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Today I tattooed a number on a girl's neck. When she told me what it meant — I quit my job. 🤯 If you don't know me — my name's Steve Tremblay and I've been tattooing here in London for six and a half years. I've heard all kinds of stories in this chair. But what happened today is something else entirely. A client walks into the studio — a completely normal girl, Emily. She tilts her head to the side and says: “Bro, give me Zeus on my neck. Literally him — that old guy from Gates of Olympus.” I start laughing. I ask her straight up: “You that obsessed with slots? Seriously? You want to tattoo a monument to the place where your whole paycheck disappears?” But she doesn't laugh at all. She looks at me completely seriously and tells me a story that genuinely gave me goosebumps. She says no, she's not addicted to gambling. She used to play just for fun — a few spins here and there. Then her life completely fell apart. She lost her job. Her Universal Credit had run out. Debt collectors started calling every day about an overdraft with her bank that she couldn't afford to cover. Her boyfriend had just left her. She'd applied for help with her rent, but was told she'd have to wait several weeks. That same week, she received a letter from HMRC about unpaid taxes. She was completely at rock bottom. Drowning in problems. And then one night, right in the middle of all that chaos, she opened that app… And hit an absolutely insane win. It was big enough for her to clear all her debts and finally get herself out of that hole. She told me Zeus was a symbol of a second chance for her. That's why she wanted him permanently on her skin. I open the sketch on my iPad. Zeus. Lightning bolts. The whole thing. And underneath him — a number: **£24,958** I look at her. “What does that number mean?” She smiles. “That's exactly how much I won that night.” For a few seconds, I don't say anything. I just stare at the sketch. Then I start tattooing. While I was worki
