Getting an actual tattoo on your face might be the greatest beauty taboo yet — or perhaps not.
FACIAL TATTOOS ARE polarising. Take for example, the outpouring of incredulity at rapper Post Malone’s latest facial ink: the words “Always” and “Tired” scrawled under each eye, which joins “Stay Away” (above the left eyebrow), barbed wire (hairline), a sword (left temple), a smiley face with crosses for the eyes and a Playboy bunny (under the corner of the left eye). “Who needs expensive creams and serums when you can tattoo over your dark circles?” writes Emma Baty for Cosmopolitan. Baty continues to credit the 22-year-old rapper for coming up with the “greatest beauty hack of all time”.
While most of the reaction towards Post Malone’s tattoo referred to it as “relatable” and were by and large grudgingly amused, in the case of Kate Bullen, a young British woman who goes by the moniker Kate Alice on social media, it wasn’t as friendly. Earlier this year, Bullen decided to publicly declare her commitment to a cruelty-free lifestyle by having the word “vegan” tattooed prominently above her eyebrow and taking up nearly half her forehead. Internet backlash was swift and brutal; responses ranged from “obvious mental issues” to “no one will employ you anymore”.
This story is from the July 2018 edition of T Singapore: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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