Hey you, if u need to get in contact with me please call me or send some email 
I work in multiple places and if u send mail or call to all of the studios, info might not get to me….we are all busy bees, so it is more simple if you contact straight to me.
bonafidehki@gmail.com
+358442814230
Next week Hamme…..can’t wait!
Hey people! it’s been awhile and it will be from this post on I have news for you guys: i changed a location toRUNEBERGINKATU 8A 5 after the Brighton convention . you can reach me by phone +358442814230 or from my email : bonafidehki@gmail.com …….about the work space, I share it with another tattooer and it is lovely. It is a back room of Bound tattoo owned by Jenni and it’s small and peaceful and lovely, we share it , but i do not work under Bound, i have my own lil bonafide thing going on Thanks for the room Jenni!!
I am not departing from Tatuata completely and i love the guys to death, Tatuata for life!!!
All the guys are awesome -every single one of them -and super good to be around with,but i need my own space for a while…..and referring to this need of my own space : this year i am not traveling or guest spotting as much as i used to last year, cause to be true to you – i had the most horrendous divorce and i got cancer (surgery went well,not dying now!,start breathing again ya’ll) and i just needed a brake from everything. As you can see, i have not been as social as i used to be and now all of my energy goes to handling my clients in the best way that i can and getting my shit together, so no blogging or whatever that i used to find time for. I HOPE you understand <3 i am feeling positive and happy, but i just do not have the time to do this blogging thing right now cause actually it takes pretty much from you…, i will get back with it as soon as i get everything sorted and back to normal in my real life
I am pretty much booked for the next couple of months and after that i have couple of weeks open in june and then i am having a summer holiday. where, that i don’t know. I have gotten few inquiries about do i take new clients, and yes i take, but if it is a big project, it might take a while to get started,soooooo be patient with me , i love you all.
Leena
oh and a few photos of my recent stuff…
was amazing! One of my favorite conventions e-v-e-r! I do not know was it about the general atmosphere or just the fact that the convention was so well organized, but i felt great during the whole weekend there,so thank you everybody who made it happen, special thanks to Woody for all the help and well…everything:)
A night before heading to England was a hot mess, i started packing late and lost my portfolio and sketches….i usually am pretty good with papers and stuff , but this time it seemed that the packing was too much for me, so night before the flight i was running with scissors…
I splitted my booth with Hexa from Tampere and can’t once again think of a better booth mate, cause everything was super nice.
Brighton convention has a genuine, unique feeling in it. I can’t explain it, you have to go there next year and feel it for yourself. It is a experience you don’t want to miss out…just saying…here is couple of photos i took from there, i was working so there ain’t so many of them, sorry about it
oh and you’re here for the tattoos, right…so i did few matryoshka dolls to a perfect couple and it was fuuuuuuuuunnnN!
and on sunday i had a bit of bad luck, cause my power unit broke down, or something weird. i went to buy new stuff from the traders and tried to make it work, but we did not get it to function, so i waited hexa to finish his work and borrowed his stuff, so i could do couple of roses to one super nice guy and that was all i had time to work on sunday 
i had so much fun with those roses that it didn’t matter anyway. Million thanks to Hexa for loaning me his stuff and to Mark for having the patience to wait with me and Brighton we well meet again next year for sure!!!!
Things at Tatuata are going great! AWESOME artists coming and going all the time. It is amazing to see them in work and i feel really really good of being able to meet so much so great people. El Monga and Kike Bugni are coming next to the shop in 11.12-18.12.
Monga
Kike
And in january Diego Brandi will be here too!
You can get the info of the appointments for these guys by calling straight to tatuata! (040 5343095) Book fast,cause there is not many spots left!
And about this calling thing….I have gotten a couple of calls to the shop myself and i would like to ask from you guys that do not call for me,please. I am always drawing, tattooing, consulting or washing my stuff ,so the call you make is just gonna bother other people than me cause that is not my number. It is the shops number.
