They are the latest accessory for Hollywood A-listers, they’re extremely painful to have applied – and even then they are so subtle you can barely see them.

But white-ink tattoos have become an overnight success with a host of celebrity
followers from supermodel Kate Moss to actress Lindsay Lohan.

The permanent designs are applied with a regular tattoo gun, yet use ink that is thicker and of a higher quality than normal to stand out on the skin.

Lindsay Lohan (left) and Kate Moss have white-ink tattoos

Model and reality TV star Jasmine Lennard, 22, has become the latest celebrity to have one done, spending £100 for the words a more appassionato (love passionately) to be inscribed on the inside of her right wrist in white ink.

Jasmine went to the Shamrock tattoo parlour on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, a popular haunt for celebrities including Victoria Beckham and Angelina Jolie.

Showing off her new tattoo at a celebrity book launch last week, Jasmine, who starred in Make Me A Supermodel and has moved to LA to launch her TV career, had the design stencilled below a conventional tattoo of the initials SC.

She said: ‘Everyone in LA is having the tattoos so I just had to have one. I saw Lindsay Lohan had one and it looked so pretty I asked her where she got it. She told me to go to the Shamrock. At first I was terrified to go because I thought it looked like a branding rather than a tattoo.

‘The tattoo was red after it was done but I love the design because it’s subtle and you don’t really see it unless you are looking for it, which is the charm of the whole thing.

'Lots of stars have them. I was told Kate Moss has white ink hearts all up the side of her body.’

Jasmine Lennard said she loves the design of her new tattoo

Sources close to Jasmine say her ornate SC in black ink stands for X Factor judge Simon Cowell, with whom she has a close friendship.

Unlike regular tattoos, white ink tattoos should not be exposed to the sun as it can cause them to fade.

Nasko Ganev, of the Portobello Tattoo and Piercing centre in West London, said the tattoos are becoming increasingly popular in the UK.

But he cautioned: ‘I wouldn’t recommend them because they fade much faster than standard tattoos. Also, if the skin is very white you just can’t see them and they look like scar tissue.’