WHILE unwilling to enter the controversy highlighted by the M&S experience, I find that the craze among women to cover up their natural beauty with tattoos is something that I cannot stomach.

Years ago there were real health and beauty issues by wanting to disguise birthmarks etc, and good science has reduced the need.

I find it an embellishment that is very unattractive, and can understand the reaction, but not the way it has attracted the wrong sort of outcry.

I guess I am from the generation that accepted people as they were and the saying, “beauty is not skin deep”.

Lovely personalities do not need visual alterations.

BRIAN GALPIN, Tatnam Road, Poole