Tattoo you? Beware the Dangers

Did The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo request a new sterile needle and individual packets of ink when she got her elaborate body art? As the debate rages on, whether tattoos and body piercings are vehicles of self-expression or body mutilation, body art is on the rise. And chances are, not everyone is practicing safe tattoo. According to a 2010 Pew Research survey 38 percent of millennials (that’s the term demographers like to use to – loosely -- refer to those born between 1980 and 2000) has a tattoo, and for most, one is not enough. OK, I don’t have one, but I’m a little older.