Here’s what two tattoo artists with nearly 60 years of professional experience have to say about getting the best tattoo for dark skin or skin of color. Find an experienced artist Share on ...

While she sips her morning coffee, shop owner Christopher Mensah is busy sketching out Afrik's 35th tattoo. Afrik has dark brown skin. ... or white skin, I don't want to ...

Tattoo magazines, media and TV shows perpetuate the narrative that white skin is ideal for tattooing, said Tyrone Cooley, a Black tattoo artist and owner of Tri-Cities Tattoo Company in Atlanta.

Too Many White Tattoo Artists Don't Know How to Tattoo Dark Skin — and ... be it through discriminatory hiring or non-Black artists not showcasing their work on Black and Brown skin to begin ...

None of the tattoos featured on Thomas' Instagram are on brown skin. Showing only white ... He said it's important to take a client's skin tone into account when designing a tattoo. For dark skin, ...

Getting good color tattoos on dark skin can feel like an impossible task. ... "It's similar to drawing on a brown piece of paper versus a white one," she says. "On the brown paper, ...

Despite being a fairly mainstream industry now, discriminatory hiring practices and racial stigmas are among the challenges that Black tattoo artists say they face in the white-dominated field of ...

Tattoo artist Imani K. Brown recently took some time out of her packed scheduled to share her thoughts on tattooing dark skin, succeeding as a Black female artist, advising the public on the ...

Tattoo advice and tips for people with black and brown skin, from what colours best show up to avoiding keloid scarring at Cosmopolitan.co.uk Search Entertainment ...

But what’s considered high-risk isn’t always black and white. Tattoos are a grey ... 1/8 of an inch into the skin, some tattoo ink contains ... of your tattoo for longer, according to Brown.

When the tattoo gun’s twin needles pierce your skin, it stings enough that the body instinctively seeks to stop the pain, whether by flinching or flooding your brain with endorphins.