what better way to do that than by getting a tattoo on your hand or wrist? Hands are meant to lead, touch and feel and are ...

Once reserved for the most committed ink enthusiasts, hand tattoos are finding favor with a wider range of rebels. Stylish and even (that's right) demure, the new guard of hand tattoos are as ...

She has 15 tattoos, including half sleeves on her arms, tattoos on her lower arms and one on the edge of her hand. "I work with the construction industry where people can be a bit sensible.

Traditional Polynesian tattoos used a comb called “au” which was tapped with a mallet “sausau” to push the ink into the skin. Pushing ink into the skin by hand is an ancient practice.

And some of it is a more artistic or free-spirit reference." Less controversial, but still questionable, is the hand tattoo. Just like any other ink, how your coworkers perceive it depends on how ...

But they don't have what he's looking for: the centuries-old Japanese art of tebori, or traditional "hand-carved" tattoos. In the West, a longstanding fascination with this style has become a full ...

5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake has been talking to historians, tattoo artists and listeners about their opinions on face, neck or hand tattoos. Dr Matt Lodder is a historian of tattooing ...