by Shelly Dax | Jan 26, 2023 | Art, Creativity
2023 🐇 THE BIG LEAP. THE SHIFT. A scary but inspired HOP into a new direction. Releasing the old and welcoming the NEW. All you gotta do is ….Jummmmmp! A FRESH new fuzzy, snuggly, bouncy year ahead. And I am delighted to say I’ve made the big leap into my...
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 | 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 | 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...
