Video: Tattoos for children: the artist pleases the patients of the children's hospital with drawings on the skin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
This Sunday, New Zealand artist Benjamin Lloyd posted an announcement on his Facebook page that if his post gets 50 likes, he will go to the local children's hospital to paint tattoos for the kids there. Temporary, of course. His post got not 50, but more than 400,000 likes in just one night!
On Monday, Lloyd did go to a local hospital - an experiment agreed to by the management of Starship Children's Hospital Auckland. With the permission of the parents, the children went to the tattoo procedure. The artist himself is not a tattoo artist, and his "tattoos" are just drawings with the help of an airbrush, but the impressions and joy that children get from this experience are the most real.
Lloyd is not getting paid for this, it is entirely a charitable initiative. “Nothing brings me more joy than letting kids feel important and beautiful with a tattoo that they love,” says the artist. - "The only negative is that the kids do not want to swim later."
The idea of getting temporary tattoos for children in the hospital was born from my own experience. Two years ago, Lloyd's adopted son Linden died, and this tragedy greatly influenced the artist. It is important for him to do something that can brighten up the time spent in the hospital for other children, see their smiles.
Unlike children, adults can decide for themselves whether they want a real tattoo, and if so, what kind of tattoo it should be. Recently, fluorescent tattoos have become more and more popular, which become visible only under the light of a UV lamp. What is true, you need to be careful with such tattoos, and why exactly - read in our article " Secret tattoos".
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