• Thrashin':
  Josh appears to have a small, unidentifiable tattoo on his right shoulder blade which is visible only at the very beginning (before the credits) when his character Corey is brushing his teeth. (It could also be a birthmark.) The tattoo is hidden for the rest of the film by clothing or a bandage (when Corey is hurt in a competition). Arms and legs appear tattoo-free.
  

• Private Eye:
  Josh's character Johnny is supposed to have tattoos, so there seems to have been no attempt to cover them up.
  
  • In the pilot episode, two are visible:
    
    1. the same small one on the right shoulder blade, which appears to be monochrome (bluish) and roughly arrowhead-shaped; and
       
    2. another small, colored one on his upper left arm.
    
    
  • The 2nd one could be a rose with writing around it(?? complete guess)-- there is a red center, with surrounding blue marks. The first is visible when Johnny answers the phone in his trailer. The second is visible a few times, with the closest look being when Johnny and Jack meet in a stake-out room, and the camera angle is looking upward from Johnny's left side. The shot is so close that the tattoo is blurred.
    
  • Johnny sports these same tattoos (as far as we know) until the episode "Blue Hotel." The left arm tat is visible a few times, falling at just about where his t-shirt sleeve ends.
    
  • In "Blue Hotel," the right shoulder blade tattoo is now much larger, although its design remains unidentifiable. The shape is round-ish. The best shot of it is in the second half of the 2-part episode, when Johnny is working on his car.
    
  • Two episodes later, in "Nobody Dies In Chinatown," Johnny has another tattoo, this one on his left forearm (the inner part) about midway between elbow and wrist. It looks like wings.
    

• Young Riders:
  Any tattoos are left up to the imagination. Clothing manages to cover them all.
  

• Flirting With Disaster:
  Veritable tattoo fest!
  
  • Near the end of the film, Josh's character Tony wanders around in nothing but a towel. Lots of clear shots of tattoos, although on my TV screen most of them are still too small to identify. All of them appear monochrome, but are apparently all multi-colored.
    
  • The right shoulder blade tattoo is even larger than it was in Private Eye and is apparently a depiction of a Native American warrior. There is an almost armband-style tattoo on his upper right arm, as well, which connects to a larger tat.
    
  • The clearest view is of the tattoos on his upper left arm. The uppermost one is sizeable and is apparently a Native American with long feathers or braids hanging down. Underneath it is a peace arrow. The tattoo on his left forearm, last seen in Private Eye, seems to be gone.
    
  • On his stomach, to the left of his navel but nearer the hip is a lovely seahorse tattoo, my personal favorite. Legs appear tattoo-free.
    
  • (As an aside, and not strictly related to tattoos, although the Cosmopolitan article claims he has a pierced nipple, he doesn't.)
    

p.s.: Does it hurt?
Yes, it hurts -- it's a vibrating, hot needle injecting ink into a person's skin! But it's not unbearable, obviously, and a lot of people become "tattoo addicts" for a variety of reasons. The discomfort experienced depends a lot on the area of the body where the tattoo is. Fleshier parts tend to hurt less; areas close to the bone hurt more.

Modified 1/1/98