A scar can sometimes be a painful reminder of past trauma, leaving some people feeling less confident about their body. However, many people are celebrating and accentuating their scars using ...

Paige Spear is a paramedical tattooist in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where she helps her customers use tattoo art to camouflage scars and vitiligo, and recreate areolas and nipples for customers who ...

EAST LONGMEADOW — When tattoo artist Ezequiel Lugo opened his studio in East Longmeadow, he wanted to make his mark on his clients — but he never imagined how life-changing his work would be. “For a ...

Kentucky health officials are proposing a ban on tattooing over scarred skin, a plan that could block one of the reasons why some people get a tattoo in the first place. The state's Department of ...

Parents will often do just about anything to prove their love to their kids. For Eric Conklin, a dad from New York, that "anything" meant sitting down in a tattoo chair. As a result, he ended up ...

New requirements for tattoo studios have been proposed by the Kentucky Department of Health after receiving input from the public. The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, which oversees ...

She’s inking up for a good cause. A San Francisco tattoo artist is helping customers cover up their stretch marks and scars by using the simple art of tattooing. Tatianna B., 23, shares her work and ...

I was born in Lebanon and when I was two years old, I was severely burned in a kerosene explosion on Christmas night. I was the only survivor of the accident. Following the explosion, I was in a coma ...

Gwen McClellan didn’t think the marks would ever blend in. The 44-year-old Vancouver resident has self-inflicted scars from when she was a teenager. Self-harm, which is not uncommon, is the process of ...

As tattoos gain popularity, dermatologists explain health risks linked to hygiene, ink reactions, infections, scarring and ...