Getting your first tattoo rarely happens in a perfectly calm, logical moment. More often, it arrives wrapped in adrenaline and emotion, with the sense that something meaningful is about to happen.

As we age, skin changes, chronic health conditions, and medications can affect how tattoos heal and raise the risk of infection. Older adults need to consider the health risks before getting tattoos.

People drawn to getting a new tattoo may be experiencing a kind of awakening that is a sign something big is happening in their life.

Though tattoos date back thousands of years, society today tends to view them quite negatively, attaching a stigma to them, despite nearly one-third of Americans having one. Tattoos are meant to show ...