Love/Hate : Beautiful Ink

Tattoos are something that leave me very much on the fence. Living in Camden Town, I constantly see people who look as though they have been attacked by a toddler with a permanent marker. They are covered from head to toe in scribbles and doodles that are gaudy at best. But this isn’t my problem, I don’t get it and I would certainly never go for this myself, but it’s their body and they can do what they want.
What my problem is, is how you could just walk just into a tattoo parlour and pick something out of a book, or worse still just follow whatever’s trending at the time (tribal tatts in the late 90’s, for example).

On the flip-side, a tattoo that has been thought about and drawn up for you specifically, now that’s cool. Whether it be a quote, a symbol or a true-to-life drawing these are the tattoos that I think you never regret. Take a look at some of the tattoos that I think sum up my idea of getting inked.

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Anneke Short

Anneke Short is the co-founder and creative director of AMS Design Studio. Originally from the UK, trained in Switzerland and now living in London.

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