It’s just tattoo much! Uproar over colour-blind EU ink ban

Many of the most popular tattoo inks have been outlawed because certain chemicals are considered hazardous

18 January 2022 - 20:11 By Johnny Cotton

Tattoo parlours across the EU were in crisis earlier this month 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”...

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