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Tattooist confirms new Zayn Malik body art was inspired by Perrie Edwards

A US tattooist has opened up on One Direction star Zayn Malik's latest piece of body art.

As previously reported, the Bradford singer turned heads recently by appearing to have an image of girlfriend Perrie Edwards tattooed onto his right arm whilst in Maryland.

Speaking to MTV, needle maestro John Garancheski confirmed that Malik asked him to create a cartoon female on his arm similar to Edwards, which took two hours to make. He said:

"Zayn had a very specific image in his mind for his new ink: a female in the likeness of his real-life girlfriend, Little Mix's Perrie Edwards - like a comic caricature kind of thing. He showed me a picture of his girlfriend, Perrie, and he was like 'I kind of want it to look like her, but not to be her, to kind of be like a comic-style version of her'."

Garancheski was also visited by Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne, with the latter deciding against being inked. He added:

"They were so casual and they were such nice guys. They were super cool. They came in and they had a couple ideas of what they wanted to get done. And Louis and Zayn were the ones who actually ended up getting tattoos. Liam had some ideas, I think, but he wasn't super committed. He went and kicked around town."

 

 

 

 

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