Spilled Ink

More women than ever are getting tattooed. And for many, it’s a way to reclaim their culture and identity, revive traditions abolished by colonisation, and transform scars into works of art

By Coco Marett

You get some interesting questions as a woman with tattoos. Examples of things I’ve been asked include “Can I touch it?”, “How will you hide them on your wedding day?” and “Why would you put a bumper sticker on a Bentley?” (To their credit, this was a creative one.) Shame, promiscuity and undesirability are common associations people have made with women who have chosen to decorate their skin. But many of those women have a very different perspective. “As a relatively heavily tattooed person, you definitely receive judgement sometimes,” says Akiko Sakai, a model and founder of The Studio, which teaches art and yoga in Hong Kong. “On the flipside, there is so much appreciation, and I would have to say in my experience that the appreciation outweighs the judgement.…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2022

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