An AK-47 on an arm. A barbed wire around a wrist. Quranic verses across a chest. An ex-lover whose name lingers on a shoulder but no longer in the heart. Bashir has zapped all of it off with his laser ...

More and more Alaska Native women are getting face tattoos.The traditional practice dates back centuries, but was banned by 19th and 20th century missionaries. Now it’s coming back. Though the ...

If you got a tattoo in Anchorage a few decades ago, you likely visited a male owned shop. But that’s changing. Now, female tattoo artists are easy to find in the state’s largest city.

When she was 14 years old, Quannah Chasinghorse decided she wanted a traditional Indigenous face tattoo. The Hän Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota model—who has since, at age 19, made an impression ...

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Torz Reynolds, from London, decided a first class way to take revenge on a cheating partner by removing a tattoo of her cheating ex-boyfriend's name with a scalpel.

While state regulations don't outright ban eyeball tattoos, most studios in Alaska wouldn't touch the procedure.

KENT, Ohio -- A man with an AK-47 rifle tattoo on his left cheek threatened to shoot two women walking down a street Friday night, police The incident happened shortly after 8:30 p.m. on ...

In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Jason Barnum is arraigned at the Anchorage, Alaska, jail for attempted murder and other charges. Barnum, nicknamed "Eyeball" because of a tattoo that darkened ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A man nicknamed "Eyeball" because of a tattoo that darkened the white part of his right eye pleaded guilty to shooting an Anchorage police officer.

Five people affiliated with a Nazi prison gang, including one who legally changed his name to Filthy Fuhrer, have been convicted in the grisly death of a member whose gang tattoo was cut off his ...

Indigenous model Quannah Chasinghorse is among those reclaiming traditional face tattoos. Vogue meets the Indigenous women reclaiming face tattoos in Alaska.