14 DAY TRIAL // Getting a tattoo might no longer be as original or outrageous as it once was, but it's certainly as attractive. Proof of that is the fact that nowadays more women in the US have body art than men do, as the video below will confirm.
Shot during last weekend's New York City Tattoo Convention, the 15th annual edition, it proves that ink is becoming increasingly more appealing to women than before, assuming a recent survey that says the same isn't enough to convince you.
Said survey has revealed that 23 percent of women in the US have at least one tattoo on them, whereas only 19 percent of men go under the needle.
As the video will show, the women are also willing to travel many miles and spend a small fortune to get their piece done by someone whose work they value – and who's a woman as well, if possible.
Actress Lucy Challenger, for instance, traveled all the way to New York from London to have a 2-year-old piece completed.
She says the process was lengthy, painful and expensive, but she doesn't regret it in the least. She too chose to have a female tattoo artist work on her, because she wanted the tattoo to have a “feminine touch.”
The piece is a phoenix that stretches from her upper thigh all the way to her rib cage, over her derrière.
“I’ve had about 35 hours of work so far, and I’ve got another eight hours to go. So I’m it bringing home for the women that, you know, we can sit there and just take it,” Challenger says.
This last session cost her $1,000 (€769.8) and she realizes she spent a lot more to see her piece completed.
“It is a big investment. Not everyone can spend that amount of money, but it is once in a lifetime,” she says.
As for why she chose to have a female tattoo artist (their numbers too are increasing) do the work on her, Challenger says she's more comfortable that way.
“Her work is unbelievable. And I was really attracted to the fact that she’s obviously a woman and I really wanted a feminine touch in my tattoo,” she says.