After Care: How you take care of your tattoo once you get home. People don't realize that they play a huge part in the quality of the tattoo by how well they take care of it.
Blackwork: A tattoo done only in shades of black and grey.
Bodysuit: Complete coverage of the body with tattoos, usually a bodysuit is work that covers everything but the neck up, the wrists to the hands, and the feet, although this definition can vary.
Cover Up: A tattoo that is covering a pre-existing tattoo. A complicated process. Better to be sure of your tattoos before you get them!
Epidermis: Top layer of the skin. A tattoo needs to go a few layers into the epidermis, but not all the way through.
Ink: Pigments deposited into the epidermis by the tattoo needle.
Jailhouse: Style of tattoo inspired by tattoos inmates would be able to get in jail. Were very crude due to materials (urine and soot for ink). Now refers to both style (Black and Gray only) and subject matter.
Moku: Name for traditional New Zealand Maori tribe tattoos. Sometimes used to specifically refer to those designs on the face.
New School: Bright, colorful, vivid style of modern tattooing, often carttonish.
Sailor (also known as Traditional, Americana, or Sailor Jerry): Style of tattoos gotten by sailors from the turn of the century to the 1950s. Gotten in ports like Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Coney Island. Refers to both the style of drawing and subject matter (pinups, anchors, bluebirds, pirate ships)
Stencil: The outline of the tattoo design, treated and transferred to skin with alcohol, that acts as a guide for the tattoo artist while working.
Tattoo: An indelible mark or figure fixed upon the body by insertion of pigment under the skin. The name originates from the sound the sticks and needle would make during tattooing with traditional materials, "ta-tu ta-tu ta-tu"
Tribal: Heavy black graphic designs inspired by the traditional Polynesian tattooing of Tahiti, Hawaii, and New Zealand.
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