlors adding to ...

DTLA - Tattoos may be omnipresent today, but the taboo around them hasn’t quite faded away. They were long considered uncouth in the western world and some Asian cultures still ...

Tiatia’s tattoo depicts the Samoan man’s universe ... bottles of water and his tattooing tools. To puncture and permanently tint the skin, Peni uses a traditional tool made from ironwood ...

At the exhibit, one can view modern and traditional tattooing tools along with striking images of Samoan tattooing, Looney said. Some of the photos display a tattoo style unique to Looney’s ...

There will also be artifacts and tools associated with tattooing on display. The exhibit focuses on traditional Samoan and contemporary Polynesian tattoos with the emphasis on the tattoo artists ...

Instead of using the traditional tools, for health safety Liufau ... “Whether it’s Polynesian, Samoan or Western tattoos … it’s an expression of oneself,” he said. Liufau is working ...

Given how personal Polynesian tattoos can be, it also requires deep ... several people who stretch the skin while using traditional tools. “In my case, it was bore tusks fastened to a long ...