Deb Yarian

I am in my 32 year as well Deb what the Fuck? Didn't think my back would hold out all this time! Haa still slingin with the best of them A huge Kudo for you for sticking and keeping it real!

Thanks Shotsie

I don't know if you remember - I asked you for a job when you were first in Haledon--- I was so nervous and ill prepared.

Funny, change one thing, change everything..

That's very nice of you to say thank you so much

Mainly, my extremities are done ( have tattoos on them) plus my chest, abdomen and lower mid back.

From what I can recall the very top of my foot , front of my ankle was very intense.

it does light up.

client got portrait of self with the day of the dead adornments.

She brought in some pics of Nikko Hurtado's work for reference--- i don't do too much of this kind of work though.

Too bad it was closed-- but did you get to see the giant tattoo machine?

We are down the road north about 15 miles in Eagle River. We were at Anchorage Tattoo for 8 years prior-- great experience.

Thanks for the kind words Nick ---we feel the same about you.

Ms Rad, thanks i'll try to post a pic (:

What everybody else said ---- but sometimes it has taken months for me to completely heal.

It depends on where you get it, how it was done, health,medication, if you were leaning against something that irritated it, so many things could factor in to it - however 6 days is still so early.

Continue healing it the way you have your others.

See how it is then.

Many of my tattoos, on different areas of my body, at different times, occasionally only partially or in their entirety raise/ and or itch.

Take a little benadryl --see what happens.

Thanks all!

Thank you all

My first tattoo was a name ( I wish I could I remember which ) on an older man's hand.

And today I did a portrait of a girl made up for dia de Los muerte

Did my first tattoo 32 years ago!!

Once were warriors was a good movie

I worked at Inksmith and Rogers too - before tv ---

I've never worked anywhere---that had a tv

No- but I was not considerate of her and instead I had a conversation ( over her conversation) with my husband and his client and ignored her and her friends -- which ordinarily I would never do.

Sometimes (albeit) rarely, people take the stance that you are a service individual and treat you as I assume they would, the person attending to their car for example.

Recently I had a woman bring a couple of friends with her to her appointment. This would have been fine except that when I joined in on the conversation she behaved as if - hey do your job, do what you're being paid to do and let my friends and I alone.

Not good client behavior--- not acceptable and it didn't make for a good tattoo experience.

I was visiting my parents with my new baby. I leaned over the crib and they saw it.

I just remember them shaking their heads.

My dad was from a NY blue collar Irish Catholic family and my mother from an upper middle class Jewish family.

My parents were pretty liberal thinkers but for them a tattoo was more of a class thing.

Even though tattooing eventually becamhttp://www.colbeyjoyce.com/wp-content/gallery/Sketchbook/cowgirl.jpge my life it was never anything I shared or share with them.

When my father was hospitalized with a terminal illness I stayed with him and tended to his needs till he died.

I wore long sleeves so that he wouldn't see my tattoos on my arm--- just in case he would make a deathbed request that I not get any more tattoos.

I've come to the realization that my mother's inability to understand,like or appreciate my tattoos is not very different from my inability to accept her dislike.

Recently she also was hospitalized and I told her not to worry that I would get on a plane and be by her side In the morning ( even though my untattooed brother lives within an hour of her) What did she say? "Cover your tattoos!"

I've come to realize that many people when looking at tattoos can not see content, skill,quality.

When I first started getting tattooed my mother said to me that she didn't wnt my life made harder because of my tattoos and people judging because of them and I said that if people were going to judge me by the way I look they are not the people I want to be friends with anyway.

My mother's attitude has really helped me in my own relationship with my children. how to be more accepting of their appearances.

I was visiting my parents with my new baby. I leaned over the crib and they saw it.

I just remember them shaking their heads.

My dad was from a NY blue collar Irish Catholic family and my mother from an upper middle class Jewish family.

My parents were pretty liberal thinkers but for them a tattoo was more of a class thing.

Even though tattooing eventually became my life it was never anything I shared or share with them.

When my father was hospitalized with a terminal illness I stayed with him and tended to his needs till he died.

I wore long sleeves so that he wouldn't see my tattoos on my arm--- just in case he would make a deathbed request that I not get any more tattoos.

