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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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Lockdown means no tattooing. Lockdown means no tattoos. Lockdown means no tattoo conventions. Lockdown sucks. Can tattoo conventions survive the ravages of Covid-19? Yayo went out to investigate.
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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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This month Yayo heads over the ocean to the good old U, S of A to interview the super talented Conner Alderman. We chat oil painting, the impact of Covid-19 and combatting sexism in the tattoo industry.
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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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