Eyelid tattoos are nothing new, but they’re no longer worn by only the most hardcore collector of ink. While not yet mainstream, eyelid tattoos are surging in popularity with the shutters being a highly visible – yet, conversely invisible – place for those bold enough to have their peepers pricked to make, not so much…
Kim Rense is from a family of graphic designers and was one for three years before a tattoo shop surprised the Dutchman with the offer of an apprenticeship. The Hague-based artist, better-known as Papanatos, recalled to Parloir how while working as a graphic designer and attending art school in the evenings he regularly got tattooed,…
Steven Donohue is an art school drop-out who you’ll probably Learn To Hate for one reason or another – most probably because that’s what he calls himself on the tattoo mega-mall that is Instagram. The Yorkshireman recently caught Parloir’s attention with a chest-piece so flagrantly fantastic it got shared by Snake Pit, the anal-cavity of…
Emiel Steenhuizen isn’t your typical tattooist – in fact, he rebels against its clichés with the earnestness and orderliness of a gentleman. Starts his day at a time more suited to an office schmuck. Keeps records and provides debit, often undercharging out of sympathy, and leaves afternoons free to ponder. Most recently he published a…
Along with barbed wire, spiderwebs have long been the go-to filler for knees and elbows – or to play frame or canvas for more detailed imagery – but now fencing is never more than a scroll away on the Gram. Perfect as a gritty backdrop, or gateway to breakthrough, fencing can be rawly etched in…
Gleb Kirillov, better know on Instagram as Novocainerascal, hand-poked his palm last month with the lyrics from Ninh Inch Nail’s Hurt. Palm tattoos are notoriously painful and hand-poke tattoos take time. So Parloir wondered why the fuck Gleb did it. Was he a diehard Nails fan, or perhaps he got overcome by the version the…