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Skin Deep 211
  • Lost Prohpet - Mike Moses
    Spending years immersed in the tattoo industry can put anyone in danger of monotony and it takes a special someone to restore faith. Tattoo prophet, anyone? Equipped with crazy talent and uncanny entertainment value,...
  • The Beast Within - Robear of NY Ink
    A fine arts student, licensed New York real estate agent, gay rights activist and cancer survivor, NY Ink’s floor manager is a man of many facets. Maybe that’s why he needs two names – RoBear and RoBeast.
  • The Fetishist - Nina Kate
    On a sunny day in late March, I had the pleasure of chatting with Nina Kate. As we were talking, she was working on a pair of leggings for a hair show she had coming up at the weekend in Manchester. No stranger to...
  • The Bug Lady - Jessa Huebing-Reitinger
    Jessa Huebing-Reitinger was born in Wisconsin in 1971. At the age of nine, she moved to Florida and began painting using soft pastels. Two years later and she had sold her first commission and become a professional...
  • Celebrity Skin: James Ellington
    Talent is a wily beast and can be tricky to pin down. Sometimes you can go years wondering what it is you’re good at; some of us might even feel we haven’t worked it out yet. Not James Ellington. He caught up with his...
  • Toys in the Attic - Frank Kozik
    In every city, around every corner, talented folks with interesting tattoos and compelling stories to accompany them are just waiting to be pestered by Skin Deep staffers. Designer toy revolutionary Frank Kozik is no...
  • Quick-Fire Questions: Lasse Sjoroos
    A ‘jail dude’ inspired Lasse Sjöroos at Individual Ink in Turku, Finland, to build his own tattoo machine. His first tattoo was a horrible tribal star that looked more like a ninja star, but 16 years later he’s one of...
  • Sydney Tattoo & Body Art Expo 2012
    The 4th Sydney Tattoo and Body Art Expo were held on the weekend of March 9-11 at Olympic park, Sydney, Australia. The Expo was held over three amazingly packed days – something was happening on the main stage the whole...
  • East of Eden - Craigy Lee
    It’s pretty hard slipping back into a normal way of life after travelling for the last year-and-a-half. I hadn’t even unpacked my bag before I decided I wouldn’t be stopping for long…
  • Let The Dead Speak - Paul Koudounaris
    Enter if you will into this peculiar homage Paul Koudounaris gives to the Grim Reaper with his erudite and amazingly illustrated book, The Empire of Death…
  • First Blood 211 - The Big Show
    Continuing our series of short articles for those new to the tattoo scene.
  • Paul Sweeney - 211: Hot in the City
    Yep, that’s right, I’m up to my old tricks again, using catchy pop titles to lure you into what will inevitably become another random stream of consciousness, pulled from the depths of obscurity, loosely held together...
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