Kayden

I had a funny one about 5 years ago driving from Dallas to Shreveport. I stop for gas in this hick town, and the lady behind the counter says, "Boy you got some nerve walkin' around like that." She points at the bat tattooed on my throat, "Everyone knows that's some Nazi shit on your neck, and in Texas it's illegal to even have a tattoo on your face or neck. You could be arrested for just standing here with that on your neck." I explained that I wasn't racist by any means, my tattoo wasn't associated with that, and that I'm a tattoo artist in Texas and know the laws. The very idea was ridiculous. She starts arguing and threatens to call the cops. I just shook my head and left. I was pretty pissed for a few minutes, then I just started laughing. It was so silly. Just pure ignorance, and making up her own ideas of symbolism and laws.

Right on man. I'm in the Dallas area as well. And Alan does my laser removal. Just finished lasering off my entire left forearm, now its time to do the other one!

My name is Kayden. I'm 37, tattooer in Dallas Texas. I live in Ft. Worth, tattoo in Addison. (I don't say "work" in Addison because I haven't worked a day in 10 years.) Tattooing and my family are my entire life. If you count my hand poking as a kid, then I have been tattooing 27 years. If you count from when I got really serious about tattooing, then I've been tattooing for 20 years. If you only count years in a shop, then it's been 10 years. ....I always have a hard time answering that "how long" question, I usually just answer, "my whole life".