Others kneel on the ground, grimacing as a tattoo needle penetrates their skin.

Japanese prints of a young woman teasing a cat, and a geisha offering her shoulder to a tattoo needle, were strewn on a table.

That rate has held steady over the last decade despite the widespread knowledge that diseases are spread through reused tattoo needles and ink.

"But only about 50 percent of the inmates are careful," he added, referring to sharing tattoo needles and reusing homemade ink.

Dirt that pierced the skin like ink from a tattoo needle.

She wore a man's clothing and held a tattoo needle loosely in one hand.

Prickles of coarse hemp dug into his throat like miniature tattoo needles.

They are managed by inserting a metal spoon under the eyelid so the tattoo needle does not pierce the eye.

This new chemical could be injected into the skin quite quickly by some apparatus similar to a multiple of tattoo needles in whatever shape they wished.

Interesting textures can be created by using tattoo needles, electric erasers and hard point scribes.