My Dear Friends of Inked I do so when you start chewing you have you think oh nice I’m can I can tattoo and I tattoo myself but when you start you feel the pain it’s horrible it’s horrible I don’t can tattoo myself and feel the pain so no don’t tattoo yourself so I’m Fabian I’m from Germany I’m 37 years old and I’m really happy to hear.
I grew up in the north of Germany it’s near Bremen before I became a tattoo artist so I I worked in the office in this in the steel industry so they don’t like it to see all the tattoos so and now I’m in tether artist and I love tattoos so it changed my mind I really like it.
Yeah I don’t like to be an office worker so but I have the chance to to work in a tattoo shop in my hometown as a shop manager so and then I was in this circle you know you I was in the circle of the tattoo shops and the the tattoo artist and.
Yeah the guy asked me so you want to be a tattoo artist and I say yeah why not why not I really like it so I have a lot of tattoos so why not yeah and this was uh uh four years ago yeah it’s for the rest of my life so I don’t care about people you know it’s for me it’s I really clean with myself I.
Am open-minded so for me it doesn’t matter what the people say I really like to have art on my body so I don’t like my my skin so I really want to have all my body with the tattoo so I get my first tattoo it was a shiny symbol for my name yeah and I have no idea.
It’s right or wrong but I really like the the symbols and yeah but now I’ve covered it so I don’t like it anymore this was the one love I think this is here or here I have no idea I don’t think about it so I really want.
A face tattoo and I don’t think about it how it looks like and what the people say and what the people thinking so you know I have this this this mindset I make my own way yeah I make my own way doesn’t matter what the people say so the master just was the the last.
Tattoo on my face it called Serendipity it’s a happy word and I think in my life I have a lot of serendipity and this is the reason why I put it on my on my on my in my face with a mustache here all the script on your face is in yes of course.
So I so I’m I don’t like Germany so I don’t like the German language but I think the the the letter rings in English look very smooth and very nice and I think it looks better so when you when I did my first tattoo in the face the people noticed me and.
See oh it’s crazy so for for boy in Germany so in the north of Germany it was crazy to have tattoos on the face I see it every day so the people watch me and they speak a little bit with uh with friends and say oh you see this fully tattooed and yeah I noticed it but I don’t care when you’re tattooed and you’re on your.
Face or on your hands you’re the same person like before me it’s it doesn’t matter the people the people are tattooed or not tattooed so for me people is people you know I’m the same person with tattoos and without tattoos so I I don’t care so it doesn’t matter when I take a look in the mirror.
I I see the status all over my body but when I’m walking through the streets I don’t recognize that I have so many tattoos you know only when I take a look in the mirror I see but it feels like normal I really like it so I’m not nervous and I think it’s normal one for me yeah my future plans for tattooing so I.
Really want to to fill all of my body all the the space I have free so I have some space on the ribs I I heard it’s it’s a lot of pain so I don’t do now so I had a little bit space so on my ass and yeah on my legs but hopefully uh if I can tattoo it with and with all my body I can tattoo so.
I really I don’t have I don’t want to have a lot of skin you know I I really want to fill it with all the tattoos some small and one big one so the reason is so when you are heavily tattooed it feels wrong when you see when I see my my original skin so I really like the the to have all of.
Of my body with art for me it’s it’s like a picture you know and picture memories and yeah I don’t like my skin so I see the space I don’t wanna I wanna fill it of course yeah I maybe as soon as possible but I don’t like the packing so it doesn’t look like but I I don’t like the pain.
I think when I walk when everything is filled so I touch up or I I cover up some stuff some old stuff uh yeah I think you are never never finished with the tattoo yeah you never finish with your body it don’t make me frustrated so I keep going and I’m looking forward to.
Have there are so many ideas from from tattoo artists and some tattoo ideas you can do it on your body so I think no I’m not frustrated when I did it maybe finished or not finished yes of course sometimes I’m thinking about and say when I was younger and started chewing I.
Have to be and make a concept you know like the the the the the Instagram famous people you know like the Maori or the mandala stuff or something like and then I take a look in the mirror and say no it’s I’m I’m a good person so I think I like all my tattoos so sometimes I’m thinking about.
To make it otherwise so but I really like it
When Fabian Hellberg looks into the mirror and gazes at the few patches of his body without tattoos he only has one thought in mind—I must tattoo it. In this episode of Heavily Inked, Hellberg walks us through his tattoo journey, from his days working in a stuff office to his current life as a tattoo artist.
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