As ink gains popularity, Detroit tattoo expo attendees say core artists maintain integrity

John Niederkorn, the social media director of trade journal Tattoo Artist Magazine, said that tattoos appeared to gain their mainstream momentum with advent of reality television.
“But I would say that there’s still like a core group of people that do it legit, like all the way, based on the traditional styles and aspects and kind of like unwritten laws,” Niederkorn said. “Those people are probably the same number of people that have always been.”

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