(I can say this with a modicum of surety because when I worked in a nursing home, I saw a whole lot of naked 80-year-olds, and there were some pretty awful tattoos attached to some of them. ![]() Her ink is beautiful and colorful, and although I’m not sure it will retain the sharpness it has now, she has pieces that will still look good when she’s 80. As the mother of a tattoo aficionado, I appreciate this more than words can say. Tattoos will last 3-7 days Featuring illustrations by Lydia Stone and Julia Fernandez and words by Dakota Warren from her debut book, On Sun Swallowing. She worked as a piercer in a tattoo shop in Virginia for a while, so she’s very particular about who puts permanent ink on her body. This is the main reason I asked our daughter, instead of either of the Georges, for a tattoo for Mother’s Day. Being that I had chosen a pretty visible spot on my body for the new work, I wanted to make sure the person doing it wouldn’t forget to put my air filters in, or fit me with the wrong size head gasket, or give me a tattoo that I’d “regret.” A bad tattoo is hard enough to live with, but a bad tattoo on your wrist, that you had to look at every day and think, “that’s a bad tattoo,” would be just awful. Good tattoo artists are as hard to find as good diesel mechanics, and they’re damn near as expensive. We are a tattoo studio in Huber Heights, OH and Richmond, IN. ![]() ![]() A few months ago, Overdrive did a “Show us your ink” photo gallery for the page, and it gave me the fever for some new body artwork, so when our daughter asked me what I wanted for Mother’s Day, I told her a new tattoo.
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