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If you want to see Lil Wayne’s latest tattoos, you’ll need to turn out the lights.

In the much-marked hip-hop star’s recently released video to accompany for his upcoming EP “I’m Not a Human Being”, he shows off his latest glow in the dark tattoos – visible only with a black light, reports EW.

And he wants people to know that the smattering of glowing green stars on his face and the lipstick kiss on his neck are real.

In the behind-the-scenes footage released yesterday, he says, “I want everybody to know beforehand, when you see the black light and you see the kiss and the stars, don’t think that I got some s— painted on me. The s— hurt.”

“The best thing about the black light tattoo is that when you cut the light on, you can’t see them,” he adds.

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UV tattoos (or black light tattoos) are created using white tattoo ink or a special kind of ink that only becomes visible under black light. This type of tattoo ink has been used in celebrity tattoos and is currently more costly than regular tattoo ink. Tattoo art done with white ink or UV ink can be more painful, though, than those done with regular tattoo ink since thicker and more high-quality ink has to be used. But this hasn’t stopped Hollywood A-listers to get their own white ink tattoo. Kate Moss started the trend and a lot of young women followed suit. Interestingly, though, no male celebrity was reported as getting or sporting a white ink tattoo. Below are four beautiful stars who dared to be different with this type of tattoo.

* Kate Moss. The supermodel, fashion designer and mother of one has had a number of tattoos done over the years. Besides small, dainty tattoos of swallows on her lower back, a heat on her left hand, a crown on her left shoulder and an anchor on her right forearm, this stunning beauty was reported to have numerous stars in white tattoo ink done all over one side of her body.

* Lindsay Lohan. This wild girl had her first tattoo art done on her forearm-a tiny, black outline of a star. She soon became addicted to this form of body art and her collection of tattoos includes the words “la bella vita” on her lower back. Inspired by a John Lennon quote (“Get out there and get peace, think peace, live peace, and breathe peace, and you’ll get it as soon as you like”), Lindsay had the word “breathe” tattooed in white ink on her wrist.

* Jasmine Lennard. The feisty English model, reality TV star and ex-girlfriend of American Idol’s Simon Cowell transformed her body into a canvas for tattoo art by having Simon’s initials inked on the inside of her arm. She also has the words “trust no one” tattooed on a finger. She also hit the parlor-not for a blowdry-but for a white ink tattoo, which spelled “amore appassionato” (love passionately). She says she saw Lindsay Lohan’s own white ink tattoo and was inspired to get one herself.

* Khloe Kardashian. This rebellious reality TV star has numerous tattoo art in different parts of her body. She says that each tattoo she has means something to her. She has the word “Daddy” with a cross on the small of her back, the words “I love you” in her late father’s handwriting on her wrist, and her husband’s initials on her hand. She also has the letters “KK,” which are the initials of all her sisters, done in white ink on her wrist.

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Luminescent tattoos or UV tattoos have become the “fashion” among young Hanoians. It differs from normal tattoo only in that the normal ink is replaced by imported luminescent or UV ink.

The people with UV tattoos like going to discotheques and clubs to show off their tattoos because under ultraviolet lights, their tattoos shine.

A VNExpress reporter met several young people at a tattoo shop in Hanoi. They had paid a deposit to book the tattoos they liked.

“It is hard to find a tattoo shop like this where we can get UV tattoos, explained a girl named Lan Anh. The shop owner learned in France and his equipment is clean. Many people like tattoos, but they don’t dare use UV ink.”

A girl named Hoa acknowledged that “Tattoos are art so there is no specific price.” She pulled up her sleeve to show a new tattoo featuring a 10cm pattern and bragged, “This costs me 900,000 dong. So cheap! It would usually be 1.5 million dong!”

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OK I’ll try and keep this story fairly short, I’ve been into tattoos since I was a teenager, got my first one on my 18 th birthday. I haven’t stopped pretty much since then, the intervals between getting tattooed became shorter and shorter and I’m not on a monthly basis working on a Japanese style body suit.

I heard a few times about UV tattoos and saw quiet a few pictures on, http://www.bmezine.com/ I asked my tattoo artist about it, he said he’s heard about it and new one of his regulars had gotten one done somewhere but wasn’t sure exactly where. So I thought hell the Internet is one of the best sources to get information. A simple search on UV tattoo ink pretty much found me a seller from America that supplied UV tattoo ink that they claim is USFDA approved.

I ordered some ink and waited about six weeks due to back orders and shipping from America to Australia. I took the ink down to my tattoo artist and said we gotta give it a shot, during the time I was waiting for the UV ink to arrive I got myself a small Ultraviolet torch which would assist in the tattooing procedure.

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