The new Debate over Permanent Make Up
A news story from last week has caused some real anger and debate over the laws over permanent make up. ITV News ran a story you can watch briefly here (apologies, UK only I think), which showed a girl who is 14 up here at ITV’s Newcastle studio (yes, I live there in the background, … Read more
All You Need to Know: Scratchers
While I’m away, I thought I’d post up this fantastic piece Loz Turlington wrote for me a while ago for the petition for regulating the sale of tattoo machines I set up with Matt Hughill at Tattoo UK. The petition, of course, was unsuccessful (aren’t they all?), but this piece of writing is such an … Read more
Does The Government Honestly Care About Machine Regulation?
Okay, first of all, I apologise for not writing about the Designer Bodies event yet- it’s been a hellish week, so I’ll find time to do it in a couple of days. Matt Hughill’s first petition, that we spoke about a while ago, has come to an end with a disappointing conclusion. It seemed … Read more

