Tattoo Malaysia Expo 2019 is Malaysia's biggest body art event ever

A woman has both arms tattooed at the same time during an international tattoo convention in London in September. — AP

Anyone with a tattoo knows what it’s like when the needle first hits the skin, and then having that needle dragged across their skin, sometimes for hours on end. It’s painful. Yet, for some, it’s this pain that brings them back to the tattoo artists and studios again and again.

Addictive? Perhaps. For others, it’s a desire to be etched in beautiful body art, or to get a memory designed onto their skin.