The tattoo industry has experienced a world of change in the last few decades

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Beth Swilling applies a botanical tattoo.

Humans have been filling their skin with ink for thousands of years. In 2015, archaeologists found the body of a 5,000-year-old tattooed man frozen in glacial ice.

However, what we would consider modern-day tattooing has only been around for the last century or so. And for most of that time, having tattoos was often considered taboo.

Caleb Frey, owner of On the Level Tattoo, has been a tattoo artist in Spokane for the last 30

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