by Shelly Dax | Oct 27, 2020 | Tattoo
Exhausted to the bone. 🦴 Yep. INTENSE! Putting yourself out there, getting your voice into the world, risking the ol “what will they think” BS. Having some rude responses, but actually getting mostly GREAT feedback AND encouragement. Seeing possibility where I...
by Shelly Dax | Jun 28, 2020 | Tattoo
I’m on a roll baby, I got my sights set on BIG changes in the tattoo industry. I am over my old, limited thinking… “Old school rules”, “tattoo secrets for a chosen few”, “I’ll never be good enough”,...
by Shelly Dax | Jun 13, 2020 | Pep Talks
This is a slight detour from my normal blogs, but I felt it might be helpful, and it’s been on my mind. My partner and I have been doing deep dive work on ourselves and for the relationship, with some great books, audios and workshops, over the last six months. It’s...
by Shelly Dax | May 28, 2020 | Creativity, Pep Talks
Hey YOU, it’s ok to BE SEEN. (I’m talking to myself there mostly). So, I freaking hate to admit that I spent so many DAMN years wasting and withering away, like some timid, insignificant nobody. I literally wrote a monologue in a playwriting class that began “I...
by Shelly Dax | May 11, 2020 | Tattoo
The Tattoo Industry Needs a Makeover Ironic that the tattoo industry is all about adding beauty to a person’s skin, and yet there is a darkness in the industry itself that is anything but beautiful. A pervasive us-versus-them attitude when it comes to who is allowed...
by Shelly Dax | Apr 15, 2020 | Creativity, Pep Talks
Uplevel your Ordinary; Use This Crisis to Flourish. Listen, fer sure times are weird. The current “situation” is the strangest I’ve ever been through (I use situation in lieu of all the panic inducing words). Some of us are dealing with loneliness, lack of...
by Shelly Dax | Mar 30, 2020 | Creativity, Pep Talks
Spring invokes thoughts of flowers, sunshine, rainbows, chicks and spring cleaning! But this spring, we are in a strange lockdown situation that has affected millions of people. I know there are worries, traumas, hardship and misinformation galore. So during this...
by Shelly Dax | Feb 25, 2020 | Pep Talks
Walking and talking to myself. I reassure me, as if I were talking to a good friend. So, I tell myself nice things. Things like “you are loved”, “you are so lucky”, “you are beautiful”, “it’s all okay”,...
by Shelly Dax | Jan 7, 2020 | Pep Talks
I’m not afraid of changes. In fact, I give ‘em a cuddle. What would my life be like if things didn’t change? Stale, boring, stagnant. Oh yessss, some of the changes are messy, some annoying (I’m looking at you HOT FLASHES!) and some utterly dreadful. But others are...
by Shelly Dax | Aug 5, 2019 | Tattoo
Deciding to become a tattoo artist was no picnic as I had miniscule support from the people around me. I was on track to become an arts administrator, studying at the local university and I was in my late thirties! Everyone thought I was CRAZY. I worked part time as...