18 October 2009
Angelina Jolie tattoos all the rage in Asia
Cindy Lau
Angelina Jolie worship has reached new heights in Asia with tattooists in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong commenting that the most popular requests for tattoos they get from the recently expanding female market are requests to copy tattoos that Angelina Jolie decorates her body with.
This trend is so pronounced that a specific ‘Angelina Jolie’ catalogue and guide for tattoo artists has been created. ‘Sid’ Tang who owns a trendy tattoo parlour in Hong Kong comments. ‘Every week ladies come in and ask to look at the Angelina Jolie catalogue and I would do at least four such tattoos a week’.
‘The most popular are the ‘sayings' that she wears, which is funny because most of my clients can’t actually read them anyway’.
According to Wikiepedia:Jolie currently has thirteen tattoos, among them the Tennessee Williams quote ‘A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages’ which she got together with her mother, the Arabic language phrase ‘strength of will’, the Latin proverb ‘quod me nutrit me destruit’ and a Yantra prayer written in the ancient Khmer script for her son Maddox.
  
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