Tattoo Lounge Helsinki / Resident Artists

Elena Mignani

📍 Rome, Italy

Elena speaks: English, Italian

Elena discovered the passion for drawing during her career, which began in high school, when she decided to attend the School of Art. She still did not know where this love would lead her. She continued her studies by attending the International School of Comics in Rome and subsequently a Master in Digital Illustration in Milan.

And that is when she found a new and original way of expressing art: through her tattoos.
Therefore she decides that she will not improvise, but will study again, attending the Tattoo and Piercing Course in Rome, which provided her with the basics of dermatology and hygiene, fundamental in this profession. She after moved to England to progress her career and then to Finland where she has the chance to cultivate her very own style.

Passionate about symbolism and the Gothic architecture, Elena created her unique style of Neotraditional by combining the classical subjects with elements coming from that specific architecture style, creating a stunning final result that gives a darker vibe to the classic Neotraditional.

Elisa Berthet

📍 Toulon, France

Elisa speaks: English, French

Elisa has always been passionate about tattooing. She’s been around tattoo studios and involved in the industry since she was 14. With this background, she then decided to grab a tattoo machine and start tattooing herself.

Starting from the regular blackwork she then got interest in Micro Realism, where the main subjects are portraits, and small pictures representing panoramas or movie frames. Her interest moved towards recreating the classic Renaissance paintings and scenes taken directly from movies.

Aliki Raftaki

📍 Athens, Greece

Aliki speaks: English, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German

Aliki specialises in colourful Neotradional tattoos with a special preference to tattooing shiny metallic textures like chrome and gold. Her source of inspiration is nature, fantasy, sci-fi and iconic heavy metal artworks.

She started her tattoo career in 2015 in Athens where she finished her apprenticeship and she then moved to Finland to pursue her dream of becoming a tattoo artist.

Throughout the years she has worked in conventions around Finland, attended tattoo seminars and done guest spots around Europe, combining her love for tattooing with her love for travelling.

Sasha Akulov

📍 Tomsk, Siberia

Sasha speaks: English, Russian

Sasha started his tattoo career in Russia where he started his apprenticeship in 2015 in a studio located in Tomsk, Siberia. He then moved to the big capital to open his very own tattoo shop along with his friends, creating a Tattoo Collective of Artists.

During all these years in the field, he attended and won many conventions, giving him the chance to progress his career as tattoo artist and to develop a unique style that it’s now easily recognisable thank to its unique palette and drawing technique. 

Noora Perälä

📍 Seinäjoki, Finland

Noora speaks: Finnish, English

Noora’s art career began in Tornio, Lapin AMK University of Applied Sciences, where she studied Digital Art and got her Bachelor’s Degree from. After graduation she applied to a tattooing course and then got an apprenticeship at a tattoo studio where she was working as an apprentice for one year. She opened her own studio in Oulu called Manala Tattoo with two of her colleagues and shared a roof with them for three years.

During her time at Manala Tattoo Noora found an interest in broadening her horizons by visiting different studios all around Finland, which is how she also ended up finding Tattoo Lounge and finding her home there.

Other than her several visits at fellow studios Noora also feels importance in taking part in the Finnish tattooing community in other ways as well, mainly by being an active member of FTAA, the Finnish Tattoo Artist Association.