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Nine-year-old Thai Tattooist Makes His Mark

Napat Mitmakorn and his father learned tricks from TikTok tutorials and practised on paper before graduating to artificial leather, and then the real thing (Credit: AFP)

Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man's upper thigh.

"I want to be a tattoo artist and open my own tattoo palour," he told AFP in his booth at a Bangkok tattoo expo, where fascinated attendees paused to film his work. "I like art so I like to tattoo."

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