Up until 15 years ago, South Carolina was the only state in the country to make it illegal for someone younger than 21 to get a tattoo ... outlawed tattooing in SC in 1960 due to fears of hepatitis.

Almost two decades after tattoo parlors became legal, the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control lists 162 parlors statewide. Columbia has 22 of them. Myrtle Beach has 16. Spartanburg ...

Southern Cypress Tattoo, located at 2009 Greene St. in Five ... South Carolina outlawed tattooing in SC in 1960 due to fears of hepatitis. The law was not rescinded until 2004.