About Me

I’m gonna go ahead and use this space to just spew facts about myself to you! I feel like since people are trusting me to permanently alter their bodies, they should feel comfortable around me. If this kind of stuff isn’t important to you, then just skip this section. I promise I won’t quiz you on it at your appointment… although that would be unhinged and kinda funny.

I was born in Valpo and moved to LaPorte when I was really young. Ewwwwww, right?

I moved to South Bend to go to IUSB for graphic design. I stayed there for three years before I realized I actually hate graphic design. Just picturing myself sitting in a room designing logos and shirts for boring companies I didn’t care about freaked me out, so I bailed and decided to pursue a different art career that would be more rewarding. I also thought about trying to get into video game design, but tattooing was my dream job from the time I was a kid.

While looking for a tattoo apprenticeship, I worked in an abortion clinic as a patient educator. And BOY OH BOY was that an interesting chapter of my life. Anyone who chooses to spend their time harassing patients outside of a clinic deserves to die by some weird Medieval torture device.

Sometime around 2014, I was offered an apprenticeship at Bicycle Tattoo in South Bend. It still boggles my mind that things worked out for me. I’ve never been good at speaking up for myself and straight up asking for stuff. I stayed at Bicycle up until it closed and joined up with other artists to form a larger shop called Mystic Union. That’s where I work now!

I’ve been tattooing for about 9-10 years now. I usually LOVE quitting jobs when things get stressful, so this is the longest I’ve ever stayed at a workplace. I genuinely love it here. My coworkers at Mystic Union are all equally motivated and excited to dedicate their lives to the body modification field, and it’s really encouraging to be surrounded by likeminded folks.

-I have two ferrets (Baby and Fat Boy), a whole gang of hermit crabs, three cats (Kevin, Biggins, and Tails), a ball python (Samantha), and two dogs (Tuco and Dabura).
-I love video games. Especially on PC, PS5, and Switch. My favorite franchise since childhood has been Zelda. But I do love me some Scum, Satisfactory, Cult of the Lamb, Castlevania, BG3, No Man’s Sky, Skyrim, Valheim, and anything DBZ.
-I fall into the generation of people who were raised by the internet, so my humor is stupid edge lord crap and shit posting.
-I don’t have or want kids. They freak me out. Childbirth sounds like body horror to me. I’m fascinated by it, but I would MUCH rather hear your stories about it than go through it myself.
-I love to pick up crafty side hobbies that I know I won’t stick with. My house is a graveyard of half completed projects.
-My taste in music is Bones, Three6Mafia, Shakewell, $uicideboy$, Denzel Curry, and that kinda stuff. I was a huge Marilyn Manson stan as a kid, and I grew up in a pretty 80’s-2000’s metal household. But I honestly just listen to rap for the most part nowadays.

Things that take up space in my head, rent-free:
- Wildboyz, Kenny vs Spenny, The Eric Andre Show, I Think You Should Leave, Detroiters, and Broad City.

  • This is what I look like. I’ll probably be wearing a mask when you see me for like 90% of the time.

  • This s my partner, Goat. He’s holding Tuco when he was less than a year old, and we built him a snowman for his first winter.

  • This is Dabura. She’s named after the DBZ character, and her name is really fitting because she spits when she barks. She hates eveyone who isn’t Goat or I, so if you get barked at in the parking lot when you arrive at the shop, it’s her.

  • MY BOOOOOOY

  • This is Tuco the day we brought him home.
    He was a little potato baby.
    I called him Egg Head a lot.

  • This is when I first got my snake, who we call Samantha because "Samantha the snake" is super basic and cracks us up. She's gotten a lot bigger since then. She is scared of her own poop.

  • This frame is a reference to the Eric Andre show, which I am in love with. I’m wearing my finest @frogwizardtattoos shirt in this photo, as an extra bonus.

  • I took this selfie the week I got my tongue split. I still had the stitches on at the time, which means I was likely in a lot of pain. That healing process was very quick but very uncomfortable. My cat's name is Kevin, and she's a girl. We are making the same face.

  • This is a real, unedited photo of me hanging out with my daddy, Sesshomaru. When I was in elementary school, I used to stay up late to watch shows like Inuyasha on Adult Swim. Then in middle school, I realized only weird people watched anime. Now, thankfully, I don’t care. So, I’m back to watching whatever I want.

  • Halloween, 2021, my coworkers and I all dressed up as wrestlers for a flash event. Here is my extremely last-minute Shawn Michaels costume. I got into wrestling during quarantine because it's like real life, white trash anime and I love it. The Sexy Boy theme song is the main reason I love Shawn Michaels, I'll admit it.

  • POV: You’re my client. This is me tattooing. You'll probably see something similar to this in real life, since you're on this page right now. So, unless I say some exceptionally weird shit on this website, hopefully you’ll be at my station very soon!

  • This is me when I was like 22. I can tell by the amount of bare, untattooed skin that I have showing. I chose this picture because I miss having my forehead pierced, I miss my grey-lavender hair, and I wanted to show off my dad's dog, Grumpy. Also, my boobs looked nice.