For several weeks leading up to Chinese New Year, Singapore’s Chinatown bustles with festive activity. Colorful decorations, crowded streets and multitudes of shopkeepers selling holiday related goods embrace the celebratory atmosphere. Visitors buy everything from traditional Mandarin orange gifts to New Year charms to ornamental lanterns. It’s all really fun and interesting to see.
While visiting, one street vendor caught my eye… this temporary tattoo artist offered several CNY inspired designs. And at only five dollars I couldn’t resist asking him for the dragon tattoo. The application was simple: it involved a latex template and an airbrush to spray the temporary ink onto my skin. Much less painful than getting a real tattoo, I expect!
CNY Dragon Tattoo
Just Outside Chinatown
