Alex666cold has been tattooing for 18 years, more than half his life. He started at 13 in Belarus, building his own machines from a small motor, a guitar string, and a gel pen barrel powered by a 9-volt battery. He sold them to friends around the block and used them to tattoo himself. Bold outlines were never his thing, so realism was the natural path. In 2013, he traveled to Tattoo Familia in Kraków to earn a certificate and ended up teaching the group he had enrolled in. The owner returned his fee and offered him a place in the studio, launching his professional career. Now based in Wrocław, he specializes in color realism and cover-ups, creating animals, monsters, film characters, and pieces packed with intricate detail. Teaching is the part he loves most. Through seminars and master classes, he helps artists understand how their tools actually work. That hands-on approach is exactly what he brings to the Revolution Pro Team. He found Revolution as a client, on his own skin, in Oxi's chair, and switched after one desperate second day on a difficult shoulder that ended at 6:30 p.m. instead of 2 a.m.