It seems like a cool job, right? It’s creative, you can wear what you want and be yourself. If you eventually have your own studio, it can be lucrative, and you have the freedom to choose your own hours and take holidays when you want to. But just what does it take to become a tattoo artist?

Of all the cities in the world, the last one you would expect to have banned tattooing and tattoo parlours for almost four decades is probably the Big Apple, New York City. Yet, there was a complete ban on tattoo parlours in place from 1961 until 1997.