{"id":250954,"date":"2025-10-25T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250954\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:39:11","slug":"celebrity-tattoo-artist-mark-mahoney-reacts-to-grimes-face-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250954\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Tattoo Artist Mark Mahoney Reacts to Grimes&#8217; Face Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Tattoo Artist Mark Mahoney<br \/>\n                          Reacts to Grimes Tattoo &#8230;<br \/>\n                          Need to Go to Extremes For Shock &amp; Awe!!!<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published October 24, 2025 5:46 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1f1d5c1be4b149d3bbc6eaa0242c6f17_md.png\" alt=\"102425 mark mahoney kal,jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZ.com<\/p>\n<p>Grimes&#8217; tattoo is a bold move &#8212; one ya gotta make to shock people with tattoos these days &#8230; so says a celebrity tat artist who has been around the block a time or two.<\/p>\n<p>We caught up with Mark Mahoney &#8212; a pro who&#8217;s been practicing his craft for nearly five decades &#8212; and we showed him Grimes&#8217; new controversial tattoo &#8230; which is basically a big red circle that looks almost like a scar around her eye.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251023_5abc2012cd034309aa6600a285efe56e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:316a649f-4ed0-4010-98dd-ce0415822df3\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5abc2012cd034309aa6600a285efe56e_md.jpg\" alt=\"grimes face tattoo main\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark &#8212; who has tattooed stars like David Beckham, Lady Gaga and more &#8212; says even a small tattoo on the arm used to shock old ladies at the store &#8230; but, in today&#8217;s culture, shock from tattoo is reserved for the wild and crazier ideas &#8212; which he thinks might be the reason Grimes decided on this design.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mahoney says part of the fun of tattoo is to shock people &#8230; and, he&#8217;s all for Grimes&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cocreate.ink\/articles\/cybersigilism-tattoo-style\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">cybersigilism<\/a>&#8221; tattoo &#8212; an emerging style that blends ancient symbolism with digital aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251024_d60435e3a0554ecbb42a275908512882\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:316a649f-4ed0-4010-98dd-ce0415822df3\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d60435e3a0554ecbb42a275908512882_md.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Mahoney Jesse Tam sub swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We asked Mahoney if he tries to talk his clients out of crazy tattoos like this or if he&#8217;s always down with the wild ideas &#8230; and, Mark says he&#8217;s in the latter camp &#8212; he&#8217;s even done a face tattoo before. Watch the clip all the way through to hear that wild story.<\/p>\n<p>Mark was one of many big stars at Posse&#8217;s Spooky Soiree earlier this week &#8230; with Chase Hudson leading the bold-faced names in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s spooky season &#8230; and, it sounds like Mark thinks Grimes got into the spirit of the season with her new jaw-dropping ink!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tattoo Artist Mark Mahoney Reacts to Grimes Tattoo &#8230; Need to Go to Extremes For Shock &amp; Awe!!!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-250954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}