When Lauren Hollyoak got her first tattoo her mum was so angry she asked: “Who will marry you now?” “I was 16 and it was a seahorse on my back,” she laughs. “I smarty answered mum back that I would marry a tattoo artist.” Incredibly, a decade later, she did exactly that. In 2004, not long after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami that wreaked havoc across South-East Asia, Lauren, a diving instructor, had travelled to the island of Koh Phi Phi off Thailand s Andaman Coast as a volunteer to help with clean-up efforts. There, she met Keng Timsuwan, who had been working on the island as a tattooist.