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  • What's up, everybody?

  • Welcome back to my channel.

  • Hello.

  • How are you today?

  • We are finally doing the tattoo diaries, Part two.

  • Now I know it has been highly requested.

  • You all have been asking why has it taken so long?

  • So I'm finally here where it's gonna have a little Barbara Walters moment on the couch.

  • I am here in New York City today, not in Los Angeles.

  • I am here for lipstick, Nick's makeup class.

  • And I thought, Why not sit down, finally have some free time and just sit and talk about tattoos, some life stories and just some crazy stories that I haven't thought about in a long time.

  • Now, if we have no idea what I'm talking about, part one will be linked down below.

  • And that's where I talk about.

  • My tattoo is all the way from my neck down to my private regions.

  • A lot of you've been wondering, why has it been taking me so long since I started YouTube and my brand.

  • Everything has grown together so crazy on.

  • And I just haven't had the time to really just sit down and do some story time.

  • So if you wanna watch today's video, I would definitely go grab a snack, grab a Red Bull, grab a friend and let's dive in to the Tattoo Diaries, Part two.

  • All right, so today we're gonna talk about my right arm, and this has been through some very traumatic experiences.

  • My right arm was the very first place I ever got tattooed.

  • So I graduated high school at 17 and I moved to L.

  • A.

  • Immediately.

  • I was just so bored of Orange County.

  • I was feeding for just more culture, more makeup, more activity.

  • So I moved to L.

  • A.

  • And I was like, You know why I'm ready to get tattooed.

  • I've always loved statues.

  • I grew up in the punk rock scene in a heavy metal screaming like the whole culture of this punk rock.

  • And I just love tattoos from Huntington Beach, California If you guys did not know that.

  • And I grew up on the beach with a lot of skaters and just punk culture, and I have just always wanted them all over obviously accomplish that.

  • But when you're 18 you have no idea how addicting tattoos can be, which they're addicting.

  • So I remember going, you know, if I want a tattoo like I'm someone that just goes big or goes home.

  • So I went to Hollywood Boulevard.

  • Now I am going to say real quickly.

  • Disclaimer.

  • Please.

  • Always remember to pick an artist that you have researched.

  • Now, here's where I made the mistake.

  • I was 18.

  • I was very ignorant.

  • I had no idea.

  • I thought everyone was great at tattoos.

  • If you know you did.

  • Tattoo is you must be amazing, cause I'm just such a crazy skill.

  • So I went to a random shop on Hollywood Boulevard, told this guy what I wanted, I wanted like, Well, we're gonna show some pictures here right now.

  • You guys have the before is that I dug up through my old phone and my old laptop.

  • It took me a minute to find these pictures, but I want to show you guys some riel flashbacks of what my arm looks like then.

  • And then, of course, from the laser removal to, Of course, Michelle Pfeiffer is Catwoman on my arm today.

  • So I met this guy, right?

  • Don't even say his name because it didn't end well and he drew up Clara bow.

  • That is a actress from the 19 twenties who was in the silent film era.

  • And I always loved that old Hollywood vibe.

  • So I got the words of makeup Massacre.

  • Remember I was 18.

  • I was like rebellious.

  • I'm like, yes, like makeups, everything and death and gore and razor blades and cupcakes.

  • And that was like my whole shtick was like a little bit of violence in a little bit of pretty.

  • That was my whole thing back then.

  • He dropped this amazing piece.

  • It looked really cool on paper.

  • It was stunning.

  • He put on the stencil I lived for.

  • It was all the way from here to my elbow, basically right.

  • And you guys see in the before has the razor blades, the mascara wand and all these things were incorporated with makeup days.

  • Here I go to get tattooed my 1st 1 ever.

  • It's a big piece.

  • I have no idea what I'm getting into and he starts tattooing, and it was all right.

  • It was like, Okay, this feels kind of like I don't know, like a sunburn or like a little stinging.

  • But it wasn't bad.

  • And then he starts doing the color.

  • He took a break before he smoked.

  • And I'm not saying that if you smoke weed, you're gonna be bad at tattooing.

