Published 10:34 IST, February 11th 2020
Germany: 9-year-old Maya Lu is world's youngest tattoo artist
Germany girl Maya Lu started her career inking scribbles onto her parent's feet when she was barely a toddler and initially used a tattoo gun.
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Maya Lu from Tengen, South Germany, is reportedly world’s youngest tattoo artist having picked up needle when she was only 2-year-old. 9-year-old works at studio Psyland 25 at Tengen and is a proficient artist with advanced level skills, techniques, and designs, suggest reports.
Maya started her career inking scribbles onto her parent's feet when she was barely a toddler and initially used a tattoo gun, Maya’s nbinary parent, Lily Lu told reporters. y said that child grew up mostly spending time at family studio creating her abilities and polishing m over years.
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parent said that Maya had mostly been devoid of parental supervision and is a product of inspiration that she channeled in art at studio. y added that child had developed her own style, however, most of what she learned was taught to her by heavily tattooed Lily Lu.
Lily furr explained to reporters that Maya had acquired her parent’s tricks and techniques to create her own original designs, and perhaps picked a few skills from friends at tattoo studio. y said that Maya progressed over years as she started to paint motifs and later advanced to stenciling tattoo motifs.
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Lily wants child to explore career choices
It was a few years later that kid had started learning different techniques and using bigger and different needles, Lily told reporters. Maya needed help in first few years but was eventually able to make tattoos entirely on her own, suggest reports. According to reports, Maya's parent wants to keep kid distant from feeling pressurized by her artistic skills and would t want child to consider tattooing as her only career choice. Maya's specialty is monkeys, as she’s fond of creating various designs of apes using a big needle, confirmed her parent Lily to media.
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10:34 IST, February 11th 2020