Tattoo artists in uproar over EU ink bans


Tattoo artist Tin-Tin, head of the French National Union of Tattoo Artists, attends to a customer in his tattoo studio in Paris as new EU restrictions on coloured tattoo come into force, France, January 4, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Tattoo parlours across the European Union were in crisis on Tuesday as a new rule came into force which effectively bans many of their most popular inks and which one artist described as like taking "taking the flour from a bakery."

Tattoo artists say alternatives to the inks, some of which have been in circulation for decades, do not yet exist or are in short supply, and the law deals a blow to an industry already reeling after repeated lockdowns.

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