  • But that day I don't know what this person was going through.

  • He dug really deep.

  • And what I mean by digging deep is that they're taking the needle on there, really going in really hard.

  • And he did it so hard that later, when my body was healing, it was extremely scabbed.

  • All the color fell out.

  • All the black lines were there.

  • But the color was so badly done and hurt so bad.

  • And I had no idea.

  • Later on, when I got more tattoos, I'm like, Okay, this should have never heard it that bad.

  • But he really went in.

  • And the tattoo you guys hurt so bad.

  • I was in so much pain, I couldn't believe it.

  • I was like, Oh, my God.

  • My mom told me not to do this.

  • I'm sitting there thinking like Oh, my God!

  • And made a huge mistake has hurt so bad on my crime.

  • I have big fuckinpussy.

  • I can't hang so later when it healed.

  • You guys, you guys can see in these pictures as a year to progress.

  • There was hardly any color at all fellow.

  • It looked awful and I was really depressed about it.

  • I felt like I fell and I like, ruin my body.

  • So years later, I've got more tattoos.

  • I took the risk with someone else on.

  • I found someone way better, and I got some great tattoos.

  • Years later, the technology of laser removal came out.

  • Now I've heard horror stories of people getting laser tattoo removal that it hurts so bad.

  • It's horrifying.

  • It's really painful.

  • There's blisters, there's blood.

  • Those were all true, Um, and it was brutal.

  • But if you really don't want something on your body, I think that the pain is worth it.

  • It's very quick.

  • The laser last for seconds, but while those seconds were going by, it is very painful.

  • Here are a few flashbacks of me getting laser now, the ink it has toe break down in your body and you have to go every month.

  • So for a year and 1/2 I went finally was really light enough.

  • We could kind of barely see it.

  • You see the outline and I was like, You know what?

  • I'm ready to get covered.

  • I went to Nico, her Tato, who has done a bunch of my tattoos on me.

  • He's done the Edward Scissorhands on my back and a bunch of other ones.

  • So I said, Hey, you are one of the best color tattoos in the entire world and I would love you to do a really sick piece, something really dark and dramatic that can really cover the laser scars and the old pigment from the first tattoo.

  • I love X Men.

  • I love Batman.

  • I love Marvel.

  • I look comics, and I just grew up In that world of characters and fantasy, I've always loved Catwoman in Batman is one of my favorite franchises.

  • Michelle Pfeiffer is the best Catwoman, so iconic.

  • So I picked her to get tattooed on me When I went in.

  • I was like, Are you sure you can cover this?

  • And he was like, We're good.

  • We started and he only did half the face and the whole background and going to stop and let that heal and come back.

  • So for, for like, a few weeks, Catwoman had no face.

  • It looks so weird.

  • And then I came back.

  • He finished it.

  • And when I looked in the mirror.

  • I was so shocked, like I got so emotional because it was such a ugly tattoo I had before, and it kind of sucks.

  • You have to look in the mirror and you have something on you that you don't want.

  • And I think a lot of you out there can definitely relate to me.

  • You've either gotten tattoos that you regretted, and you've gotten your boyfriend's name and broke up.

  • You've got tattoos and you were drunk, and you're like, What did I do the next morning?

  • So there's a 1,000,000 scenarios I know, but for me, I just know that I didn't want it on me.

  • So when I was finally covered, it felt like I had armor on.

  • I was a person.

  • I felt more confident.

  • I'm a tattoo healed so beautifully.

  • I was just, like, speechless.

  • So now we're gonna travel down a little bit on my entire forearm and my lower part of my arm.

  • Now, I met this girl named Zoe a long time ago, tricking like 12 years ago.

  • Now he was a tattoo artist.

  • I met on Melrose Avenue, which is a very famous street here in Los Angeles and we clicked.

  • We bonded.

  • I love her energy.

  • She was really cool.

  • She was also in a band and I told you guys, my whole stick and my thing back in the day was mixing pretty and ugly things together.

