In the last month alone, I’ve experienced a planned surgery, a mystery illness immediately after completing a major milestone in my career (yay to the Baltimore Tattoo Convention!), and then an unexpected emergency surgery that has swept me off my feet yet again. Safe to say, this kind of time off adds up in more ways than one. Clients are disappointed. Bills stack up. Mental health tanks. Your image suffers. Your confidence suffers. Everything starts to feel like it’s

Nobody really prepares you for what a tattoo apprenticeship actually takes from you — or what it gives back. Sure, your mentor may start out with all the fresh warnings I’ve heard; that this job isn’t easy, that you will feel like you’re failing, that you’re going to have to make sacrifices and you will find yourself so painfully exhausted you’re questioning if it could possibly be worth it. Oftentimes when I hear people discuss a tattoo apprenticeship they speak more so on

A personal look into how I ended up at Ink or Dye Studio as a tattoo artist.

A quick introduction to what Sumthing Inked is all about!