A tattoo convention this past weekend in Quito, Ecuador, brought a dizzying array of colorfully tattooed bodies. Not as prominently featured? Some of the weird ways tattoos can affect your health.

London ink artist Wes Thomas was enlisted to operate the robot appendage, with tattoo needle attached, to reproduce one of his abstract designs onto the inner forearm of Dutch actress Stijn Fransen.

After meeting a new friend on Toronto Island, she noticed the incredible level of detail of her self-applied tattoos — and something ... bit more experimental and weird, while Toronto tends ...