Nine-year-old tattoo artist makes his mark


A close-up view of his work. — AFP

Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man’s upper thigh.

“I want to be a tattoo artist and open my own tattoo palour,” he said at his booth at a Bangkok tattoo expo, where fascinated attendees paused to film his work.

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