There are a lot of reasons to get a tattoo — to honor a loved one, visualize a spiritual or life goal, or just for the aesthetic appeal.
(They do look pretty cool, after all.)
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Beth Cutlip, co-owner of Baltimore's Southside Tattoo parlor, was working one day when a man walked in with some unmistakeable ink.
A gang member in Los Angeles. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images.
The man's face was covered in gang tattoos, Cutlip says, and he was there to have them covered up. He got them as a teenager while running with a rough crowd, but he was a grown man now. Married. Kids. Trying to make an honest career as an electrician.
It's pretty great to be unique, but sometimes having differences that other people can see makes life hard.
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