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Palm Springs Life: Desert Roses
There’s such an exchange of energy with my clients. You have to be really tuned in to what it is they are looking for, what they want the art to express. I feel like female tattoo artists are coming into their own right now. In three or four years, it will be a whole new culture. Gentler, not as macho.
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Palm Springs Life: Desert Roses
“I studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I’m a hand-poke artist, which means I don’t use a tattooing machine. It’s all by hand, dot-by-dot.”
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Shoutout LA: Meet Gabriella Evaro
“Believing in myself and true dedication to my craft. Believing in myself was one of the hardest steps to taking this path. There is such real fear to failure or never being enough or never making enough money to survive. I have learned that I must get out of my own way and push myself to work hard, do what I love and all my dreams will, can and are coming true.”
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The Desert Sun: I got a hand-poked tattoo from a Yucca Valley artist. The experience made me want another.
“Compton is one of a growing group of tattoo artists using the hand-poke method, in which ink is individually stuck into the skin, dot by dot. A School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduate, she dabbled in micro-blading and fashion (she created a knitwear line, Rustic Threads) before beginning to tattoo regularly last year.”
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Shoutout LA: Meet Taylor Elyse Compton: Tattoo Artist & Entrepreneur
“I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. I find business to be just as creative, as designing a piece of art. Although it can take much longer, you basically do the same steps. You start off fantasizing about what you want to create, you research how to make it possible, then you gather your resources, and get to work! By the end of all of that you should have something pretty awesome to enjoy and share with the world.”