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Hailua tattoo CLUB - Tattoo vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge – Many young people have stopped thinking of tattoos as
reserved for eccentric artists and gangsters and go to Tattoo Club Vietnam
to express themselves; body art can cost anywhere from VND300,000 to several
millions.
“Tattoos are no longer in a negative light, like in the past, so I want to
commemorate my first love by getting one. Perhaps my girlfriend will also
like it,” said Hung, a customer at Tattoo Club Vietnam.
Located in a small, deep lane near the Hanoi National Economics University,
Tattoo Club serves maximum of two customers per day only.
The club offers a wide variety of designs, ranging from simple roses and
hearts to the more complicated, dragons (the symbol of power and strength),
spiders (symbol of meditation), phoenix (symbol of hero), and also create
based on customers’ requests and ideas.
According to the club’s manager, customers include students, intellectuals,
manual laborers, artists and foreigners.
Men often choose football team logos, patterns or their favorite
footballers, while foreigners love Dong Son bronze drums or a Vietnamese
flag.
Dung, a barber in Hanoi, said after several days thinking about what to get,
decided on a lion tattoo on his shoulder, this cost him several million VND.
“Vietnamese people often think tattoos are a symbol of gangsters, but it is
acceptable and popular abroad,” Dung said.
Tattoo Club Vietnam was opened in 1999 by Tran Chi Hieu. It is known to use
the most modern tattoo techniques and equipment in Hanoi. Hieu periodically
sends his staff to Thailand for further education.
However, the club refuses to serve people under 18. “They are too young and
are not mature enough to be sure and tattoos are very difficult to remove,”
Tuan, a staff at Tattoo Club Vietnam explained.
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