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Skin Deep 205
  • Through the Looking Glass - Red Hot & Blue Tattoo
    Nestled on a quaint Edinburgh street, with its light blue façade, windows displaying flash-inspired posters and a carnival cutout of a foxy pin-up out front, Red Hot + Blue Tattoo may just be the most inviting shop you’ll ever set foot in.
  • Broken Girls Club - Hollie Bryant
    The woman of more hair colours than colours that actually exist, Hollie Bryant graces the cover of the mag this month. It’s been a long time since we last spoke, but by a twist of fate we hooked up at Tattoo Jam and subsequently afterwards when we...
  • Last Train to London - London Tattoo Convention
    It is hard to believe that this is only the seventh London Tattoo Convention. Many consider this convention to be the most important of the UK conventions, but whatever your opinion, it is certainly the one that gets the most media buzz.
  • An Eye Is Upon You - 205: Artificially Intelligent
    We just bought a new vacuum cleaner. Bear with me as it’s not just any old hoover. No, it’s not a deluxe, bag free, designer model… it’s a robot. That’s right, it cleans by itself.
  • Smallman Sydrome - 205
    Hello everybody, hope you’re all well. Over the past couple of months I’ve started doing a little bit of TV work for a station called Sports Tonight. This is exciting for two reasons: firstly, that my snaggle-toothed little face somehow makes it...
  • Quick-Fire Questions - Piotr Deadi Dedel
    Piotr Deadi Dedel started getting ink under people’s skin in the Spring of 2006. Five years on, he’s one of the most soulful and inspiring dark artists working in the world today.
  • A World of Lines - Colt Prehm
    We featured Colt Prehm in an artist feature of his own a few issues back, so when he came to us asking if we thought people would be interested in an article from him on the subject of better drawing, we didn’t have to think too long.
  • Animal Nitrate - Scott Olive
    Scott Olive. The name may be unfamiliar to some, but to others it will already be etched into the memory as somebody to nail down, just as soon as he sets foot on UK soil that is…
  • Always & Forever - Holly Azzara
    What started out as a regular interview turned into something of an autobiography for Holly. She was on such a roll, we figured we’d simply let her get on with it. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time Holly had pretty much written her own ticket.
  • The Sky Moves Sideways - George Campise
    After having worked too much for a couple of years, George Campise experienced a calmer time by the beach in Italy before returning to San Francisco. He went back to work at Seventh Son Tattoo before recently opening Warhorse Tattoo doing “the...
  • Letters - 205
    From this issue forward, instead of giving away a t-shirt for great letters, we'll be diving into the Lucky Bag and seeing what we've got lying around. So you might get a book... might get a DVD... who knows?! That's why it's called a Lucky Bag...
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock #12 - Craigy Lee
    The less time you have, the more it seems you have to get done, I’m sure this is something everyone can agree with no matter what you do in life. And as our time in Australia comes to a close I think of all the things I want to cram into my...
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Skin Deep 204
  • A Perfect Circle - Mike Toth
    There’s a fine line between purposefulness and obsession. Mike Toth, from Toth Art Collective, is straddling that line. As a kid he had to bandage his hands after receiving scabs from constantly washing his hand. As a tattooist he’s never satisfied...
  • Quick-Fire Questions - D-Grrr
    Working out of Carnevil – his very own ‘Cabinet de Tatouage’ – D-GRRR is one of the hottest tattoo artists working in France today, but to say his talent extends way beyond the needles is an understatement.
  • The Clown - Warren Speed
    Warren Speed is well known in the burlesque and freakshow world, having performed all round Europe with his high-energy brand of physical comedy, which usually ends in him revealing nipple tassles, followed by ass tassles…
  • Gypsy Road - The Italian Gentleman
    The Italian Gentleman, or Stef as he is better known to his friends, is one of the tribe of artists who have hit the road in recent years. Not just for the experience, nor for the added influence you can pick up. No, Stef is one of those artists who...
  • Every Day is a Winding Road - Takami
    Arriving to meet Takami at Mick Tomo’s Ruby Arts studio in York, where he’s working in a guest spot, everything is as you’d expect it to be: a busy day in Mick’s well-appointed shop, young guy getting his first tattoo necking Coke like it’s a potion...
  • An Eye Is Upon You - 204: Regrets, I've Had A Few, But Then Again...
