Stephanie I think as a kid is when I decided I wanted to be heavily tattooed.  Although being from a small Texas town where tattoos where looked upon as trashy, growing up in a pretty strict family and attending Catholic School for many years, this was my little secret. A few weeks after my eighteenth [...]

Ang I didn’t waste any time when it came to getting my first tattoo. A few friends and I cut class on my 18th birthday and headed down to Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, CA. It was something I had been planning for long time. I was the first of my friends to get a tattoo, [...]

Gretchen Anne I was sixteen when I first fell in love with tattoos, and the affair is far from over. Tattooing is a truly incredible form of art that is completely unique in the sense that the human body is the canvas. For that reason, it is also the only form of art that permanently [...]

Kylee For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted tattoos. Not just one but several. The obsession started with a bet me and my mom made when I was 13. While she was on vacation I had a friend of mine pierce 13 holes in my ears. My mom came home and saw it [...]

Julie I’m from Santa Fe, New Mexico. I’ve been an artist my whole life and have always been fascinated by tattoos. My dad always made it very clear that he would be very disappointed in me if I got a tattoo, but I knew from a young age that I wanted them. I used to work next [...]