Who wants to be an inky wrinkly?

A tattoo might look good now, but wait till you're old.

Now that the sun's out there's a feeling of optimism in the air, says Eleanor Mills in The Sunday Times. But, as always, there's "a downside". Although we've been lured into baring our "long-hidden" pale flesh, the hot weather has brought forth "a dark horde, a veritable plague of dragons and snakes, feathered wings, tribal art and misspelt Sanskrit".

From Victoria Beckham's back at the Wimbledon men's final to builders everywhere, the tattoo is "a blight on the joys of summer". Our national infatuation with it is evident in last week's picture of Prince Charles and supermodel Cara Delevingne at a charity function at St James's Palace. "Do you have any tattoos?" she asked him, showing him the tattoo of a lion on her finger and confiding that she has another that reads "Made in England" on a more intimate part of her anatomy.

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