Be careful about how you remove that tattoo
YOU’LL like this one.” Raul Palomino is showing me his portfolio of cover-up work. In the first photo the customer, a man, has a name tattooed across his shoulders. The photos that follow show Raul’s painstaking work in covering the name with a beautiful Japanese-style tattoo of a Koi carp and white-crested waves.
“The name was his son’s. He got that tattoo and then two years later, he discovered he’s not the father.” Raul shakes his head, smiling. Having had the Smiley Dogg tattoo studio in Cork’s North Main St for ten years, and with business booming as the vogue for tattoos shows no sign of abating, Raul has many such inky tales of regret to share.
