June 5: National Tattoo Day

June 5, 2012 - Happy National Tattoo Day! Get out there and show off your ink today. Plus, be sure to celebrate the culture and artistry of tattooing.
More and more Americans are getting "ink," with no sign of slowing. Tattooing, once considered something only bikers, punkers and rebels did, is now considered a fashionable and trendy accessory, almost as common these days as pierced ears.
But we still don’t know that much about tattoos.
Megan Massacre of TLC's NY Ink, a tattoo artist for nearly a decade, says this is a particularly exciting time for the industry.
"It is a completely different industry than the one I got into (almost 10 years ago)," she told Discovery News.
Here, we take a look at the history of the body art, what the ink is made of and what's behind the current craze for tattoos.