Tattooists Talk About All the COVID Tattoos They’ve Been Doing

Tattoos mirror feelings, and this year everyone has been feeling much the same: scared, stir-crazy, and thoroughly sick of COVID. For tattoo artists, this has resulted in a small wave of people requesting COVID-themed tattoos—either in the form of people wearing face masks, or just cartoon renderings of the virus itself.

We wanted to get an idea of how often these requests are coming through, so we emailed a bunch of tattoo artists from around the world. They each gave us a short interview on how their art has imitated life, and sent us a photo of their proudest COVID-themed ink to date.

Rami “Ramo” Rosvall, Finland
IG: @ramotattoo
Tattooing for 14 years

VICE: How many COVID tattoo requests have you…