Tattoo fans disguise and celebrate their BIRTHMARKS with these brilliant designs… featuring the Cookie Monster and an intricate world map
Body art fans have found a clever way to feel confident about their blemishes
BODY art enthusiasts have incorporated their birthmarks into an array of brilliant tattoos.
While there’s no doubt people may feel self-conscious of their blemishes, these incredible inkings help disguise - and celebrate - the skin imperfections.
has rounded up some of the most eye-catching designs, which include Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster, an intricate world map and a pretty floral pattern.
A curly-haired man transformed the red blotches on his right arm and hand into an atlas by carefully doodling around them with a black pen.
Keeping with the map theme, another tatt fanatic designed a treasure hunt on his brown birthmark, which now now looks like an island.
A woman showed off the jaw-dropping transformation after covering up the red markings on her left bicep with a stunning bouquet of orange flowers.
A joker had the face of Sesame Street character the Cookie Monster etched onto his foot below his circular birthmark that now looks like a chocolate chip biscuit.
Meanwhile, some animal lovers have got creative with their creature-themed inkings.
A woman had the brown oval blemish on her leg incorporated into a turtle, and a man had his brown spot transformed into a woolly mammoth.
Another ink lover had a small brown spot turned into a beautiful owl in a cage.
A body art fan turned heads after having a Pac-Man drawn next to the mole on his ribs.
Other unusual yet gorgeous designs include the outline of a rose on top of pink markings, and a dark blemish that was transformed into the hair on an angel.
Laugh-out-loud emblems also featured.
One man had Mr Potato Head’s face drawn onto his spud-shaped birthmark, a girl had a carrot outline drawn around her orange-hued blemish and a Pokemon fan had the character Charmander etched next to his flame-shaped mark.
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Keith McCurdy of BangBang, who has inked Rihanna and Cara Delevingne, says photorealism, tiny designs and hip inkings will be popular choices.
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George Michael, Carrie Fisher and David Bowie have all been immortalised in ink.
What is a birthmark?
Birthmarks are coloured marks that are visible on the skin.
They're often present at birth or develop soon afterwards.
There are several different types of birthmark and some of them are very common.
The two main types of birthmark are:
- vascular birthmarks (often red, purple or pink) caused by abnormal blood vessels in or under the skin
- pigmented birthmarks (usually brown) caused by clusters of pigment cells
Vascular birthmarks often occur in the head and neck area, mainly on the face.
But both types of birthmark can appear anywhere, including inside the body.
If surface blood vessels are affected, a vascular birthmark will appear red, purple or pink.
If the affected vessels are deep, the birthmark will appear blue.
Pigmented birthmarks are tan or brown-coloured skin marks.
Source: NHS