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SEE VIDEO Pharrell Williams: I'm getting new skin for more tattoos

US hip hop star wants to replace his 'childish' artwork

Pharrell Williams will fork out thousands for the treatment

Pharrell Williams plans to use skin grown in a test tube to cover the tattoos on his arms.

The N.E.R.D. frontman is bored of his existing designs and hopes to start afresh with the help of a pioneering graft technique.

‘It's going to be pricey, but f*** it, it's worth it,’ he says. ‘I got fire on my arms. I don't need fire on my arms! I'm a grown man.

‘There's a place called the Wake Forest Institute For Regenerative Skin Treatment in North Carolina.

'It's basically like getting a skin graft, but you're not taking skin from your ass or legs - these guys actually grow the skin for you.

‘First you have to give them a sample of your skin, which they then replicate. Once that's been done, they sew it on - and it's seamless.’

But Pharrell, 35, is already considering what to replace his artwork with.

‘When it's healed you can go get whatever tattoo you want,’ he says.

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