Tattoo star expands body of work in 'Ink'

Success does have some downsides.

Just ask Kat Von D, who rose to national prominence as part of the team on TLC's reality series "Miami Ink," and who tomorrow night launches her own show, "LA Ink."

"I feel like I have a lot more responsibility as far as showing tattooing in a good light," Von D told the Daily News. "The tattooing industry, they love me or hate me. It's different when you're on TV, everything you're doing is overanalyzed by your peers."

It's a phenomenon faced by the folks at Orange County Choppers, after they hit big on the Discovery Channel as well - and their draw of fans at motorcycle shows soared.

"I've had to learn a few things," said Von D, whose moniker is short for Katherine Von Drachenberg. "I've had to weed out my friends." Von D admits she doesn't understand why that happens, either, because she's rooting for everyone to succeed.

"LA Ink," launching tomorrow at 10 p.m., follows Von D as she moves from Miami to Los Angeles, where she opens her new shop. That shop, however, is populated with mostly female artists. In Miami, she was the only female in the bunch.

"I've built this shop from the ground up," she says. "It's all me. I've put my heart and soul into it. You'll be able to see that in this show." The show will have a higher celebrity quotient as clients of Von D's shop, too. TLC has also heavily promoted the new show with giant billboards and with fold-out images of Von D's tattooed body - she got her first when she was 14 - in major magazines.

While she treats her body as a canvas (she's had more than 30 tattoo artists work on her), she's not spent a lot of time looking at the promos. "It's kind of like hearing your voice on an answering machine," she said. "That's my face on a 20-story billboard," she added. "I just think I'm a big nerd."

A big nerd who has had a hand in the changing face of tattooing. Indeed, it's not like the old days, she said; even soccer moms are now sporting ink. "I get people coming up to me saying, 'You're awesome,'" she said. "That's a lot different from the days when I used to go to the mall and people would hold their kids back."

Ensure You Get The Perfect Tattoo – Mistakes Made When Getting A Character Tattoos

You’ve decided on your perfect tattoo. You’re already to get it inked. You’ve picked out the perfect spot for, and have even decided where you’re getting it. You’re even at a point where you know the artist who will be doing the work, and have checked to make sure it is a licensed sterile parlor. So let’s get inked, right?

Wrong! That symbol or character you’ve decide is the perfect tattoo for you, may mean something completely different from what you think it does!

Did you know that the most common reason people get tattoos removed is because that beautiful empowering symbol that they got so perfectly inked on themselves is not what they expect. That’s right, the number one reason people get tattoos removed is a mistranslation. Instead of having that tattoo that says love, or power or honesty or any number of other great things, you’ve ended up with a tattoo that says chicken, or dog, or whatever else that you really didn’t want it to say.

How do you make sure your getting the right thing tattooed on your body? Don’t just take the tattoo artist’s word for it. For all you know they’ve been misinformed and you’ve got the worst tattoo in the world now permanently affixed to your body.
Find someone you know personally and TRUST that can tell you it’s correct. Don’t go just assuming that the person who’s telling you that tattoo means something is correct. You could also try going to a local library and seeing if they have dictionary for that language and find the symbol yourself.

Another common error is the artist misspelling it on your body. Ensure that the stencil is correct and is exactly what you want before you have a single dot of ink placed.

A tattoo is meant to be permanent. If you want yours forever, simply remember to do your due diligence before ever allowing ink to touch your skin. Don’t be one of hundreds if not thousands of people walking around being laughed at and ridiculed for having a tattoo that you thought meant something other then what it really did.

ensure before you ever allow anyone to tattoo anything on your body, that you know and you know for certain what it means. You don’t need to endure the pain of the tattooing, just to have to endure the pain of getting it removed a short while afterwards.

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