Award winning tattoo artist ‘Tattoo Tom’ , whose style varies from coloured tattoos to comic mashups, spoke about the upcoming trend of vegan tattoo’s in the Bournemouth area.
How long have you been doing vegan tattoos?
“Since I started, I’ve been vegan since I was 18… Every tattoo we do, we don’t use any (animal) products”.
![Georgina Barnes](http://buzz.bournemouth.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Unknown-1-1-720x452.jpeg)
Are vegan tattoos a big thing?
“It’s important to me that I can do any job as a vegan, I wouldn’t want to be investing and funding things that involve animal testing and animal products”.
![Georgina Barnes](http://buzz.bournemouth.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Unknown-8-720x480.jpeg)
Do you think vegan tattoos will progress worldwide?
“I think just vegansism in general has spread exponentially over the last couple of years to the point that every single restaurant has a vegan option. I think as time goes on it’s going to be come completely normalised. I don’t think it’ll be long before the whole process is across the board”.
Bournemouth residents give their opinions on tattoos.
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