Getting your first tattoo rarely happens in a perfectly calm, logical moment. More often, it arrives wrapped in adrenaline and emotion, with the sense that something meaningful is about to happen.

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There's three Friday the 13ths in 2026, so here's a slew of tattoo shops in Phoenix, Mesa and Glendale with Friday the 13th ...

Lovers and seekers rushed to 'flip the script' on bad luck—and get discount rates—on the rare confluence of holidays.

Sacramento studios and parlors will have Friday the 13th flash sales. These sales provide discounted tattoos and piercings.