The sale of cheap DIY tattoo kits which can cause infections and leave children as young as 12 ‘branded for life’ should be banned, health chiefs warn.

So-called ‘starter kits’ – which feature a handheld ‘gun’ to feed ink through a needle that punctures the skin – can be bought for just £30 on the internet.

But untrained buyers will have no idea about health and hygiene rules, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health says.

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Celebrity endorsement: Stars like Cheryl Cole (pictured) have made the idea of getting a tattoo fashionable, mainstream and 'normal'


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Good influence? David Beckham, seen here with his young son Brooklyn, has extensive tattoos covering his arms and torso, including his sons' names



Tattoos and piercings can trigger allergic reactions or spread serious infections via blood, such as hepatitis and HIV.

Officially, licensed parlours are not allowed to tattoo anyone under 18, but there is evidence that some young people are hosting illegal tattoo parties.


Part of the problem is that children are keen to copy tattooed celebrities such as David Beckham and Cheryl Cole.

Even the Prime Minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron, has a tattoo on her ankle.

Julie Barratt, of the CIEH, said: ‘Young people are buying tattoo kits off the internet and egging each other on. People who want to follow trends will go for the cheapest alternative.’

A Google search for the starter kits by the institute returned 1.68million results. In addition, it found half of tattoo parlours fail to advise about the risks, and most fail to ask for proof of age.


There have been deaths associated with infections triggered by tattoos and piercings.

The CIEH said several teens in Wales suffered skin infections after a tattoo party. So called ‘tat parties’ have become popular in Scotland, where children queue up to emulate their heroes.

Ms Barratt said: ‘We are talking about an invasive procedure where people are choosing to permanently scar themselves for life.

‘There is a clear risk to the individual and the person carrying out the procedure from the spread of blood borne illnesses.

‘There is rightly a regime for regulating tattoo parlours, however that whole rationale falls if you also have a market in DIY tattoo kits for sale on the internet with people indiscriminately tattooing each other.

‘Officially, registered tattoo artists should not tattoo people who are drunk, because there is a real risk that they will regret something done in a fit of bravado.

‘However, young people are buying tattoo kits off the internet and egging eachother on to do things that, in the cold light of day, they would never do.

‘The fact that so many celebrities now have tattoos means they are seen as fashionable, the social stigma has gone.

‘It can be very expensive to have a big piece of body art done. You can see why people who want to follow trends will go for the cheapest alternative.

‘That might be a tattoo parlour that cuts corners or it might by a DIY kit bought off the internet.’


Research by the CIEH found regulated tattoo parlours are not carrying out basic checks. One in two failed to give advice about the risks and infection prevention.

Only half asked for written consent, while a staggering 91per cent failed to ask for proof of age. Some 49per cent failed to ask about any existing medical conditions.

In one recent case, a 16-year-old, Levi Brady, from Cardiff, had the phrase ‘100% Welsh Lamb’ tattooed on her lower back.

Her horrified mother, Renee, said: ‘The tattooist has branded a child as a piece of meat for the rest of her life.

‘It is the most disgusting thing to have on a young girl and the location of the tattoo is grossly inappropriate.’

The CIEH found seven our of 49 official tattoo artists would be willing to attend a tattoo party to carry out the procedure on a group of people, despite the problems of ensuring they could be carried out safely and hygienically.

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More kids following inappropriate role models......

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More kids following inappropriate role models......

Aids will also spread much more quickly with these things on sale.
To hell with homosexuals and negros, thats whats great about AIDS is that it kills off those 2 defective elements, but with these kits on sale, our white children will be contracting AIDS and hepetitus at an alarming rate.

Yet you have continually defended the practice of body tattooing on this very forum.Presumably if the starter packs were used to tattoo paganist,diabolist or other approved cult markings it would be fine and dandy.
Is the employed married with children mischling David Beckham a better or worse role model than the NF loon with skinhead tattooed on his nut ? Well is he ?

Yet you have continually defended the practice of body tattooing on this very forum.Presumably if the starter packs were used to tattoo paganist,diabolist or other approved cult markings it would be fine and dandy.
Is the employed married with children mischling David Beckham a better or worse role model than the NF loon with skinhead tattooed on his nut ? Well is he ?

I don't recall defending tattoos, but I'm happy to let you off with it since I have nothing against tattoos. What I do have something against is 12 year olds tattooing themselves before they are old enough to make up their minds and to realise that whatever they have will stay with them forever. I am even more against the 12 year old being tattooed by a fellow 12 year old whose sense of hygiene and art skills may not be the best. I don't know what tribal markings have to do with it.

