London Ink - Neck Tattoo

" Nikole Lowe is a rock and roll wild child, who was renowned for her Japanese style. "

" I wanted to be the best of everything, but I just wanted to be one of the boys and tattoo a lot in. Just saying to be nice and black and bold."

" If you want a tattoo and stay in the male industry, you have to take a lot of flat and you have to become quite hard, quite quick."

" I think Nikole has got a huge potential, but she's not yet top ten so----"

" Nikole's first customer, Alice, has been causing her headache. She's been asked to design a controversial neck tattoo."

" I quite like the shape in the front."

" Yeah, I know. You can [unk]"

" Keep some of the shape in the front."

" Yeah."

" And go from there."

" Cool."

" She decides to carefully draw the design on free-hand."

" Doing the neck is a lot harder compared to like, say arm or something like that. The skin is a lot different. It's kinda like chicken, chickeny skin or something. So, it's a lot softer and it moves around a lot."

" This isn't the first time Nikole has tattooed Alice."

" Just over 2 years ago, she did my back and it's amazing, and then it just inspired me to kind of do what I always really wanted to do which was get loads of tattoos. And I intend to just do whatever Nikole wants to do `cause I have no imagination and she's got all imagination. And I think she's so brilliant and I will let her do whatever she wanted. I think she's that good."

" Your mom will be so pleased with me."

" How does that feel?"

" Nice."