This week on Refinery29, we’re filling your screens and consciousness with inspiring women over 50. Why? Because living in a culture obsessed with youth is exhausting for everyone. Ageing is a ...

Runes are ancient alphabets predating our modern written language. Combining and using runes for jewelry and tattoos have given these intriguing symbols use beyond divination. Getting a tattoo of ...

If you were to picture a woman who just got her first tattoo, do you picture someone barely out of their teens or a 40-something with kids of her own? It might be time to at least add the latter to ...

It was just some leaves and branches, but it brought Andrea Reynolds to tears. Not so much the tattoo as where it was inked — across her chest, covering up the scars and lumps left in the aftermath of ...

NAHA, Japan — Hana Morita was scrolling through Pinterest when she came across hajichi, a minimalistic tattoo worn by Okinawan women on their fingers and hands. Once common on the subtropical islands ...

Tattoo model Kandy Kouture has bared her inked skin for Playboy Australia and other magazines, displaying a body of artwork that includes an ornate peacock tattoo that covers her left side from her ...

Jessica Dwyer is co-owner of Nice Tattoo Parlor, billed as an approachable business “where everyone is nice to you.”Tamara Beckwith When Jessica Dwyer was 18, she walked into a Long Island shop to get ...

It's pretty much common knowledge that having tattoos comes with a lot of stereotypes, especially for women. Even in modern days, people with ink still often get labeled: lazy, trashy, violent, ...

"You're going to regret that in 50 years' time." It's one of the most common warnings to anyone pondering whether to get a tattoo in the first few decades of their life. The assumption being that a ...