It began with a simple idea. If enough people liked his social media post, Benjamin Lloyd, a New Zealand tattoo artist, would delight kids in hospitals by giving them easily washable, non-toxic temporary tattoos. The post in question received nearly half a million likes, and Lloyd stayed true to his word.

Now, nearly ten years later, Lloyd visits kids in children’s hospitals to deliver the magic. He began with Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland. As one Instagram post (@the_richsite) poetically shared, “In a hospital full of needles, he gives kids tattoos that don’t hurt. They heal.”

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My Modern Met Staff Writer Emma Taggart shares some of Lloyd’s backstory as an artist, particularly his experience working with ill children. In........

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