//Owner of Blackbird Ink Kirsty York, right, consults with client Hannah Fortune about her first tattoo at the Lafayette tattoo shop on Sept. 11. Photo by Ali Mai | [email protected] After Kirsty York was fired from the tattoo shop she worked at three years...
//Jordan Jasinski tattooing a client at Urban Element Tattoo in Denver on Feb. 6. Photo by Madison Lauterbach | [email protected] The secret to success in the tattoo business? Paying your dues. It’s a creed that Jordan Jasinski swears by. There is no shortcut...
//Ana Reed and Meredith Cross-Dorsey discuss a tattoo design behind the desk at Smokey Banana tattoo shop on May 22. Photos by Annie Burky | [email protected] Tattoo shops are working to find a safe way to reopen within the state’s requirements, but parlors like...
//Photo provided by Gina Ilczyszyn. We—the women, the alternative, the proud non-binary and beyond—are lucky to live in an artistic, open-minded, and flourishing city. The constant motion of city streets, flashes of colorful, painted walls, the buzzing of tattoo...
//Nest Art Collective owner Lora Bird sits in her private tattoo booth at the Wheat Ridge tattoo and art shop on Aug. 13. Photos by Ali Mai | [email protected] Owner of HonestBird Tattoo and the founder of Nest Artist Collective, Lora Bird is aware that tattooing is...
// A print of Aloria Weaver’s oil portrait of Alicia Cardenas titled “Integrity, Piercing the Veil of Obscuration.” Photo by Madison Lauterbach | [email protected] This story was reported with help from Alexandra Cummings. In the body...
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