We were lucky to catch up with Karin Laniado recently and have shared our conversation below.

Karin, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

As an artist, the thing that makes me happiest and makes me feel appreciated is: to cover a tattoo that the client is not satisfied with as well as scars. It makes me happy to make the clients feel better in their own skin.

Recently got a tattoo on a hand full of self-harm scars, the satisfaction I felt when the client had tears of joy, and so happy with the roses who now “grew” from her scars.
Thanks to the tattoo, she feels much more comfortable wearing a short sleeve shirt without being judged or asked what she has been through in life.
The difficult story behind the scars definitely made me feel that I am in the right profession.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Art has always been a part of my life, I always drew as a child. From the age of 12 I started doing eyebrows with thread for clients and from there I developed towards cosmetics and care where I was involved in facial treatments, eyebrow design, nail paintings, professional and artistic makeup and permanent makeup for over 18 years, but tattoos did not cross my imagination, since I didn’t think I was good enough for such a profession and such a responsibility .

But, the tattoos changed my life.

I was born with a huge birthmark all over my stomach and I hated my body for so many years, I always hid, hid and was ashamed of myself and my body. At the age of 24 I decided to get a tattoo on it.
And since then, my life has changed for the better.
My self-confidence increased and I began to remove layers of myself and discover the world.
After 18 years in the care field, at the age of 30 I decided to take the art one step further and retrain as a
TATTOO ARTIST.
So I signed up for painting, art, seminars and everything that allowed me to reach a level of readiness that I could make a tattoo on real skin.
It took me 3 years.
I never stopped learning, in this field there is always something to improve. What differentiates me from other tattooists that Im very direct and honest with my clients,
my experience in working on skin,
the knowledge of skin diseases,
the recognition of the anatomy and chemistry of the skin and how it reacts to substances,
the knowledge of anatomy and the flow of the body,
my insecurity due to my birthmark and how the tattoo changed my life. and the final goal,
Helping my clients feel much better about themselves and their skin.

As part of my desire to feel at peace with myself, I was modeling for a project called “No Filters Project” by @arthurfilmmaker, in which women are photographed as they are, without any filters and without differences in color, weight or shape In order to raise awareness that every person is beautiful no matter who they are.

Im developing a style called neo realism which combined two of the styles I love the most:
NEO TRADITIONAL & REALISM
I love creating my own art,
Design Especially for each client,
doing cover ups,
Covering up scars exc..

INSTAGRAM:
@karin.laniado
@kinkit.tattoos

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E-MAIL:
[email protected]

FACEBOOK: kinkit.tattoos

TIKTOK: kinkit.tattoos

WEBSITE: https://kinkit.myportfolio.com/

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

My goal is to teach beginning tattooers how to work correctly on the skin. Raise awareness about a positive body image and teach how to work with the flow of the body, and curves.
And eventually to know that I left my fingerprint in this journey.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I learned the hard way that there are no shortcuts, to reach the goal you have to work hard. When I was little, I always knew how to draw and unfortunately I took it for granted.
I am a very perfectionist and many times I started to draw something, and because I wasn’t satisfied enough I would just stop drawing and throw the drawing away.
Until at a certain point I stopped drawing completely.
I was sure it would come back to me in one second.
And I was very wrong!
Having a talent for drawing does not mean you should stop practicing. When I decided to tattoo and signed up for painting studies, I felt that there was a huge gap between what I knew before and what I started learning and I literally started learning everything from scratch.
I learned that there is no such thing as a bad drawing, and if I started something and didn’t like it, it’s just part of the process, and the process is actually the most important.
Because in the process I learn and develop.
It is very important for me to keep training and strive for the best because that’s the only way I improve myself all the lime.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://kinkit.myportfolio.com/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/karin.laniado?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kinkit-2141124232766178/
• Other: E-mail: [email protected] Instagram: @kinkit.tattoos @karin.laniado TikTok: @kinkit.tattoos

Image Credits
Arthur Abramov @arthurfilmmaker for @nofiltersproject