{"id":698134,"date":"2026-07-18T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698134\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:50:10","slug":"bottomless-tattoo-events-cheapen-industry-say-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698134\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottomless tattoo events cheapen industry, say artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tanya Buxton, owner of Paradise Tattoo Studio in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire said: &#8220;It&#8217;s encouraging irresponsibility.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tattooing is not meant to be gimmicky,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buxton said the trend, which is often advertised on Instagram and TikTok for as little as \u00a3150 for a three-hour session, had been fuelled in-part by permanent make-up practitioners branching into fine-line tattooing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re trying to find new clients all the time,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re starting to do these tiny tattoos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s something that makes a lot of tattoo studios feel like they have to match, so people are now expecting cheap tattoos,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanya Buxton, owner of Paradise Tattoo Studio in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire said: &#8220;It&#8217;s encouraging irresponsibility.&#8221; &#8220;Tattooing is not meant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}