If u have a piece in prog., you have my personal number, if u don’t, you do not need it.
contact me via email ( bonafidehki@gmail.com )
I would like to point out that i do not mean to be diva or rude or anything like that. I just try to manage my things so that i would be able to give 120% of my attention to the customer who is on my hands at the moment. I am pretty sure that you would not like me to be talking about another projects and or sketching them when you have your own personal appointment,so please respect other peoples appointments too and we can all relax about it. I WILL answer to all as soon as i have the time to do so.
….And yes i want to do your tattoo too Please send me some reference photos and a few lines about the general idea of what you would like to get tattooed and i am sure we will figure something out Can’t wait to meet you
with love Leena
Hey! it has been a while since i wrote here, there has been stuff in my personal life that has gotten my attention and i have kept myself super busy with those things and i will not be able to blog on full before next year, so sorry for that.
I just got back from berlin convention that was super good as always! met lots of good friends and a few new ones to too. I did couple tattoos there and just chilled out the rest of the weekend in good company.
The lineup from Finland at the convention was Ulla and Roni from Damnation ink , Mikko Inksanity from Precious tattoo Tampere , me Bonafide at Tatuata and Lasse Sjöroos From Individual ink. Lasse is not in the picture, but here is the rest of the crew.
Berlin is so great. The christmas markets are open again and there are everything christmas related stuff you could ask for and a bit more to it. On thursday me and mikko wondered on the markets and enjoyed the place, we even met this donkey who was really nice. Grumpy, but still nice
AND i love these Berlin bears!!!! expression on his face is awesome… I’ll be doing a guest spot in berlin in june or july, but i’ll have to confirm it first and i’ll post the dates and place here as soon as i get them Love you all and hope to post some news a bit faster next time, hope you are all well!
i started to work on this Optimus prime a while ago. I wanted to share the stencil with you and hope to get to post a picture of the healed ready one some day:)
oh yeah i have been blaming myself for not been able to blog as much as i am suppose to,but hey it happens…i have been busy doing the thing i love
i was in sweden as i told you and it was amazing as it always is. Stockholm inkbash is one of the greatest conventions ever. So many good tattooers and the general atmosphere there is more than nice. I met tons of great people and i am grateful of every piece of knowledge i learned during that trip and believe me when i say i learned a lot.
After coming back in helsinki i did a guest spot at bound tattoo to see my friend Jenni and her new shop. It was super nice and we had a good old girls week:) lots of laughs and some nice tattoos. One of them was this weird thing that was super nice to do and that was impossible to take a foto of:) i really liked being there and i am going back in december.
I also started to work on my first ever backpiece to this super trooper girl who wanted a back full of dinosaurs! Can’t wait to get my hands on this piece again.It was hard for me to plan something this big, probably because i have not done nothing like it before, but it was fun when i got the hang of it…like i said, can not wait to continue it.
Last sunday my husband, Luna the mastiff and me started our journey to the countryside where we went to see some relatives and i did a guest spot at Tino’s tattoo at Kuopio. The crew of that shop is super nice and it is the best tattoo shop there is in that part of our country. Check them out. I will do another guest spot in there at somepoint we did not lock the dates,but at somepoint
The lotus is in the neck of Henni. She is the piercer at the shop. Alice in wonderland piece was also done there and it was fun as hell and it was the first tattoo of the girl who took it. (Brave!) Scissors and rose are on one hairdresser from the same city and that is about the amount photos i took from that place.The shop was awesome and one of the finest tattooshops i have seen…..Check the place out if you are in that area!
On thursday morning i landed on frankfurt and found my way in to mainz by train. Super pretty place and i loved it so! Here is few pictures of the place. Everything was perfect there and super big thanks to my dear friend Sergey for being such a cool guy he is and to Tommy and the convention team to making the convention possible. Gotta love the germany will be back in december.Next weekend Sweden…
