Tattoo Design Background with Alter-Ego Tattoo Studio Text in front

Renee Pastorius

Owner, Tattoo Artist, Body Piercer, Permanent Makeup Technician, & Laser Tattoo Removal Technician

A Portrait Picture of the Owner of the Studio and Main Tattoo Artist, Renee

Renee is married and a mother of four boys. She has been tattooing for 26 years also doing Body Piercing, Permanent Makeup, and Laser Tattoo Removal. Renee has some experience in this area of work, graduating from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design with a bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in painting and minoring in photography. Then she went on to UW Oshkosh to recieve her bachelors degree in Art Education K-12. She had an apprenticeship at Main Street Tattoo, and then bought the business after 6 years and had it become Alter-Ego Tattoo Studio, what it is today. She has knowledge in all services we offer being the owner of the business, and from going to school for both permanent makeup and laser tattoo removal.

Tattoo of a bouquet of flowers
Tattoo of gears
Tattoo of a flower mosiac
Tattoo of a colorful countryside landscape with cars, a compass, and a deer
Tattoo of a colorful watercolor-inspired penguin
Tattoo of Gotham city and Heath Ledger's Joker
Tattoo of a calavera skull with flowers
Tattoo of a detailed lotus flower
Tattoo of a detailed abstract flower bouquet
Tattoo of a colorful and stylistic tree
Tattoo of a detailed owl overlooking a forest
Tattoo of detailed flowers with a pattern behind them

Ruth Koch

Tattoo Artist, Body Piercer, & Laser Tattoo Technician

A Portrait Picture of Longtime Alter-Ego Tattoo Artist, Ruth

Ruth has two daughters and was born and raised in Kewaskum. She went to Laser Tattoo Removal school in 2017 in Colorado. She also has taken the CPR Class and Blood Borne pathogens class. Ruth had worked in a different tattoo studio prior to Alter-Ego Tattoo Studio which she has been with for 8 years now. Ruth is a tattoo artist, body piercer, and a laser tattoo removal technician.

Tattoo of a coverup from a star to a bunch of colorful flowers
Tattoos of an anchor and a sailboat surrounded by water
Tattoo of a bird surrounded by flowers
Tattoo of a couple of flowers

Tattoo of a colorful compass with an arrow through it
Tattoo of a patterned lotus with colorful splashes
Tattoo of a candle in a cage, surrounded by a beaded necklace and some flowers
Tattoo of a skull surrounded by flowers
Tattoo of a detailed girl with a mosiac pattern of flowers behind her
Tattoo of a tree-like person with a split head, a face on their stomach, and a grotesque toddler in front of it
Tattoo of a detailed handprint
Tattoo of a skull surrounded by flowers again

Heather Dougherty

Tattoo Artist & Body Piercer

A Portrait Picture of Longtime Alter-Ego Tattoo Artist, Heather

Heather grew up in Greenfield, WI and graduated from Whitnall High School in 2007. She also went to UW-Milwaukee and got her bachelor's in fine art, drawing/painting. Heather now lives in West Bend with her husband and daughter. She has been with Alter-Ego Tattoo Studio for 6 years now and tattooing for 5 years. The two services that Heather specializes in are tattooing and body piercing.

Tattoo of a detailed dog in a paw print
Tattoo of a hummingbird by a flower
Tattoo of a detailed heart
Tattoo of a colorful flower

Tattoo of an anchor with some flowers
Tattoo of a tiger with a pattern around it
Tattoo of Snoopy the dog looking at a heart
Tattoo of a detailed Smokey the Bear
Tattoo of a detailed woman with flowers in her hair
Tattoo of a hunter with a turkey on his back
Tattoo of a calavera woman with a flower in her eye
Tattoo of a bell with a flower wrapped around it