Meet the Three-Year-Old Tattoo Artist
When she turns four, Ruby Dickinson will use a specially-designed miniature tattoo gun to ink a spider on her dad's leg. This will make her the world's youngest tattoo artist. Peaches Geldof has her wobbly little hands on retainer already.
Now three, Ruby is rehearsing her design. Her father says she is mere weeks away from drawing a spider to completion. The Sun interviewed her father, Blane Dickinson of Wales:
Blane, 36, said: "I'm under no illusions that she'll do a Van Gogh, after all she's only three-and-a-half.
"But I've got 70 per cent of my body covered in tattoos already and it'll only be the size of a 2p piece, so I'm not too worried she'll make a mess of it."
The last time I interacted with a three-year-old girl, she lacked the hand-eye coordination to draw a heart. Every time she tried, she'd end up with a lopsided letter 'D.' Which is to say, Ruby should be ready to ink Amy Winehouse's next messy Blake Incarcerated tribute in a week or two.
Blane's tattoo parlour is called Inkaholics Anonymous. [Sun via BullfightsOnAcid, DailyMail]