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 | 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...