Tom has a tattoo on his right arm.

In April 2009, the launch of a Totally Tattoos Barbie with a range of tattoos that could be applied to the doll, including a lower back tattoo, led to controversy.

Frontline German Waffen SS had blood group tattoos during World War II.

So like Johnny Depp, and like 25 percent of Americans between the ages of 16 and 50, I have a tattoo.

Now we have to picture Alan Greenspan in a black leather corset, with a butt tattoo that says, Whip inflation now.

And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the burn and sniff technique where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic.

Samuel O'Reilly was a successful New York tattoo artist and the inventor of the modern rotary tattoo machine, which he patented in 1891.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 Swedish American mystery thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson.

Over time tattoos have become increasingly popular in the U.S., and according to a study in 2006 nearly 25 percent of Americans between the ages of eighteen and fifty have one or more tattoos.