247 Ink Magazine (December/January) 2016 Issue#12 | Page 36

got hired and I apprenticed for like 3 years. So yeah, it just happened in my hometown after hanging out at the tatt shop. 34 Over the last year we have spoken to a lot of female artists about their feelings about the respect factor towards them, what are your thoughts and feeling on the subject? So, I started working in tattoo shops around 2005 and I was an apprentice so I didn’t start tattooing until 2010 but I was definitely in the industry and in the environment for the past 11 years. I will say that even within that time