Harriet

Harriet spent her summers growing up by the Yorkshire seaside, which has greatly influenced her choice in getting nautical-themed tattoos. She also has a passion for history, which has led her to get various designs of historical themes and topics.

"There’s something about the colors. There is something almost like the playfulness of them all. Like they can be really playful, but also they have a lot of historical influence – which is really important to me as a lot of my tattoos are historical. American traditional uses lots of clors and lots of brightness, and because I am quite pale as well, the colours tend to stand out more. My thigh tattoos which must be at least 12 years old now, are still as bright as the day I got them. After I got that tattoo, I was like: oh my God, this is incredible – this is the style for me."

"I love the seaside, I love the sea, so American traditional and nautical themes made a lot of sense to me. So when I was looking at the classic American trad styles like mermaids, anchors, and pin-up girls, I started looking at those designs and being like: but how do I make them more like me? So my mermaid design, she's got silvery and has got a green tail - because I love the color green. But then in the middle of that tattoo, there's a lighthouse - it's lighthouse up in Whitby, which is next to Scarborough, which is where I spent all of my summer holidays when I was a kid."

"History is the thing I love the most. If I want a new tattoo and basically take an idea like: here's something I love - how do we make it a tattoo?. The white boar of York - the symbol of Richard III. It kind of combines the two places I've lived: Leicestershire and Yorkshire. Richard III was famously found buried under a car park in Leicester, where he'd been since the 16th Century after losing the battle of Bosworth. it felt like a good way to connect my two “home” counties".

"I've got half of the Titanic on each food. [My tattoo artist] drew up the ship, cut in two with an iceberg and they went on each food. As soon as I saw that design, I was like: yeah, that's it. The Titanic is one of the first things that got me into history, it's a core memory of my childhood, but also triggered this lifelong obsession with history."

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