- Okay.
Everything's fine.
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- My relationship with tattoos is honestly pretty strong,
one of the strongest relationships I've had.
- I would say I started getting tattoos way too young,
and so I have a whole batch of regrettable tattoos
from when I was younger that are very unattractive,
but luckily easily hid by clothing.
- I got my first tattoo when I was 17 or 18,
and I've been getting tattoos since,
it's been like 10 years.
- As I got older, I got kind of a second round of tattoos
that I actually like.
I don't know how many tattoos I have.
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- Today I am getting an orchid.
It's like an orchid plant,
so there's several flowers on it.
- I'm getting a tattoo of a deer skull with flowers.
I reminds me of a time with my kids outside.
- Orchids are my favorite flower.
There's something in there of a little like feminine energy.
- All right, time to get inked.
(laughing)
- Hey, how's it going?
- Good, I'm Jazzmyne.
- I'm Diana, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- I am so excited to see you again.
- Yay.
- You actually did my tattoo cover up behind my ear.
I thought I'd be much braver.
- Close behind here.
Ready to see your designs?
- I am.
- So I made two different versions for you
based on what you told me that you liked.
- They're so pretty.
- It's so dainty, and it just reminds me of nature,
not like death or sadness.
- I think I like this diamond.
- It will kind of give it a sense of completion
and like a framing, so it'll feel like its own piece.
I've been tattooing now for about 12 years.
The way I characterize my tattooing is a lot
of fine-line black and gray, a lot of attention
to detail, and customized design for my clients.
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See how you feel about it.
- I'm already gonna cry.
- Oh I am so stoked.
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- Yeah!
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- She said the bicep hurts.
I was like really anticipating something bad,
and I was pleasantly surprised.
- I feel like I'm definitely used
to the feeling of the single needle now.
It's like a bigger sting, but it's quicker.
- Feels like a needle going into your body.
No surprise there.
Though I like this a little bit better
than other tattoos that I've had,
I think some of it also has
to do that I can see what's going on.
- So right now what I'm doing is going in,
doing some little lines, but also doing the shading
at the same time.
I got started tattooing at 18 years old
going on 19, I ended up being introduced
to an owner of a tattoo shop,
and he and I, we just clicked.
He told me that if I wanted to learn,
I could bring him six drawings by the end of the week
and if he felt that I had potential
that he would teach me, and he liked them,
so I started apprenticing, and I just ended
up falling in love with the art form
and went from kind of being afraid
to be in the shop and kind of intimidated
by all of the guys to being there every single day
from like one PM till one AM.
Being a female artist in the tattoo world
can be pretty challenging.
It is a very male-dominated industry.
I would say maybe we don't always fit in
the way the guys fit in,
but I hold my own, and I allow my work
to speak for itself.
So the outline's done, lets' start some shading now.
- I love it, this is the stuff that's worth it.
- Oh my goodness, okay that hurts.
That is the closest to my armpit.
Oh, okay.
- I feel like all my other tattoos are really like
strong-handed, very like bold outlines,
and this is so just pretty and soft.
- So I'm gonna switch out needles.
We're gonna start using a shader needle,
which is a little bit of a bigger grouping.
- [Jazzmyne] Okay.
- Nine needles now instead of one.
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We're almost done, getting ready to finish up.
We're just gonna add a little bit highlight
to really make the flowers pop and we'll be done.
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- Why does it hurt so bad?
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Okay.
Everything's fine.
- Check it out my dear, you're done.
- Wow, that is so beautiful!
- All right, we're done.
(yelling)
- Oh my god.
- It's really, so different than everything else.
- This looks incredible.
It looks like 3D, this little line right here is
so skinny and tiny, how did you do that?
- Thank you.
- Yeah, my pleasure.
- I love it. - Yay.
- Thank you so much!
- Yeah, my pleasure.
- Oh my goodness, seriously, every second of pain
was 1000% worth it.
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