I've come to the realization that my mother's inability to understand,like or appreciate my tattoos is not very different from my inability to accept her dislike.

Recently she also was hospitalized and I told her not to worry that I would get on a plane and be by her side In the morning ( even though my untattooed brother lives within an hour of her) What did she say? "Cover your tattoos!"

I've come to realize that many people when looking at tattoos can not see content, skill,quality.

When I first started getting tattooed my mother said to me that she didn't wnt my life made harder because of my tattoos and people judging because of them and I said that if people were going to judge me by the way I look they are not the people I want to be friends with anyway.

My mother's attitude has really helped me in my own relationship with my children. how to be more accepting of their appearances.

Nick this is a great post

Thank you

Alanna,

Alanna

I think Jon may be on here-

His book. "These Old Blue Arms" is excellent.

I loved it.

Amund Dietzel

I got married to a tattooist and started tattooing when I was 19. He was heavily tattooed.

I am now married to another tattooist who is even more heavily tattooed.

I had a brief thing with yet another heavily tattooed tattooist.

I think my tastes may be a bit skewed, but I am 50 now, and a heavily tattooed man is my standard for attractiveness.

If I was single I couldn't imagine looking outside of my "community" for companionship.

That's just what I find physically attractive and has nothing to do with whether I would like someone's personality though.

Thank you for sharing this site Valerie!

How cool is that?

Did you say "oral contract" ?

Agreed,no $1.8 million.

So I am wrong--since it IS illegal in Vegas.

Some people may be under the mistaken impression that it is allowable statewide.

My parents and brother moved to Nevada from bklyn years ago and my brother has frequented the Mustang Ranch. The airports even have shops that sell knick knacks and t shirts advertising the brothels.

Legal situation

Chicken Ranch, June 2007

Under Nevada state law, any county with a population under 400,000, as of the last decennial census,[17] is allowed to license brothels if it so chooses.[7] Incorporated towns and cities in counties that allow prostitution may regulate the trade further or prohibit it altogether.

As of 2009, prostitution is illegal under state law in Clark County (which contains Las Vegas) and under county or municipal law in Washoe County (which contains Reno), Carson City (an independent city), Douglas County, and Lincoln County. The other 12 Nevada counties permit licensed brothels in certain specified areas or cities,[5] with the exception of Eureka County, which has no law on the books either permitting or prohibiting licensed brothels.[18] All 12 of these rural counties have had at least one legal brothel in operation subsequent to 1971, but many of these brothels were financially unsuccessful or ran afoul of State health regulations. As of 2009, only eight of these counties have active brothels, while the other four (Churchill County, Esmeralda County, Eureka County, and Pershing County) no longer do.

The precise licensing requirements vary by county. License fees for brothels range from an annual $100,000 in Storey County to an annual $200 in Lander County. Licensed prostitutes must be at least 21 years old, except in Storey County and Lyon County (where the minimum age is 18).

Shady Lady Ranch brothel sign.

Nevada law requires that registered brothel prostitutes be tested weekly (by a cervical specimen) for gonorrhea and Chlamydia trachomatis, and monthly for HIV and syphilis;[19] furthermore, condoms are mandatory for all oral sex and sexual intercourse. Brothel owners may be held liable if customers become infected with HIV after a prostitute has tested positive for the virus.[20] Women work a legally mandated minimum of nine days for each work period.[21]

Nevada has laws against engaging in prostitution outside of licensed brothels, against encouraging others to become prostitutes, and against living off the proceeds of a prostitute.

For many years, Nevada brothels were restricted from advertising their services in counties where brothel prostitution is illegal; however, this state law was overturned in 2007.[11]

In June 2009, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons signed the most stringent punishments nationwide for child prostitution and pandering. The Assembly Bill 380, which allows for fines of $500,000 for those convicted of trafficking prostitutes younger than 14 and $100,000 fo

Of course it's a ridiculous claim - that he is traumatized.

But my point is that he called a service and there supposedly was an agreed upon time for an agreed upon sum.

In Nevada it's NOT like making a drug deal- there is the business of escorts and prostitution.

But not in city limits.

That's the issue where he loses

just go online to Las Vegas yellow pages

The mustang ranch or the bunny ranch always have specials on HBO.

The technicality may be that it must be outside of city limits.