Body art has always been a part of different cultures around the world. Examples of tattoos, piercings, scarification can be found all over the globe. Their meaning and purpose has differed depending on the time, location and culture it was set it, but they were present almost everywhere. There are many styles of tattooing, people choose to get a tattoo for different reasons, some get tattoos as a sort of memento for events in their life, some get tattoos that have personal meaning and some choose to get tattoos for their esthetic value. The fact is tattoos are getting even more popular, whether it's due to the influence of media, pop idols or traditional reasons. When we look at body art as a form of non verbal communication, we are talking about a phenomena where meaning, ideas or sometimes even prejudice gets transfered from the body of a tattooed person to another. We hear a lot about „prison tattoos“ as they are notorius as a part of an initiation process to become a gang member, but in this research we were more interested in communication among young people. Non verbal communication is any form of communication which excludes verbal conversation, and can include gestures, the look on someones face, body position, body shape and depends quite heavily on the context of the situation it's happening in. The research results show that a large proportion of participants didn't have a defined opinion on whether body art sends a message to others. Most, however, believe that people have tattoos with personal meaning or they connect them with their experiences and life events and belive that tattoos can reveal an individuals character. Judging by the data, as previous research points out, tatttoos are indeed a form of non verbal communication. Willingly or unconsciously, people with tattoos „talk“ or share about themselves through the markings on their bodies. Of course, this raises a question about prejudice with which people with tattoos have to deal with in everyday life. How present is the stigma towards body art and are people with body art treated in a discriminatory fashion? Attitudes and opinions of participants towards tattooed people were mostly positive and didn't suggest any stigma or prejudice was involved, at least not within the studied population, however, when they were asked questions if people with tattoos have problems with employment or wheter there is stigma towards those individuals they mostly answered affirmatively which suggests that there are indeed social concequences that come with the decision to get body art.