What is different about your tattoo parlour as opposed to others locally?
We offer a totally bespoke and cus- tom design service. You won’t see tattoo flash on the walls or vast cata- logues of available designs. Instead we prefer to provide an individual and unique design for each and every client.
We always recommend an initial consultation where, over a cup of organic fresh coffee, we will chat through what a person likes and what they dislike and using mood boards we will often take things from everyday life and draw up a design that reflects them and their person- ality, more often than not, with a vintage twist!
Who or what inspires your work?
I love the vintage style and scene, especially old school sailor tattoos. Obvious names such as Cindy Ray and Sailor Jerry come to mind. The work of Angelique Houtkamp
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is phenomenal. For me her artwork captures everything that is vintage but with an extra flash of today - colours, faces - everything about it is amazing. She’s both an excellent artist and tattooist.
I love using primary colours in my work to give a vintage feel: reds, yellows and blues, and make a lot of use of the beautiful blood-wash sepia tones.
Tell us about some of the tattoos you have yourself. Each and every tattoo I have has a special meaning or significance for me. I have my husband and my daughter drawn on my arm, as well as having lots of burlesque inspired designs…oh and some vintage Kewpie dolls!
What is the most challenging tattoo you’ve done?
That would have to have been the seams down the back of my mother- in-law’s legs for her stockings design. It was so difficult getting them abso-
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