Sick of explaining her eating habits to people, an English woman tattooed the word "vegan" on to her face.

Kate Bullen, a 22-year-old from Preston in the UK who goes by the name Kate Alice online, shared her two new tattoos on Twitter. "Got a suicide awareness and vegan tattoo today, love em," she wrote.

Got a suicide awareness and vegan tattoo today, love em :’) pic.twitter.com/u3OTqA41Fz — Kate Alice ♀Ⓥ (@spunk_m0nkey) January 25, 2018

A fellow Twitter user posted Snapchat pictures taken before after the ink was added above Bullen's right eyebrow. "Now I don't need to tell everyone I'm vegan every five minutes," Bullen captioned them.

Stop the world I'm getting off 🌎🚶🏽 pic.twitter.com/dw9avnZFKp — brad loram (@BradLoram) January 25, 2018

Despite the backlash she faced on social media, Alice told The Independent she didn't have any regrets.

"A lot of tattoos that people get don't necessarily have a meaning behind them but as I'm incredibly passionate about veganism and know that I'll be vegan for life, I wanted this one to be someplace visible," she said.

"I've had a lot of comments about being 'unemployable', which doesn't matter to me since I've been self-employed since I was 18. Besides it's easy to cover with make-up and a fringe.

"Of course the tattoo on my face received a lot of negative reactions in general, not because of the location of the tattoo but because people seem to get upset when they see the word 'vegan', which is something that I have grown used to on a daily basis."

Bullen turned vegan a few years ago out of empathy for animals.

The tattoo artist, Jordan McCrea, copped so much flak for the bold work she deleted the image from Facebook and wrote a passionate post in defence.

"So f...ing what if someone wants to get a vegan tattoo on their face. I nearly didnt do this tattoo because I knew the reaction it would get but I thought f... what other people say, however I was correct and there have been people tagging their friends and having a good old laugh at the girl.

"Although I am not a vegan and will most likely never be one, I really respect her for fighting for what she believes in and being proud to show it off, and doing so without ONCE pushing/trying to 'convert' me the way everyone seems to thing all vegans do.

"She respected me and I showed her the same respect by doing the tattoo she really wanted and had done for a while, and making sure the whole process was vegan friendly, and listening to her talking about it."