Harry Styles' tattoo artist leads campaign to regulate industry as it is revealed untrained tattooists are buying equipment on eBay - with terrifying consequences

• Celebrity tattoo artist Kevin Paul has launched ‘Tattoo Regulation 2013’
• The campaign is to introduce new regulations on industry to make it safer
• Currently there are no qualifications required and kits can be bought online 
• Kevin has tattooed Harry Styles, James Arther, Ed Sheeran and more

Tattoos done by totally untrained artists or by those who have brought a kit online, can result in poor tattoos and dangerous infections

Kevin Paul asked people to send in their pictures of badly done tattoos as part of the campaign and was inundated with responses

Even if unprofessional body art doesn't become infected, the results are often a long way from the desired result, with poor colouring (left) and bad drawing (right) commonly seen 

One Direction singer Harry Styles is a client of Kevin Paul, but has also let his untrained friends tattoo him

James Arthur (left) and Jamie Laing (right)  have both had work done by Kevin Paul,  tweeting from the studio

Kevin say the worry is that people just don’t realise they may be putting their health, not to mention their appearance at risk by visiting some tattoo parlours, or going to ‘artists’ homes

Currently there is no qualification required and there is no proof of training, experience or knowledge about tattooing needed to open a parlour or buy kits online 

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