Jasmine rodriguez tattoo artist
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Artist’s life may be judged by the body of her work
Jasmine Rodriguez was 12 years old when she made her first visit to a tattoo parlor. Inspired by her father’s tattoo of a fly, she begged him to accompany her to the shop to get some ink of her own. Much to her father’s surprise, Ms. Rodriguez showed no sign of changing her mind even as they sat in the waiting room.
"I didn’t punk out and he said, ‘No, you can’t have a freaking tattoo,’” she recalled. "I didn’t chicken out and that kind of set the tone.”
Two years later, she fulfilled her dream during a visit to Champion Tattooing, located at 5606 Broadway. After dropping out of school at 16, she became an apprentice at the shop and worked her way up.
"My whole life is wrapped around art. It’s my whole entire life besides my children,” she said during an interview at the small but neat second-story tattoo parlor.
The 37-year-old mother of three works at Champion to this day alongside her husband. But she made her mark when she starred in the Spike TV reality series "Tattoo Nightmares.” From 2012 to 2014, Ms. Rodriguez was featured as one of the artists at Madison Tattoos in Los Angeles, where she created body art masterpieces to cover up
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Jasmine Rodriguez
Jasmine Rodriguez is a world-famous tattoo artist famous for hosting the Spike TV reality show Tattoo Nightmares with Tommy Helm and Big Gus. She made her mark starring in the show from 2012 to 2014 when she was one of the artists featured at Madison Tattoos based in Los Angeles, where she created ink masterpieces to cover up tattoos that clients regretted. She has now dedicated more than half of her life to tattooing and art and her aim is to change the life of people whose lives have been affected by a bad tattoo, educating those in the business in the process.
Growing up in Yonkers, New York, Rodriguez always knew she wanted to work in the tattoo industry, and was just 15 years old when she asked the owner of a tattoo shop for a job. A year later she dropped out of school and became an apprentice at Champion Tattooing in the Bronx, and quickly worked her way up. She was taught how to tattoo tradition style by her mentor Angelo “Champion” at the street shop known for script style writing. Since then she has spent two decades tattooing across New York, flying between her home city and LA when she joined the cast of Tattoo Nightmares.
Rodriquez now looks back fondly on her time on the reality show, where she enjoyed meeting different people and showed b
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