Why I tip my Tattoo Artist

There is a lot written online about how much to tip a tattoo artist, mostly from a US perspective where tipping is a completely different part of their culture than here in the UK. That is not to say that we in the UK do not tip, in fact nothing can be farther from the truth, but that it is not institutionalised in the same way.

In the US, tipping in the service industry for the most part adheres to an established standard of 10 or 20%. In the UK we are a lot more loose with this – in general...