    Is there a tattooed person on that planet that hasn’t heard the phrase, “you’ll regret that when you are older” at least once?
  • La Belle Province - Montreal Art Expo 2011
    For many Montrealers, September is synonymous with the last chance of the year to be a social butterfly before temperatures plummet and freezing off body parts you didn’t even know you had becomes a harsh reality. Festivals and exhibitions of all...
  • The Lone Gunmen - Inspirations Tattoo Studio, Leeds
    One of the things that I love most about visiting studios and meeting tattooists is hearing how they got into the world of tattooing. For some reason, I always approach the subject thinking I have heard it all before and then I meet a new artist and...
  • Smallman Sydrome - 204
    One man's obsession with the sillier side of tattooing...
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock #11 - Craigy Lee
    The call of Sydney with its legendary status among all the world’s great cities was never too far away on this road trip. Finally, Craigy Lee arrives in the promised land – and finds himself amongst a metropolis of polar oppositesThe call of Sydney...
  • Think! - 204: Open All Hours
    We know for a fact that not only collectors and fans read Skin Deep, but also those who work relentlessly hard at surviving in these trying business times. So this issue, we thought we’d take some time out to say a few words on what it takes to run...
  • The Eyes of a Stranger - Ian Robert McKown
    The more and more I delve into the tattoo world, the more I am inspired by the artists out there plying their trade. We aren’t talking about guys and girls who can just copy stencils, or colour in pictures on skin; we are talking about genuine...
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Skin Deep 203
  • Don't Blink - Ivana Belakova
    If tattooists were to pass down ten commandments to their clients, surely one of them would have to be ‘thou shalt bloody well sit still’. We all know how important that part is, but practising what you preach is always tricky, and for Ivana...
  • After The Morning... - NOON
    Flip to ‘noon’ in a dictionary and you will find it defined as ‘the highest, brightest or finest point or part’,which seems surprisingly fitting for French artist NOON. Although the man himself won’t reveal what’s behind the nickname, one gets a...
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock #10 - Craigy Lee
    After driving nearly 30,000km around Australia, the inevitable has finally happened we hit a kangaroo whilst driving at 7pm on a Friday night...
  • Smallman Sydrome - 203
    So then, I’m back from Edinburgh after a month of telling people all about my tattoos. If you were one of the many Skin Deep readers that came along to see me then thank you very much – was lovely to have you come along and listen to my rantings.
  • A World Apart - 6th Krakow Tattoofest
    In something of a coup, this issue we had the opportunity to get behind the scenes of the 6th Krakow Tattoofest with a great insiders report from the man who drives the car year after year – Aleksandra Skoczylas. Enjoy!
  • The Devil's in the Details - Cock a Snook, Newcastle
    Wall-to-wall oddities leave you with the feeling that you’ve entered into the realm of an eccentric collector of all things weird, rather than a tattoo studio, but then Cock A Snook is not your average tattoo studio…
  • Make Art, Not War - Alex Gross
    Alex Gross is one of those painters who creates other worlds within his paintings. Strange worlds in which you are likely to find a modern day Jesus, preaching before a Prada billboard, with subtle digs at our obsession with technology… could you...
  • Think! 203 - Who Watches the Watchmen?
    It’s a Friday night and you’ve decided to head out for dinner with some friends. None of you are quite certain of exactly what you’re in the mood for, so you decide to peruse the menus of various locations along a popular strip of restaurants.
  • Nick Chaboya
    He was about to become an art teacher when when he realised the travel potential of being a tattoo artist. Today Nick Chaboya works in one of San Francisco’s most respectable studios, Seventh Son Tattoo but he hasn’t closed the door on teaching just...
  • The Traveller - Jens Svensson
    What drives 23-year-old Jens Svensson to repeatedly make the 400-mile round trip to get tattooed by the same artist? Emil Edge is a big part of the reason, but there’s more...
  • An Eye Is Upon You - 203: Secret Signs
    Hands up if you’ve ever hidden your tattoo? Maybe you’ve worn long sleeves to an interview or donned a high necked shirt for dinner with your partners parents? Perhaps you’ve avoided showing your own family your newly acquired ink, opting for a...
  • From Vancouver With Love - Liquid Amber Tattoo
    It’s not every day one hears of a backpacking trip across Europe inspiring a complete career change and the founding of a tattoo shop – and it’s even less often one comes across a successful all-female shop. It doesn’t take long to realize Luvia...
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