Through My Eyes

Follow facial tattooing throughout history until present day as seen through the eyes of Pati Pavlik, an artist who broke into tattooing under the tutelage of Little Dave Spellman at Santa Ana Tattoo Studio in l979.

Pati chronicles the birth of the National Tattoo Association, the first tattoo conventions,supplier giant, Huck Spaulding, and the shift from the underground cash tattoo parlor of the 70's to the current mainstream upscale business, complete with ATM's and American Express. Along the way you experience many rights of passage for the old time tattoo artist – such as her trip to buy her first machines from Colonel William Todd in the basement under the famed Bert Grimm Tattoo Studio.

This book details the coming of age of both the figurative art form and the current permanent makeup trends in a straightforward personal style that stirred many of my own memories. I give huge kudos to anyone who makes the effort to painstakingly record a history that is so often maligned and misquoted. Pati tells it straight. Read it. Keep it. And jot down a few notes yourself about key points that have happened in your own personal tattoo journey.

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