A guide to the ink culture

While it is certainly true that tattoos used to be an outsider culture, tattoo popularity is on the rise. ... Thirty-six percent of Kenyans age 18 to 25 at that time said they had tattoos, but that number has risen to almost 40% since. And it isn't just the number of tattooed people that's on the rise but even the number of people getting piercings and other body modifications.

Art is the expression of an individual’s creative skill in either painting or sculpture to convey a message for aesthetic appreciation.

Tattooing as an art although frowned upon by religion has gained currency as popular culture and has been embraced by millennials making it a lucrative enterprise for tattoo artists.