We all know any sensible NF skinhead would never have a tattoo on his forehead.He would have a skins hate wogs sticker.Where could the sensible skinhead purchase the said sticker.Cracking designs.They are the work of a genius of the highest quality.:troll.Would it be possible to tattoo directly through the sticker so the NF skinhead could keep it forever.

I don't recall defending tattoos, but I'm happy to let you off with it since I have nothing against tattoos. What I do have something against is 12 year olds tattooing themselves before they are old enough to make up their minds and to realise that whatever they have will stay with them forever. I am even more against the 12 year old being tattooed by a fellow 12 year old whose sense of hygiene and art skills may not be the best. I don't know what tribal markings have to do with it.

I notice you have avoided answering the direct question as you well know (I think that is the phrase ) Beckham wins that one easily.
So what is an appropriate age for a tattoo ?

but with these kits on sale, our white children will be contracting AIDS and hepetitus at an alarming rate.

A good point well made, sir, and welcome to VNN. I was only thinking of local infection (what 12 year old is going to keep their probably-hidden-from-parents tattoo clean and aired!?) but AIDS/HIV and the various hep strains is certainly something to consider.

I notice you have avoided answering the direct question as you well know (I think that is the phrase ) Beckham wins that one easily.
So what is an appropriate age for a tattoo ?

Appropriate age? I don't know. I was 16 and lied about my age. Was that too young - probably. Do I regret it? Not really. I had the foresight to choose something I could live with but I might have had it done in a different place if I'd been older. I'm always going to love animals so it's not like I had someone's name done......which leads me onto a 12 year old having her boyfriend's name done because she hearts him and knows they will be 2geva 4eva and then hating him a week later. I think 18 is fine. Maybe 21 for facial or hand tattoos.

Yet you have continually defended the practice of body tattooing on this very forum.Presumably if the starter packs were used to tattoo paganist,diabolist or other approved cult markings it would be fine and dandy.
Is the employed married with children mischling David Beckham a better or worse role model than the NF loon with skinhead tattooed on his nut ? Well is he ?

Beckham is a sportsman and is, I presume fit. Up until now, he has led (so far as we know) a drug and reasonably alcohol free lifestyle. In that respect, yes, he would be a good role model. Covered in full sleeve tattoos and tribal markings? No. That's not a good role model.

I don't know who you're on about with skinhead tattooed on his head, but I assume he is a patriot and espouses good, clean racial values. So yes, he is a good role model in that respect. Facial or scalp tattoos? No. Not a good role model.

I don't know who you're on about with skinhead tattooed on his head, but I assume he is a patriot and espouses good, clean racial values. So yes, he is a good role model in that respect. Facial or scalp tattoos? No. Not a good role model.

See this is a microcosm of the entire "movement" it is grotesque incompatible,and perverse to have a blighter publicly espousing "Good clean racial values" with a personally marred bonce.If he had any respect for the race he would not appear in public so marked it is madness.In fact in a decent world a blighter like that would be slotted or at least confined to a labour camp not considered a good role model for young patriots.

You cannot divorce one from the other all men are a sum of their parts.Any moral fibre such a blighter might have is nullified by his appearence.This dangerous and perverted belief in "the movement" that appearence indicates nothing and is superficial is absurd.Self evidently it is a personal decision how one looks and an individual must take responsibility for their own appearence.That as a given what on earth is the state of mind of such blighters ? What demons fight it out and influence them to appear weird and ugly and then draw attention to themselves with a public role advocating on behalf of the race ?

The equipment will be shite anyway, 30 odd quid doesn't buy professional quality equipment. The skinheads with tattoos on their heads are products of this society, they have rebelled against it visibly and are fighting for something better. I am sure they know that in a future NS Britain, tattoos and such things would become undesirable. Please credit them with some intelligence, they are not fools!

Anyone who thinks they don't have a problem with white people sporting tattoos, piercings, etc, would soon change that opinion, if their Legal Aid lawyer arrived at court looking like this pathetic self-hating twat.

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Anyone who thinks they don't have a problem with white people sporting tattoos, piercings, etc, would soon change that opinion, if their Legal Aid lawyer arrived at court looking like this pathetic self-hating twat.

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Henry, he does'nt look very white to me.

