In recent years, the tattoo is enjoying something of a renaissance. A short time ago, the only people with tattoos were sailors, soldiers and scruffy groups who listen to certain music styles. Nowadays, you're just as likely to find your mum browsing the latest tattoo design magazines as you are the latest punk rock star.

The reason for this has a lot to do with the improvements in tattoo technology; this has enabled real artists to make real their designs, where as before it was quite difficult to transfer what was in ones mind, to ones body. Now it is most common for the very best tattooists to have formal fine art or technical art qualifications.

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