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Skin Deep 224
  • The Cover Model 224 - Sian
    Gracing the cover this issue – a somewhat shy, retiring young lady who goes by the name of Sian. Let’s have some fun and see just how shy and retiring she may be…
  • Amina - Bright Side Tattoo: The Snail Palace
    The focus has always been on animals when Amina Charai at Bright Side Tattoo in Copenhagen has drawn and tattooed. She herself has a tattoo of a snail that looks like a “yellow turd with an Evil Knievel helmet”, but, at...
  • Frank Sandoval - The Sixth Sense
    Sometimes in this game, you stumble across a tattooist who you can’t fail but dig deeper with. The following story comes out of a chance encounter (all my articles lately come out of chance encounters – maybe I should...
  • Cookie at The Ink Spot - Why So Serious?
    Simon Cooke, better known to the world as Cookie, needs to cheer down. In a world where most things are taken very seriously, he’s damn good fun to be around. More importantly for the ever-increasing line of people...
  • Horiyasu - The Perfectionist
    In the traditional downtown area of Tokyo, Asakusa, is the studio of one of Japan’s top traditional tattoo artists. Horiyasu’s work is nothing short of breathtaking – the compositional perfection of his work, the...
  • Celebrity Skin - Tatu Baby
    I could start this feature by telling you how Katherine ‘Tatu Baby’ Flores is totally fierce or how she’s unapologetically talented, but if you’ve ever seen her work or happened to catch her on Ink Master, you already...
  • Abril - Eyes Without a Face
    I might as well come straight out and confess all – I am head over heels in love with this artwork. That much will probably be very visible from the start, during the middle and also at the end. It happens. Not often,...
  • Tattoo Education: Bodies of Subversion: All About Eve
    In a new edition of her book Bodies of Subversion, Margot Mifflin traces the history of women and tattoos over the centuries, from sideshow freaks to modern artists. She took some time out to tell Skin Deep about the...
  • Moenchengladbach Tattoo Ink Explosion 4 2012
    Try to pronounce Moenchengladbach. Yes, I said Moen-chen-glad-bach! You might ask yourself where the heck that is? Well, it might not be the centre of our tattoo world, but it sure is the location of one of the finest...
  • Craigy Lee: Misty Mountain Hop - Brisbane
    It’s no secret of all the places I visited in Australia on my grand road trip in 2011 Brisbane was by far my favourite city. Maybe it’s the fact it doesn’t get much hype as its often overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne...
  • Behind Closed Doors 224 - Joseph Bergeron & Keith Who
    What started out as a virtual road trip to see what tattoo artists got up to in their down time, has turned into quite the little art collection. The variety of styles out there is quite something. If I had the leverage...
  • Paul Sweeney - 224: Ashes to Ashes...
    Funk to funky, the question is should you put death in your body?
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