See this is a microcosm of the entire "movement" it is grotesque incompatible,and perverse to have a blighter publicly espousing "Good clean racial values" with a personally marred bonce.If he had any respect for the race he would not appear in public so marked it is madness.In fact in a decent world a blighter like that would be slotted or at least confined to a labour camp not considered a good role model for young patriots.

You cannot divorce one from the other all men are a sum of their parts.Any moral fibre such a blighter might have is nullified by his appearence.This dangerous and perverted belief in "the movement" that appearence indicates nothing and is superficial is absurd.Self evidently it is a personal decision how one looks and an individual must take responsibility for their own appearence.That as a given what on earth is the state of mind of such blighters ? What demons fight it out and influence them to appear weird and ugly and then draw attention to themselves with a public role advocating on behalf of the race ?

I do understand what you're saying, but it's like the ginger beard and combover thing. A minor "flaw" (for want of a better piercing/tattoo related word) wouldn't put me off that person if the rest of his morals/politics/behaviour/etc was of a reasonable standard. That said, I doubt I'd vote for someone with a tattoo on his face - not because I find it unacceptable (even though I do) but because I'd worry others would feel the same and that it would be a vote wasted.


Anyone who thinks they don't have a problem with white people sporting tattoos, piercings, etc, would soon change that opinion, if their Legal Aid lawyer arrived at court looking like this pathetic self-hating twat.

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Well, that's clearly over the top. Facial tattoos are hideous (exception being to help hide or tint scars, before some pedant chimes in) and gauging is even more so. For me, it's like everything else - tattooing/piercing has a degree of acceptable. One piercing outside the ears - maybe. Tattoo or two that is in a location that can be covered for work or other professional purposes - fine by me.

Henry, he does'nt look very white to me.

He is not white.
Thank you very much for the welcome Bev, how do you do?

This is another consequence that we hadn't even thought of. It ain't hard to see this happening in the houses of teenage mothers on every estate in Britain, is it?

A Georgia man has been banned from having contact with his son after he tattooed the three-year-old with the letters ‘DB’, which are short for ‘Daddy’s Boy’.

He had told police that he was drunk and did not remember tattooing the letters on the toddler’s body.

The tattoo was discovered when social workers visited the family home after someone complained about the living conditions.

Officers from the Department of Family and Children Services noticed the tattoo when they visited the house in May 2009 where Ashley lived with his wife Amy and their four children.

Police arrested and charged Ashley with tattooing someone under the age of 18. According to court documents the boy received the tattoo some time between January and May 2009.

Amy Ashley told how she discovered that her son had been given a tattoo. She said: 'My son runs up to me and says "Mummy, I've got a tattoo", and I said "You do", and I said "Does it wash off?", and he said "No it's real".'

She added: 'There's no excuse for what he did. I mean common sense, you just don't tattoo a three-year-old.

The child was taken into custody by the DFCS and is now cared for by the boy’s uncle, George Hawkins.

Mr Hawins claims that Amy Ashley knew about the tattoo for months before her husband was arrested and tried to cover it up with fake tattoos, but she has denied the claims.


He said: ‘He [Eugene Ashley] took full responsibility for giving the tattoo, but I think my niece should have been charged. Amy was charged with nothing. She tried to hide it.

She put fake tattoos over it to try and hide it.’

Mr Hawins said he thought Ashley was a good father before the discovery of the tattoo.

He said: ‘He'd work 12 to 16 hours a day, feed the kids, give them a bath and put them to bed and then clean the kitchen up.’

He added that the boy still remembers getting the tattoo and when asked if the tattoo hurt he says ‘a little bit’.


Ashley pleaded guilty before the case could be heard by a jury.

The only tattoo you ever need is of the name of someone who gave their life to save you.

Perhaps Nick Griffin could propose (or endorse) some Europe-wide legislation to ban such kits?

This is another consequence that we hadn't even thought of. It ain't hard to see this happening in the houses of teenage mothers on every estate in Britain, is it?

Imagine borstal spot tattoos on young children to make them look hard.

People confuse the therm "tattoos", with "freak".

I´m tattooer, and i have tattoos, arms, hands, neck and legs, but never make my face like this guy of the pic, he is a freak.

But the problem with " cheap tattoos" is serious, here in Spain, this stuff is a big problem for us, kids with 15 or 16 years old buy a tattoo machine by net and make "tattoos" at home, without sanitary control, a shame.

But tv programs like Miami Ink, London Ink, or whatever doesn´t help our proffesion, just kill her.
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