Napat Mitmakorn: Thailand's 9-Year-Old Tattoo Artist Takes Internet By Storm

Like India's Goa, many people visit Thailand for its tattoo craze. Generations together are seeing tattooing in Thailand as it's a centuries-old tradition. A nine-year-old boy, Napat Mitmakorn, who learned the art from his father, has taken the internet by storm for his tattooing skills.

Napat has a small booth at Bangkok where he inks people and sees them recording him out of wonder and delight. He often fascinates tattoo enthusiasts for being for being young and talented.

9-year-old Thai tattoo artist

In viral visuals, he is seen using surgical gloves and quality equipment during his work. Recently, he caught the attention of social media users after he was spotted tattooing a pattern of a fanged serpent on a man's body. He held the tattoo gun in his hands and was engrossed in his work with a subtle smile on his face, suggesting he was enjoying what he was doing.

His dad taught him tattooing

Speaking to AFP, he revealed that he started tattooing as a way to get rid of his phone addiction. His father taught him the art, wanting the little one to engage in something more fruitful than using the phone all day. While that's how it started, he gradually developed a keen interest towards tattoos. Now, he wants to make this his career by setting up his own tattoo parlour when he grows up.

"I want to be a tattoo artist and open my own tattoo parlour...I like art so I like to tattoo", he told the news agency. "I just wanted to keep him away from his phone because he was addicted to gaming and had a short attention span," Napat's 38-year-old father, Nattawut Sangtong, added.