'I have 25 tattoos all over my body - I regret them all'

A woman with 25 tattoos says she regrets every single one. Rose Nicholson, 32, an accountant, got her first tattoo when she was 19 - an 8in heart design across her chest.

And over the next eight years she added a half sleeve of colourful characters from Neverhood - a 90s computer game - on her arm, along with lyrics to song 'Smile' by Eyedea and Abilities. On the same arm, she had four pre-designed "flash" tattoos - where you turn up on the day - and three Harry Potter tattoos.

She continued adding tattoos all over her body until she was 27. Her final one - the Deftones White Pony logo on the back of her thigh - was at the age of 27 but Rose says by that by the time she was 30 she "hated" them all.

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Rose, from Manchester, says she considered getting them removed - but it's too expensive. She said: "I still love Harry Potter but I don’t want it on my skin. “I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea.

“I don’t like the way it looks on me anymore. They don't look right with the clothes I want to wear. There was no attempt at design. There is no uniformity. The work isn’t bad, but it’s cartoon characters.

"By the time I was 30 I realised I hated my tattoos and wished I could take them all back.”

Rose, who works as an accountant in Manchester, says that she nearly always wears long sleeves to work prevent people from seeing her tattoos. “The first time everyone saw them at work was during a 40 degree heatwave and people were surprised," she said.

She said that she doesn’t wear low cut shirts due to her heart tattoo. “It was my first tattoo," she said.

"I didn’t really want it that big but the tattoo artist talked me into it