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Can tattooing be a form a self harm? Is it a sign of a serious mental illness? Can tattooing help people along their healing journey? Yayo asked psychiatric nurse Tony Brown about the complex issue of tattoos and self harm.
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2020 was tough on tattooing; 2021 looks like it's going to be just as tough. But don't let Covid get you down. Instead read out blog interview with the fantastically talented Jones N S larsen. Great tattoos will always brighten a dull day.
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Keety Mortem is a Yayo Pro Artist and one of the hardest working tattooists in the UK. She hasn't had an easy ride to get where she is but she was never going to let anything get in the way of fulfilling her dream of opening her own studio.
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With another lockdown looming we head out to Bristol to interview the fantastic Kat James. Kate has been in the industry for a few years now but her tattoos just keep getting better and better. She is a proud member of the Pro Team and what she doesn't know aboyut tattooing could fit on the back of a postage stamp.
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Have you ever been judged for having a tattoo? Tattoo prejudice is real, particularly for women. In this second part of our Yayo investigation we talk to Meraki Fade and Troy Tuck to uncover how tattoo discrimination has effected their lives.
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