Tattoo artist explains the only body art she will always refuse to do

There are no limits for some tattoo artists on what they will ink onto a person, just look at Just Tattoo of Us for proof, but one artist has made it clear the one piece she will never do.

Tattoos continue to grow in popularity, with it being almost impossible to walk down a street in the UK and not see at least one person with a striking statement on their skin.

From traditional line art to ultra realistic portraits and beyond to innovative new styles, there has never been such a wide range of body art options on offer.

It's even possible to get 98% of your body tatted up, like Amber Luke, even if it does cost a gigantic $250,000 (£132,740) to do so.

Yet, there are some lines artists will not cross and popular tattooist Sydney Mulvaney has revealed hers.

Speaking to VT, the 31-year-old explained she 'rarely refuses to do a tattoo' but there is no chance she will be inking anything hate-speech related.

With a great artist comes great responsibility, and there can't be many jobs where the margin of error is as thin as a tattoo artist. Not even if you're Donald Trump.

Just one slip of the needle could lead to injury, while a mistake on the piece itself could leave a client raging with a permanent reminder of your mishap.

Sydney, who has nearly 200k followers on her @SydneyTattoos TikTok account, freely admits she made such mistakes, like engraving the wrong time on a clock and misspelling words, back when she was an apprentice.

With 12 years of experience under her belt and her own studio in Saginaw, Michigan, USA, those errors are well behind Sydney now. In fact, she's now the one dishing out the advice, like what tattoos people should stay away from.

"I think what they maybe shouldn't do is those little designs on fingers and hands," she explained.

"Because they usually don't heal as well, especially on the bottoms or the sides of the fingers.

"I always try to sway people away from doing that, especially if they're not heavily tattooed already, because a lot of younger people are getting them on their hands, they're getting them on their neck, they're getting them on their face - these are places where we would call it a job stopper tattoo."

Though visible tattoos have become much more accepted in the modern world, even in work places, Sydney believes people should avoid them in risqué places if they 'haven't earned them yet.'

"If you've got the majority of your body covered, go ahead and get the neck tattoo, get the hand tattoo," she said.

"But if you don't already have that, you shouldn't be getting tattoos in super visible places, because even though tattoos are more acceptable, they still aren't held as professional in a lot of places."