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- Alright so today is a very exciting day,
because it's tattoo day.
One of the things you may not know,
is that celebration actually has an
entire tattoo pavilion of amazing artists,
that are here giving Star Wars tattoos to superfans.
Like me, I'm getting my first tattoo today.
And this is the amazing woman that's doing it.
This is Brandi Smart.
She is major skilled, major artist.
And I'm lucky enough to get a tattoo from her.
And what I'm getting, is this fine piece of work
which is by an artist named Tom Whalen,
who awesomely allowed me to do it.
You can find his stuff at strongstuff.net
online if you want to see more of his work.
But, in the meantime, it's really gonna be
all about Brandi's amazing work.
- I'm so excited. - Thank you.
- Let's get started.
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So, in a quick five sentence, what do you
usually tell someone that's never had a tattoo before?
- [Brandi] Tattoo's don't tickle.
(laughing)
Then just expect
A lot of people are always asking what areas
are going to hurt the least.
- [Host] Right.
- [Brandi] It's different for everyone.
Somebody's ribs might be really awful.
I might have somebody that sobs getting their ribs done.
I have somebody the next time who is ticklish there.
And they're giggling while they're getting it done.
It's, and my ribs were fine.
The inside of my ankles were awful.
So, it's really different for everyone.
Just assume when you go into it,
that it's not going to feel good.
And it actually helps a little bit
for people to expect something really
awful, and then they're like, "oh that's it?"
Because that's always what you get is "that's it?"
- [Host] Well then I'm in good shape,
because I'm expecting it to hurt really bad.
(laughing)
I have no pain tolerance, and I might say bad words.
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One of the other things I want to know is
how did you end up here?
- [Brandi] Marc Draven is the one
that puts Ink Fusion together.
I was lucky enough for him to find me,
through one of my mentors.
And, since then, I've spent a year before that
building up my skills to be good
enough to be a part of this.
- [Host] Cool.
- [Brandi] And then, since then I've just
been following him around, everything he does.
- [Host] Yeah, this girl spends a lot of time on the road.
She tattoos all over the place.
Appearing at events like this, because she is awesome,
and is a part of this magical
traveling band of artists, i love it.
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- So it is officially done, i have my first tattoo.
Way easier than I thought.
Didn't feel awesome the whole time, but it went great.
Thanks to this woman.
Brandi, thank you so much, that was amazing.
- Thank you.
For your first tattoo, you sat pretty awesome.
- It didn't hit anybody. - You didn't
budge, at all.
It was great.
- Let that be a lesson to everyone else,
it might not be as bad as you think.
(laughing)
So we're here at celebration and we're
going to check out some more awesome tattoo art.
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