Hence, I grabbed my brother Chris, put a needle and cork in his hand and shouted at him (as my photo tattoo will tell you, I do a lot of that) to stick it through my ear. Fifteen seconds later, a gleaming stud winked from my lobe. It wasn’t long before I’d graduated to long dangly (stop sniggering) things  basically the wilder the better.

Some people think long and hard before making any kind of decision pondering, planning and just generally taking free tattoo picture their time. But not me. I’m more of a hit them with a rubber stamp and yell next, kind of guy.

As your magazine, we are greatly interested to hear what you have to tell us about the life you lead and kanji what enticed you to get pierced or tattooed. To get the ball rolling, I’ll share with you my experience of becoming a pierced person.

His accolade to date is winning first prize in the first magazines contest a couple of years ago, but was unable to participate last year, as he couldn’t find any artwork large enough…

Roff has plans to do some more work abroad and designer, but fortunately for us, he is not thinking about moving away from Europe completely. The country would be a duller place without him and his art.

Part of the shop is taken by a leather workshop. Ricky also makes incredible free tattoo catalogs now and then as a hobby. One jacket may well take up to half a year to complete.

Ricky tattooed me and his wife hers as a birthday present book and we are planning to add bits and pieces to mine. We talk about that at length.

About half of his work is made up of new designs, mostly developed together with the customer, from their original idea. The rest is mainly made up of variations on traditional flash designs, and compositions based on them. We talked a bit about Finland’s old artists and their news.

The shop is immaculate, and brilliantly decorated an altogether fascinating piece of real estate. We hope to tell more about it in future issues. Robert was one of the first artists in Finland to be registered with the armband tattoo.

Rob has certainly been around… in ‘91 he worked in Australia and travelled widely in The States, meeting the local artists and visiting conventions. Upon his return to Finland, he worked in a friend’s back room for a while, before finally opening a shop of his own, two years ago, at tattoo girl.