Brynne Worthy

My name is Brynne and I've been tattooing in southern california for a little over 6 years. I'm loving all of the interviews and forums on this site, so much insight and inspiration. It's also nice to see some friends and hopefully make new ones!

Okay Dari you asked:) The skulls turned out alright in the end, but the yin-yang bear claw gave me no leeway. It just bums me out cuz that guy is out there, super happy with it, telling people who he got it from and it's awful. I sacrificed my integrity for the almighty dollar. Which raises a good question, when a client is so unwilling to let you make something better, should you just send them down the road? Or is that the one you just do to pay the bills? I have a great clientele, but I'm not close to the point where I can pick and choose what I want to do either. Insight?

Dr. Pogue has a Kenny Rogers air about him... I started my first apprenticeship under this guy who was theeeee worst junkie I have ever met. Because all of his money went to heroin, I would scrub off and pressure cook used needles daily. I had to pick him up on corners while he pan handled if we got a walk in. The kicker was when he missed his target and had an abscess the size of a softball on his upper arm. He went to the hospital for it, where they instructed him to clean it out and stuff new gauze into it every few hours. I had the lovely job of taking out the gauze (which smelled like cat pee), picking off the little pieces of balled up heroin attached to save for later, washing the old gauze and dunking it in alcohol, then stuffing it back into the giant gaping hole in his arm. He moved shops and thankfully I couldn't go with him.

Thank you, I'm totally going to use that line because I don't get it either. "But it's not FOR anyone else it's for me" -Oh so that's why it's posted on facebook and on your left wrist so people can see it while you're driving. Which is totally fine, whatever makes the client happy. My pet peeves are the last minute "by the way, it needs to cover this," and the "I drew this myself and want it exactly like that." I have a folder of originals that would take your breath away.