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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Nine year old thai tattooist makes his mark - Caught on Camera

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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