![]() “People want to be able to feel something in the increasingly transient meaningless of contemporary society. ![]() “If you wanted a hand or neck tattoo and you wanted to represent yourself in that way, you had to understand that you’re accepting a very different responsibility for the role that you were playing in society from that point on.”īinnie says he thinks the permanency of tattooing is one of the reasons it’s so popular right now. Marcus agrees, saying that when he first started getting tattooed 15 years ago, heavily tattooed people and visible tattoos were few and far between. “The only people who had neck tattoos then were, generally speaking, tattoo artists. “It was considered outrageous then,” he says. Binnie got his own neck tattooed in the late 1980s. Into You used to have a much stricter policy, at a time when hand and neck tattoos were more taboo. “I hope my artists will look at the whole situation – who is the person, how old are they – and make a decision based on that,” Binnie says. “The idea of tattooing someone’s child’s face on their body and the chance of messing that up? No thank you.”Īt Into You, a well-known tattoo parlour in London, owner Alex Binnie has a similar policy of leaving it up to the individual artists to make the call. ![]() He draws the line, however, at portraits. He says he’s happy tattooing anywhere on the body, in fact. “You should actually be thankful that they’re telling you that they might not be the best person to do it.” ![]() “What a lot of people don’t realise is that when people say no to something it’s because of their comfort level,” Marcus says. ![]()
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