City Reliquary founder Dave Herman at his museum in Williamsburg. Gabriella Bass. Before Liberty the Tattooed Lady closes to the public for good, City Reliquary will be hosting a Statue of Liberty ...

Tattooed ladies were once carnival freaks. Now they're cool hipster chicks. A recently published third edition of a book about body art, Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and the ...

Content creator Blue Valentine opens up to PEOPLE about her tattoo journey after her "body suit" went viral on TikTok. The ...

Many older folks still hold negative opinions about tattooed women, while they judge men's tattoos less harshly. Society's stance on body art has made big leaps in recent years.

Finding an ink-free service member is infinitely more rare than the alternative, but that is a relatively new phenomenon.

In order to collect large, public, and so-called ugly tattoos, the women have to defend their choices on a daily basis. This is often a difficult position, even for the most confident.

Although fictional, the characters in “The Tattooed Lady” are loosely based on historic tattooed ladies Nora Hidebrandt and Maud Wagner. Maud Wagner was the first known female tattoo artist. She was ...

Lady Gaga is all about visual presentation. When the 36-year pop star/actress first burst onto the scene with her hit single “Just Dance” in 2008, what followed was an invitation to all the ...

Margot Mifflin’s 1997 book, “Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo,” examines this trend, which, it turns out, has been surprisingly long in the making.

The Tattooed Lady's titular character is loosely based on Maud Wagner, the first known female tattoo artist who died in 1961, and Nora Hidebrandt — a woman who was tattooed using the stick-and ...