  • So as you travel down my arm, you will see a beautiful beauty shop.

  • Nagel It is a style of are an artist that did this type of design in the eighties.

  • I'm sure a lot of us things like nail shops and hair salons.

  • So I wanted Thio have everything beauty and danger on my body for this specific piece.

  • So you guys see the beauty shop Nagel, you see the peppermint Candies?

  • You see the pills.

  • I love the movie of Valley of the Dolls featuring Sharon Tate who have tattooed on me over here.

  • I just lived for that whole beauty queen.

  • Just aesthetic and the dark psychology behind it.

  • All.

  • You guys see, there's razor blade is a butcher knife.

  • There is a medical syringe.

  • There is a big mannequin here holding a human heart, which is reminiscent to my music days.

  • If you don't know, I didn't music for about eight years before starting my makeup company.

  • That's a whole nother story Time, you guys, But yeah, Zoe did all these.

  • I'm, like, totally taking off my jacket to look right now.

  • There is this tattoo right here.

  • Looks a little chicken scratchy, but it is a tattoo I got with one of my best friends named Britney.

  • And it's it's hashtag t a a C, which stands for there's always a catch.

  • It was a little phrase.

  • We used to stay back today about everyone, especially guys like when you find the perfect guy.

  • But there's always a catch.

  • I'm looking in my arms, like what else?

  • Okay, so this pink 666 right here.

  • This is really faded.

  • This is literally 10 years old.

  • So we were all at cap on these tattoo shop.

  • This literally like 10 years ago.

  • Everyone is partying, having a good time.

  • And for some reason, we got these tattoos on us and he hasn't asked.

  • I have it on my arm.

  • I think Cat has on her arm.

  • Think he tattooed her.

  • She do me.

  • It was just one of those really fun.

  • Crazy Hollywood nights.

  • Houston, My elbow.

  • It's unfinished.

  • I have an outline of a lollipop sucker.

  • It was supposed to be rainbow like the famous ones from the circus.

  • Or like you get a Disneyland a carnival and we did the outline and for some reason I never got it filled in.

  • And all these years I meant to do it so many different times.

  • But then it ended up getting a new peace and then a new piece and then another new one in another new one.

  • And I never finished it.

  • So it's kind of like an ongoing joke with myself that I'm just never gonna finish it.

  • Now.

  • One of my favorite tattoos that I've ever gotten is the iconic Mac lipstick.

  • Now Mac was my first ever job.

  • 18.

  • I was fresh out of high school.

  • I had been living in L.

  • A.

  • For nine months doing Brandon Jobs, and I went to the Beverly Center and I applied at the Mac counter.

  • Annika hired, and it was such a dream, too.

  • Be a consumer that loves Mac, and we were talking back in the day, Mac was everything.

  • If you didn't wear Mac, you were a basic bitch.

  • That's what I was told to night school So when I got the job, I couldn't believe it.

  • It was such a moment for me.

  • It was such like a grown up moment from going toe, you know, 12th grade graduating.

  • What am I gonna do with my life?

  • Okay.

  • Like I loved makeup since I was, you know, a kid.

  • Here we are.

  • Can't believe it.

  • It just symbolizes the journey that started this entire, you know, empire.

  • And I can't believe it.

  • So, looking back at this, I love it.

  • Mac will always have a deer place in my heart.

  • And it's probably one of my most favorite tattoos.

  • You see, in my wrist here it says vanity.

  • It also has vanity right here on the side of my face and go big or go home.

  • Vanity has always been a word that has resonated with my music with my merge with my entire career.

  • And it's just a word that is very powerful.

  • All right.

  • The infamous hand tattoo?

  • No, I get asked all the time.

  • Who is that?

  • It's literally no one.

  • The tattoo artist who did this?

  • His name is Gunner, and at the time he was in Redlands, California tattooing out there and saw his artwork online fell in love with.

  • It was like all these creepy, really cool, different characters.

  • Am he just handling it?

  • It was a very big moment for me because I had had my arm completely done.

  • And it's such a final step of, like doing the hand.

