Skin Deep - Issue 308

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TALES FROM THE CITY: Following on from our previous interview with Dennis Cockell, the boss figured it
would be interesting to spend the rest of the afternoon loitering around Diamond Jacks in Soho to see what made it tick - what kind of people came in, what they asked for, how clued in they were...

DIG DEEP

Using a tattoo machine as an etching tool? It needed the boiling imagination of a punk-rocker to come out with such a crazy idea. Dr Lulu doesn’t miss a beat and is already digging deep into his own etching style

7 mins

THE CREEKMAN

Kevin Creekman is a prime example of the massive impact tattoos can have on someone’s life. Following a struggle with weight and self acceptance that saw him drop to nearly half his size in just one year, Creekman embarked on an epic tattoo journey that involved getting a full bodysuit. During the process, which was completed two years ago, the ink not only changed him on the outside, but it also helped him find strength and self-love, impacting him at his very core

6 mins

HOLD THE LINE

The skull has come to mean many things to many people; often as an icon of death, its image operates at a deeply personal and symbolic level. It has a strong emotional pull for it starkly reveals what is typically hidden from view—our biological architecture. Yet it is also a highly reused repetitive image, one that is found in many contemporary cultural artefacts, from movies, comics, medical textbooks, video games, and beyond

9 mins

The SERPENTS of BIENVILLE SEAN HERMAN'S TRANSFORMATIVE TATTOO

Years ago I found myself in a small shop in Montclair, New Jersey. Sheets

8 mins

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Skin Deep Magazine Description:

Skin Deep has long been the UK’s best selling tattoo magazine - and just because we're having fun for 13 issues a year (that's once every 4 weeks) doesn't mean we're not taking it very seriously indeed.
Each issue we publish profiles, interviews and features with the leading tattooists and tattoo artists working in the world today together with exciting new talent. Alongside of this, we focus on the tattoo lifestyle and all it contains, coverage from the international convention scene, art features from those who embrace the tattoo ethic or find inspiration within it, reader profiles, news, reviews, competitions, letters and every issue also comes with a free supplement.