Disclaimer: No doctor in their right mind would say stick and poke tattoos are a great idea, so we're obliged to tell you that you shouldn't try this at home. But if you're going to do it anyway ...

I got my first stick and poke tattoo from a friend on a warm and balmy night in my apartment. My decision to get stick and poke was pretty impulsive, and I invited my friend over to give me one as I ...

Stick-and-poke tattoos are essentially the OGs of body modification. A European Tyrolean Iceman buried around 3250 B.C. (5,300 years old!) was discovered to have 61 tattoos all over his body.

With salons closed across the country, many people are adopting a 'do it yourself' approach to beauty treatments. But while cutting or dyeing your own hair is unlikely to have long-term catastrophic ...

If you’ve ever been to a scuzzy punk party, you probably have at least one beer-soaked memory of watching someone carving a stick 'n' poke into their friend’s forearm. The process typically involves a ...

Sitting on the floor of her dorm room, Weinberg freshman Vivian Xu spread out more than 20 pages of designs she had ripped out of her sketch book, ranging from detailed images of a clown sitting on a ...

Tattoos are not a recent trend for teenagers, but do-it-yourself tattoos called stick-and-poke are becoming increasingly popular among Las Lomas High School students. Stick-and-poke is the process of ...

On a hot July evening when I was 18 years old, I lay naked from the waist up on the hardwood floor of a home studio. My back was sticky with sweat, and I could feel the beat of rhythmic music through ...