  • There's always so many jokes about, like if you get a hand tattoo, you're not gonna have a real job ever.

  • So looking back, it's definitely funny.

  • I got told that a lot.

  • You're never gonna be able to have a corporate job.

  • But unlike Girl, that ain't for me.

  • I wish that I could turn back time because I did fall out of love with color tattoos.

  • I'm gonna say it.

  • You guys know I'm really honest, so I don't regret getting it.

  • I just wish that there was an easier way to her movie.

  • I still appreciate this.

  • Obviously scared every day.

  • I don't hate it.

  • I don't just like it.

  • I just wish that I could have black it great on this entire thing.

  • Honestly, I've thought about laser ring some of this, but this one was so painful and it took so long.

  • I'm just gonna live.

  • What I got These cute little tattoos are a little ice cream and a lollipop.

  • I got my fingers by tattoo artist named Dan Smith literally 12 years ago.

  • He also did the vanity on the side of my face.

  • These were cute little banger tattoos.

  • I just wanted as little fillings.

  • I got stuff all over my fingers and you guys can see these ones were really old.

  • I would love to get them touched up there really cute.

  • And I love looking at them as we move up on the hand.

  • Right here.

  • You see the word fame?

  • I got that for the singer.

  • David Bowie is such an iconic performer.

  • Artist, singer legend, rest in peace on.

  • This is one of my favorite just moments of his entire career.

  • Like fame is the epitome of David Bowie, and now a lot of people ask, What does TFC mean?

  • This is an acronym, and it means top of the food chain.

  • And actually, my friend and artist high Tone created this entire catchphrase for his brand.

  • He is a rapper.

  • He does amazing music, and this was his thing.

  • So I was getting tattooed at the shop he was working at.

  • Everyone was getting TFC at the time.

  • I really love the motto and what it stood for.

  • Just being the best version of yourself.

  • It's not about money or success.

  • It's just about internally, like being at the top of your game, being the best person you can, just always trying to be the best, U s.

  • So this is definitely a good reminder.

  • All right, now I get asked this a lot.

  • I'm gonna do some zoom in shots right now with no jewelry on, But I get asked all the time.

  • What do my knuckles say?

  • So they say Cats, Meo and Brian Gonzales from ink slingers shut up to him in Alhambra, California He did my knuckles as well as a bunch of stuff on my body.

  • And true, You guys heard me mention him in part One video.

  • It says Katz me on.

  • If you don't know what that is for two young, it is a little saying from back in the day, and my grandma would say, like you're the cat's me out.

  • Basically meaning like you're the shit.

  • You're everything work.

  • I love these tattoos.

  • Brian did such an amazing job.

  • A lot of people that get the knuckles done, it falls out.

  • It looks kind of shitty.

  • But the way he did it, I don't know, maybe.

  • And I'm just not.

  • My body does heal pretty good, but it's been like five or six years now, and it looks brand new Now on my fingers.

  • I get asked us all the time.

  • What do they mean?

  • I have a new Sava butcher knife attitude.

  • I have a gun.

  • Of course we talked about the ice cream.

  • These are all the cute things that symbolized up.

  • So these weapons here, one of them is from the rope of the game.

  • Clue.

  • I know you guys probably look it up.

  • It is a board game has ever No clue is I hope and pray.

  • A butcher knife is for one of the very first songs that I ever wrote.

  • It's called eyelash Curlers and Butcher Knives.

  • What's the difference?

  • So that symbolizes my first E p that ever put out.

  • And then my two is for all the crazy dental work that I got and then the gun.

  • This is a desert eagle, and my dad was actually a marksman.

  • and I have been doing target practice and shooting my whole entire life.

  • Besides that, you guys, there is a lot more to talk about.

  • We definitely need to do part three and part for.

  • I will make sure to not wait a year this time.

  • So thank you so much for watching today's video.

  • If you guys have any questions or any comments, sound off below.

  • Let me know what your favorite tattoo on me is.

  • And of course, I will be back soon to talk about more of this.

  • Thank you guys so much and I'll see you on the next one.

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