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Body Art Comes Out Of Hiding

Baltimore, MD (WJZ) ― If you think you're seeing more people with tattoos lately, you're right...and a lot of people here in Baltimore are getting them.

Body art is coming out of hiding. Walk into the offices of Press Box in Baltimore and you'll find a hardworking staff, including several who sport tattoos. The newspaper's vice president and his wife also have them.

Gayla Lee works at Coradetti Studios in Clipper Mill. She's had her tattoos for six years.

New research finds 23% of college students have between one and three tattoos. Fifty-one percent are pierced beyond women's ears and 36% of 18-29-year-olds have tattoos.

Travel around Baltimore and you'll find tattoos have gone from the counter-culture to the mainstream.

"It's definitely socially acceptable," said Gayla Lee.

At Hampden's Sprout Hair Salon, Leah Taylor has five.

The art isn't so out of the ordinary anymore.

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