247 Ink Magazine (February/March) 2017 Issue#13 | Page 203

Let ’ s Get Tattoos After Dark out of the way . How has being on tv changed your life ? Good and bad ? I got a lot of recognition as far as being a tattoo artist goes . I noticed a lot of the audience was young women . A lot of them 13 to 17 so they can ’ t get tattooed and a lot are overseas in the UK . It showed in the US in 2014 and then was on the UK version of MTV and the audience was a lot larger . So I often get people who come from there and visit and get tattooed while here . The response was amazing . The only thing I didn ’ t like and I battled a lot of people on social media about it , is that people would lump you in as a whole with everyone on the show and say the artists suck . They don ’ t judge you on your own . I found myself sending them a picture and saying “ Oh yea , this sucks ?” They would say “ Well , no ” and I would say “ Then don ’ t lump me in with everyone else .” So like anything else there were some good and bad things about it .

Let ’ s Get Tattoos After Dark out of the way . How has being on tv changed your life ? Good and bad ? I got a lot of recognition as far as being a tattoo artist goes . I noticed a lot of the audience was young women . A lot of them 13 to 17 so they can ’ t get tattooed and a lot are overseas in the UK . It showed in the US in 2014 and then was on the UK version of MTV and the audience was a lot larger . So I often get people who come from there and visit and get tattooed while here . The response was amazing . The only thing I didn ’ t like and I battled a lot of people on social media about it , is that people would lump you in as a whole with everyone on the show and say the artists suck . They don ’ t judge you on your own . I found myself sending them a picture and saying “ Oh yea , this sucks ?” They would say “ Well , no ” and I would say “ Then don ’ t lump me in with everyone else .” So like anything else there were some good and bad things about it .

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