Piercers are showing up in force at tattoo conventions, like the one last year at the Newark Airport Hilton.

Varley got her first tattoo in her late 40s at a tattoo convention at the Hammersmith Palais.

Godsgirls models are also known to participate in signing booths and burlesque performances at various tattoo conventions across the globe.

At the tattoo convention at the Roseland Ballroom in mid-May, the air thrummed with the buzz of needles.

A tattoo convention is a meeting and exhibition for tattoo practitioners and enthusiasts, as well as anyone who wishes to see the world of tattooing up close.

The first tattoo convention in London, England took place in 2005.

He works at tattoo conventions.

She was discovered last month at a tattoo convention in Times Square, and is now nourishing a hidden appetite for bugs.

Tuttle currently teaches seminars in "Tattoo machine maintenance and machine building" at tattoo conventions around the United States.

Promoted in venues like tattoo conventions, and with advertising that runs to the squalid and debauched, its sales are around $16 million a year.