New Zealand-based tattoo artist, Benjamin Lloyd, specializes in impressive airbrushed tattoos for children designed to put a smile on his young clients’ faces.

It all started in 2016, when artist Benjamin Lloyd posted an image of a friend’s young son with a skull and roses design airbrushed on his arm and torso. It looked just like an actual tattoo, even though it was just spray painted on the young boy, and in only a day, Lloyd’s photo went viral, garnering over 400,000 likes in just a few hours. He had captioned the photo with a promise. If his post got at least 50 likes, he would go to a children’s hospital and give the kids there airbrushed tattoos to cheer them up. After his post got hundreds of thousands of likes, he had no choice but to keep his promise.

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“The kids are so amazed. As soon as they get the tattoo it boosts their confidence,” Mr Lloyd said. “The only bad thing is that they don’t want to take a shower afterward.”

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Benjamin Lloyd takes around nine minutes to complete one of his amazingly-realistic tattoos using stencils and then spraying freehand.

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In case you’re worried about the kids’ health, Benjamin says he uses a custom, non-toxic ink that is easy to wash off in the shower.

Photo: Benjamin Lloyd/Facebook

Lloyd isn’t the first person to make headlines for giving young children realistic-looking temporary tattoos. Just a few weeks back, we wrote about a mother who gave her toddler realistic tattoos just because she thought he looked cool.