Brandi Rhodes, wife of one of the most recognizable wrestlers of our time, openly admitted in a conversation that she had mixed feelings about her husband’s famous neck tattoo. On her show, she didn’t hide the fact that she would have preferred a more modest design initially, while emphasizing that the body is personal space, and only the wearer can decide what to do with it.
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Jorma Kaukonen’s Guitarist Tattoos: From Lyle Tuttle to Don Ed Hardy
The body of guitarist Jorma Kaukonen is not just skin, but a living chronicle of the San Francisco counterculture, where each line is connected to the name of a master who changed tattoo culture. His journey from guitar lessons in San Jose to the large-scale works of Don Ed Hardy is a story of how tattooing ceased to be a marker of rebellion and became a language spoken by an entire generation.
Cincinnati Tattoo Artist Turns MS Diagnosis into Motivation
Taylor Stackman calls herself someone who doesn’t accept “no.” “If they tell me I can’t do something, I say, ‘Hold my beer,’ and go do it,” says the 34-year-old artist, who, along with her wife and business partner Brittany Wagers and investor Shelly Okoro, runs the Soul Rage Tattoo studio in Cincinnati’s O’Bryonville neighborhood. Her journey from emergency medicine to tattoo art is a rare example of how a chronic diagnosis didn’t break her career but redirected it into a path where creativity became both healing and purpose.
Memorial Tattoos in Cork: Studio Raises Funds for Cancer Fight
In Cork, Ireland, a tattoo studio is transforming personal tragedy into a public gesture: one day of work is entirely dedicated to raising funds for cancer research. The initiative is spearheaded by Ellie Christie, who lost her father at 19 and now wants new tattoos and piercings done in his honor to help other families face the disease at an early stage.
Tattoo Schools vs. Apprenticeships: What’s Happening to Tattoo Culture
For years, tattoo schools were perceived as a threat to an industry that grew out of apprenticeships. Established artists criticized them, calling them a “quick path,” while the schools themselves preferred to remain silent. Dialogue was impossible: when one side of an argument doesn’t respond, negativity and speculation fill the void, solidifying into “facts” over time. To understand what’s happening here, we need to rewind and look at how tattooing education was formalized in the first place.