Ladies & Ink

01/18/2025

at Sailors Grave in Eureka California

01/18/2025

at Sailors Grave in Eureka California

03/20/2024

Top 5 Reasons Tattooing is a HEALING ART🌿😇✨

1. Pain & Permanence✨
Choosing to sit with uncomfortable sensations helps strengthen our ability. The practice of trading pain for permanence for the sake of beauty and art teaches us that striving, challenge and endurance can be rewarding.

2. Meditation✨
The time with attention to all the sensations is a meditative practice. ~Breathwork: Breathing through discomfort can be empowering to your nervous system. When your in-breath is used to prepare you for the discomfort (acceptance) ~ Your controlled exhale imparts the opportunity to relax and cleanse, being in charge of what hurts.

3. Self Discovery thru Self Expression✨
Getting tattooed helps us get to know ourselves better. Taking those initial steps comes from a need to express parts of ourselves FOR OURSELVES. Working with an artist is an effort in co-creation that helps us solidify our Voice, our Vision & helps lead to Self Actualization over and over again. Getting tattooed is not “addicting” ~ i like to say it’s Perpetually Inspiring!

4. Shedding Skin✨
The physical act of healing becomes a poignant and personal thing to bear witness to. You’ve made it through the pain, you’ve reckoned with the permanence, and you get to watch the way the art Transforms your actual body. This is the miracle of regeneration coupled with all the important internal elements of your Journey.

5. Being a Tattoo Artist for over 23 years has been an ever growing lesson in the previous 4 ✨
While also teaching what it means to be a good steward for other people’s Healing. ✨Practicing the arts of deep listening, safely inviting, mindfully creating for and carefully wielding the needles time and time again has taught me so much about my own Healing Journey.
🌿Helping thousands of folks through my career Discover, Express and Actualize their Authentic Selves through Art is a human interest story on compassion, celebration, grief, gratitude, mystery, memory, reverie, creativity personal freedom.

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05/23/2023

We have these markings so that our loved ones can recognize us in the afterlife.

LaDonna Tamakawastewin Allard is a Dakota and Lakota historian and activist. In April 2016, she helped found the Sacred Stone Camp, a resistance camp of the ...

04/13/2023

Anyone read this book by Judy Bloom!? The movie was filmed in Charlotte!

06/13/2022

Hi :)

Hi everybody! It's been a wild ride from 2019 until today, but here we are. It is my greatest pleasure and achievement to share that I will be opening my own private studio by the end of this summer 2022.

03/01/2022

tattoo by Christy Fish

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Sarah B Bolen Berlin, Germany

10/07/2021

Sarah B Bolen Berlin, Germany

10/07/2021

Alba Prague, Czech Republic

10/07/2021

Wales, UK