new ink + work in prog

 (seems like all I'm posting these days are works in progress and new tattoos)

I mentioned before that Morgan and I were going in for some tattoos, and here they are!
 
This was taken right after we finished, so they're still real dark and mine is pretty red (morgan on left, me on right). It was well after 4am by the time we finished. Ha. Thanks Derick Montez for the beautiful beautiful design & tattooing! (And thanks for putting up with my moment by moment pain evaluation.) He busted out a sketch for us in like 30 minutes while we went and got Jack in the Box curly fries (a weird tradition of ours). It was perrrrrfect. Took about 2+ hours each. Troopers!
all healed up now.


Morgan and I have been collecting skeleton keys for years, and I'm almost always wearing at least two around my neck. One year for my birthday Morgan gave me a bunch of hers, our 10th birthday maybe? I thought I had lost them in the move to San Francisco, but I found 'em hiding in an old jewlery box in my closet. I think I cried a little bit (oh I'm such a sap sometimes). Well, I don't want to lose them again, so I made one permanent.

Okay. Enough about that.
I've been putting the finishing details on this piece, it's nearly done.

I have another day or two left on the tattoos before it goes off to the New Brow group show over at The Alternative Cafe. Gonna be a fun show!

Also I'm super excited cause I'm getting a new studio space next month. It's super spacious and sunny and perrrrrfeccttt and I can't wait! yay.

okbye
xx

Photoshoot

Yesterday the lovely Natali Truax came by my studio for a photoshoot. Here are a few. More later.

painting in my undies. teehee ;)

(I did some rearranging in my studio recently, but it's still not quite finished. I am much happier with my new setup. I was kind of in a weird little corner before and it was like an obstacle course to get over there sometimes. Dropping a brush on the floor was like, the worst thing ever. I had to do these weird acrobatic long-arm reaches to get to said fallen object. Plus, I'm surrounded by all my treasures now, like glass bottles, keys, candles & boat bookends! lalala)

We also went out in my patio for a little bit. San Francisco has been strangely warm the past couple of weeks. (luckily for me)

hairweaveeeee. Sadly my hair isn't quite this long.

This one is my personal favorite :)

Have a lovely weekend my dears ❤

hairs cut

I've been wanting to do this for a while now.

Aveline and I are twinsies now (except I don't have silvery light blue hair and four eyes). It was just one of those things. I was going stir crazy with my hair, wanted to cut it but I didn't want bangs again or short hair, it just made sense. Aaaand it's inevitable, I'm starting to look like my painted ladies.
 It's a fun cut, you either love it or hate it ;)

Also, if I part my hair down the middle you can't even tell. It's like a little secret

Then later that night I cut Morgan's hair. With big kitchen shears. And I lint-rolled her back when we were done. ahahaha it works like a charm!

It has been a nice and rainy weekend with plenty of tea-drinking and Twin Peaks watching. Audrey Horne is such a baaaabe. Now excuse me while I go back to watching ;)

C