Once you have one, data show, you'll get more. Today, an increasingly popular style of tattoo art is called black and gray. Black and gray used to be referred to as joint-style or prison-style ...

A popular style of tattooing called "black and gray realism" has its roots in East LA's Chicano culture. It moved from California prisons in the 1970s to high-end tattoo shops worldwide.

"Very Western in design, typically done in three parts; one part black, one part color and ... I may suggest going with a grey wash tattoo," Rizzi notes. But if you're dead-set on color ink ...