Tattoo parlors can't locate within 1,000 feet of each other, according to city ordinance. The New Bedford Tattoo Co.'s Front Street location, down the block from Cozy Crib, is within that distance.

Over the course of three years, I had my eyebrows repeatedly microbladed. In different ways, in darker tones, and ‘deeper in the skin, so they’ll hold’ as one brow artist said, alarmingly.

SANTEE — Santee has fully lifted its ban on tattoo parlors in the city’s main commercial areas so beauty salons can offer an increasingly popular form of semi-permanent eyebrows. Leaders have ...