Margi's Bio - Margi's Tattoo Gallery - Margi's Piercing Gallery

People ask how did you become a tattoo artist….. It’s not such a long story – Cathy Hendrix, a woman I was renting a room from noticed I was drawing, asked me how long I had been drawing for, looked thru my portfolio and asked me if I would like to learn how to tattoo as she was half owner is a local tattoo shop. I replied, "No, that’s not the type of environment I want to work in, drinking, smoking and guys trying to pinch you on the butt…".

A couple of weeks later she invited Ken Williams, working at the Tattoo shop, over for dinner we talked a little bit, nice guy, soft spoken, quite. Then one day she asked me if I wanted to go into the shop. I was kind of apprehensive and didn’t know what to expect. We went into, a small, clean place and there was Kenny putting a pin-up girl on this guys arm, it was BEAUTIFUL! I’ll I could think was WOW I didn’t know you could do that on skin.

Shortly after that I started going in and drawing and just kind of hanging out. Then one day Kenny had an orange for me just to give it a try… my hand hurt all the next day. Eventually I graduated from fruits and vegetable to real skin and well here I am 14 years later with my own studio.

Approximately 9 years ago the studio I was working in was getting a lot of calls for body piercing. Later I attended a Fakir class for body piercing, as there was no Piercing Artist’s the area. It was fun and had a whole different type of energy associated with it.

Thanks to all of you for letting me at beautifying America and beyond.