Kevin Laroy, a distinguished artist from Los Angeles, offers private studio sessions for hyper-realistic tattoos and custom ...

A tattoo needle punctures the skin around 100 times per second, depositing the ink 1.5 millimeters to 2 millimeters below the surface. It bypasses the epidermis, the outer layer of the skin. Tool ...

In “Skin,” Bell wears one of Bettles’ patented prosthetics; instead of spending 45 minutes to apply it, the artist says it took 10.

Skin-rip tattoos, also known as tear-outs or rip-thrus, became popular in the 1980s. The style creates the illusion of an image that exists in real space, underneath the skin.