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"The tattoo shop was a scary place. Once television showed that these are normal people working there, it changed people's ideas," Rakovic said from New York.

"So yes, there's the kid who gets drunk on Spring Break and gets a monkey on his arm, but there's also people who spend a lot of money and research the art because they're serious about it."

Delaware-based tattoo artist Shane O'Neill, who specializes in realistic portraits and won the first season of Ink Master, said the shops have cleaned up, too.

"The ink is refined, the colours appear brighter, the needles meet a higher quality standard, where they don't cause as much trauma on the skin," O'Neill said.

He's also seeing a different clientele compared to when he started working 15 years ago.

"Doctors, lawyers," O'Neill said. "Most shocking for me was a customer who was a 64-year-old woman — a rabbi — and she waited until she was 64 to get a tattoo."

That's not to say that tattooed bodies are becoming normative or mainstream, Atkinson said.

Toronto or New York City may be liberal spaces, but body art may not be as openly accepted elsewhere and certainly not in some job fields.

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Dalhousie University professor Chris Helland, right, estimates he has about 20 tattoos. His latest was completed in the summer. (Courtesy Chris Helland)

"I work in a university, but if I'm working around Bay Street lawyers or big business, and I came in with my hands tattooed, it would be un-normative in that space," Atkinson said, though he acknowledged that being a tenured professor with a family has afforded him a certain "sin licence." (Atkinson plans to get a hand tattooed for the first time in December.)

Beware 'job-stopper' art

Tattoo placement is still crucial for most body art collectors, Rakovic said, adding that some respected artists will send prospective clients home for a week to think more seriously about whether they want their knuckles marked for life.

Rakovic said his staff at the Inked offices have a term for those kinds of pieces.

"'Job-stoppers,' we call them," he said.

9 years to open tattoo shop

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A floral tattoo completed by Toronto artist Lizzie Renaud, owner of Speakeasy Tattoos. (Courtesy Lizzie Renaud)

Toronto tattoo artist Lizzie Renaud opened her shop, Speakeasy, in 2009.

Working her way up to being a prominent artist in the city took nine years, including an apprenticeship and on-site training.

"You learn how to trace images properly, you're memorizing basic traditional tattoo shapes and styles, and then there's a period of learning about machines, needles. You're taking care of sterilization, working the desk and reception for free," she said.

Renaud charges about $180 an hour, depending on the complexity of the design. She said a more novice artist at her shop who's been working for two years might charge about $120 an hour.

Typically, a script tattoo might take an artist about 45 minutes to an hour and a half to complete, she said, though those walk-in clients are rare.

Even so, tattoo exposure didn't dissuade Dalhousie University from using one of its tattooed faculty members, Chris Helland, in promotional materials in 2007.

Helland, an expert on religion on the internet who got his first tattoo when he was 18, became a poster boy for the school's "Discover the Unexpected" ad campaign, which featured the sociology professor with his sleeves rolled up to display the intricate panorama etched on his arms.

"There was this perception that tattoos are associated with deviant behaviour, and that's a very biased and Eurocentric perspective," Helland said. "But as a sociologist of religion, I'm very fascinated by sacred or religious tattooing, the rituals and the different belief systems associated with it."

The 45-year-old academic noted that all his tattoos can be concealed if he wears a long-sleeved shirt with a collar.

That's certainly the way to go, said Rakovic, who said he's seen enough regrettable tattoos in his years with Inked to stress the permanence of a decision to get inked up.

Current trends in tattoos

"Coming in and out of vogue isn't an option," he said, noting that trends are tilting towards script and lettering tattoos, and a popular placement for women's tattoos has moved from the lower back to the rib area.

"We call it the 'skank flank,'" he said. "Every week or two, I see another girl with another rib piece, and you have to tell them that."

Classic "neo-traditional American" tattoos aren't likely to go out of style, whereas "a butterfly on the lower back, or a 'tramp stamp,' is universally panned," he said.

"Tribal has declined while photo-realism, exact representations of people and objects, is on the rise," Rakovic added in an email.

As for the movement to change perceptions at the workplace, Rakovic said there's still a ways to go. A Facebook group called "Tattoo acceptance in the workplace" has more than a million supporters, and Rakovic said he was excited about a popular T-shirt the magazine's online shop is selling — one he wants more body art collectors to start wearing.

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