One of the most common reasons people return to a tattoo studio years later is the desire to rewrite the past. This is exactly what TV host Carson Daly spoke about on the Today show, where, in a conversation with Jenna Bush Hager, he recalled how, right in the middle of a session in Hell’s Kitchen, he realized it was time to hide an old inscription on his ankle. The story became a telling example for tattoo culture as a whole: the name of an ex-girlfriend, once tattooed in a burst of emotion, turned into a veiled drawing of a crab with an open knife.