WOP WOP!!! With a the new season, we get our luckily insightful tattooer to tattooer episode! From a young adolescent guitar hero artistic crazed child to now an avid show goer badass tattoo artist, meet Emily!! One of the starting three at @ninelives.la & yes, she does own multiple cats; listen how she got into tattooing from being in UCSC, life through an apprenticeship, and now in business of owning a tattoo studio!
First experiences with art (4:41) Feeling drawn to art as a teen (6:52) First experiences with tattoos as a child / teen (7:25) Getting your first tattoo the experience and why / how music shaped your first tattoo (17:30) Going to college, tattoos at UCSC (22:12) Leaving college / gaming industry in search of an apprenticeship (27:42) Finding an apprenticeship the how and why (30:10) Being an apprentice under a… particular kind of person (34:30) Positive and negative experiences as a female apprentice, advice for other women wanting to learn how to tattoo (43:15) Manarino PLUS / MINUS (50:21) Early days of tattooing, inspirations, hurdles and victories (54:35) Finding your style, and confidence (56:45) Leaving your teacher and the shop the owned, let’s talk about shop drama (1:02:30) How music shapes your daily inspiration as an artist and tattooer (1:05:10) The internet let’s talk about it (1:09:50) Having a supportive partner, and friends in tattooing - tattooing Raffa and Olli (1:14:30) How to trust male tattooers, division between the sexes in tattooing (1:16:50) Let’s talk about cats !! (1:19:40) Top 5 shop songs (1:22:45) MichaelMiguel’s question!!! (1:24:00) Mystery question!!!!! (1:33:25)
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Producers : @xCoreyx @DJMichaelMiguel
