BEAUTIFUL Tag

A friend once jokingly described giving someone a stick and poke tattoo because the equivalent of the exchanging of wedding rings, in that it will probably be so necessary and intimate that it signals the start of a lifelong bond between two people. Body art can often help us make sense of ourselves. Whether it’s projecting who we're on the within out into the world via our skin, or using tattoos as a way of navigating, accepting, and ultimately loving our bodies - a practice particularly necessary to those whose bodies are sometimes marginalised, so women, POC, plus size and queer people for instance. But although the chances of tattooing might be radical, the industry often isn’t — and might at...