June, 2019
As you may have previously seen on the blog Chris had the pleasure of tattooing actress Lena Headey. Lena is an actress known to millions across the globe as Cersei Lannister from hit HBO series Game of Thrones as well as starring in feature films such as The Purge, 300 and Dredd. Since tattooing Lena…
December, 2017
Welcome to the new Snake & Tiger website, we hope you enjoy it. Over the next few weeks we’ll be adding even more content such as the latest tattoos we’ve done in the shop to the relevant Gallery sections and hopefully lots more blog posts for the future. Stay tuned!
October, 2017
Now, we’ve tattooed celebrities before, but at Snake & Tiger Tattoo we can be trusted to be extremely discreet and would never publicise anything that someone in the public eye did not want on social media. But when said famous person posts it on their own Instagram, and tags you and your shop then it’s…
August, 2017
Leeds has always been a hotspot of awesome creativity, and even in the (almost) two years since I opened my shop Snake & Tiger (where does the time go?), some brilliant new tattoo artists have emerged alongside the experienced hands that have earned their reputations over many years of top quality work. “Leeds is home…
August, 2016
Earlier this year, I was invited, along with my business partner at Snake & Tiger Tattoo, Gareth Miller to Fred Aldous to paint a canvas for them, live. Fred Aldous is an awesome, independent craft shop, that’s been going in Manchester since 1886. They opened their second store, in Leeds, just last year and since…
July, 2016
We do get the odd famous face in Snake & Tiger, the shop I own with Gareth Miller in Leeds (Thornton’s Arcade to be precise). Obviously we are the absolute soul of discretion and try not to dish the Celebrity Juice… though we do sometimes get mementoes. Just the other day, local Leeds boy, TV…
July, 2016
Colouring in for adults has been a thing for a while now. But who wants to spend hours colouring in floral wallpaper patterns when you could be doing something FAR more cool? I’m pleased to say that the Old School Tattoo Colouring book, a collaboration between myself and Custom Plugs, is now out and available…
July, 2016
While it’s fairly true that the world of print has definitely been overshadowed by digital, there’s still nothing quite like flicking through a real, illustrated book. The World Atlas of Tattoo was published last autumn and is a beautifully printed, heavyweight hardback book, featuring the work of just 100 of the world’s best tattoo artists…