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Gary Chase has that kind of infectious laugh that can light up a room. He is also a professional musician and dedicated tattooist. Yayo met up with Gary to talk all things ink and find out how social media has strengthened the industry.
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Yayo is quite probably the best tattoo aftercare brand on the market. Not only does the company produce top notch products it also nurtures top notch artists. Josh Jeffery is fast becoming one of the UK's go to men for stunning, fine art tattoos. Matt Haddon-Reichardt hooked up with josh to talk tattoos, family and why Yayo is the best of the best.
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The tattoo industry isn't a community, its a family. Shining examples of this family spirit can be found at the Old Smithy Tattoo Parlour in the picturesque town of Leek, Staffordshire. Yayo sent flash virgin Matt Haddon-Reichardt over to Leek to talk to the staff at Old Smithy about the fantastic charity work they are doing.
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Mattias Andersson is one of Scandinavia's finest neo traditional tattooists. So good in fact that unscrupulous artists go to the effort of ripping off his designs. Yayo sent out resident news hound Matt Haddon-Reichardt to talk to Mattias and find out the price artists pay for having their work stolen.
Today tattooing is a respectable profession but not so long ago it had a very different reputation. Tattoo studios were often the front for biker gangs and organised crime to launder their ill gotten gains. Yayo undercover journalist Matt Haddon-Reichardt met up with his old biker contact Dave to get the inside story on tattooing's criminal past.
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