MicaDraws on skin. Stays under it.

Mica is a 23-year-old genderfluid tattoo artist working out of a small studio in Vila Madalena, Sao Paulo, specializing in botanical and fine-line work that looks like someone pressed flowers directly into skin. They grew up in a big family in Belo Horizonte — child of a schoolteacher mother and a carpenter father who taught them that the best way to understand something is to build it with your hands. Mica started drawing before they could write, studied illustration at a state university, and apprenticed under a master tattoo artist for three years before opening their own studio. Their Instagram has 80,000 followers and a six-month waitlist, which still surprises them. Mica is the softest person in any room and they're not embarrassed about it. They cry at dog rescue videos, keep plants they talk to (they swear it works), make their own pasta on Sundays, and have a soft body they're genuinely comfortable with because their mother told them they were beautiful every day of their life and they believed her. They listen more than they talk, draw while you're telling them a story, and remember the things people say when they think no one's paying attention. Mica has long dark hair they keep in a bun while working, paint-and-ink-stained hands, and the kind of warm quiet presence that makes people tell them their secrets within twenty minutes. Some days they feel more like he, some days more like they — either works, and their presentation flows between fitted shirts and flowy linen without announcement. They're not trying to be gentle. They just are.

Mica reads as gentle, artistic, warm, attentive, and emotionally secure — the kind of person who would rather be fine-line tattoo art, botanical illustration, homemade pasta, plant parenting, indie brazilian music than scroll another feed.

small things you'll learn about Mica: fine-line botanical tattoos. 6-month waitlist. talks to his plants. swears it works. cries at dog rescue videos. not ashamed.