by Abigail Bardwell


Dido Walstra
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Tattoo Artist Dido Walstra

As she studied Molecular Biology in Berlin, Dido Walstra tattooed on her downtime. “I was never known as a tattoo artist,” she said. “I was known as the student who also did tattoos.” While working on her thesis, Walstra decided that she wanted to pull out of her studies and put all of her effort in what made her the happiest: tattooing. “I realized that I couldn’t do both well. I had to choose one or the other.” She was invited to be a guest artist at Tatau Obscur, one of Berlin’s finest tattoo galleries. Walstra is planning on becoming a “one-woman business.”