#ladytats

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Maud Stevens Wagner - the first known female tattoo artist in the United States (1907)

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Mostly, and I hate to be selective, this list is aimed more at the ladies than the menfolk. I hate to be selective, but, girls, you are the worst offenders. I can almost guess which of these images you're about to show me when you pull out your pink, blingy iPhone and start scrolling through the images. And I wait and wait as your squared-off plastic french manicure thumbnail taps the screen repepatedly while you search through all the duckface pics you made in the ladies' room at Chipotle.

This blog post bummed me out. Not because I don't totally get where the unidentified tattooer who wrote it is coming from, and not because I don't totally agree. It's more that he (and we can saaaaafely assume that the author is a "he") clumps all ladies getting tattoos into the duck-facing-blingy-iPhone-dumb-bitch category.

To be sure, there are a lot of these girls out there. And to be sure, a lot of them are getting tattoos and more often than not, they're getting dumb tattoos. But let's be real for a sec: are these the only kind of girls getting tattooed? Not if you work in a decent shop.

If the only ladies you're tattooing are getting fairies and exploding feathers and Kat Von D stars and "skank flank," then maybe the problem lies more with the shop you're working in than the ladies you're tattooing. Most of my tattooer friends agree that more ladies than dudes are getting tatted these days. There's a lot of douchey tattoos going around, cause it's trendy and whatever, but there's a lot of ill tattoos as well. And if you work somewhere that's not a shitty street shop or in some lame podunk city, then you get to do some from time to time.

And btw, "I hate to be selective" is basically the same as "Not to sound racist": if you're saying it, then you are.