Valerie Vargas

Valerie is one of the owners of Modern Classic tattoo and has been tattooing for over 18 years alongside her husband, co-owner Stewart Robson. Valerie specialises in traditional tattooing, both in colour and black and grey.

She has many loyal clients as well as celebrity ones such as Rihanna, Donald Glover, Bryan Tyree Henry and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. She has also featured in Vice’s Tattoo Age docuseries, alongside tattoo greats such as Grime, Mike Rubendall, Chris Garver, Dr Woo & Ed Hardy. She also enjoys working tattoo conventions all over the world and has previously worked the prestigious London tattoo convention and Bay Area convention in San Francisco.

She enjoys large scale work such as backpieces and sleeves but will still make time for smaller but fun designs when possible. Valerie likes to tattoo large intricate designs that flow with the body and isn’t afraid of cover-ups being included in such designs. Reach out if you want a custom design in her signature style.