Saturday, April 12, 2008

HOTTEST TATTO ARTIST!!!!

We all know the huge success that Miami Ink have made in Tv. Millions of viewers support and see this program all around the world. A simple idea to cut through into television. A few years ago , Kat Born D born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Von D moved to the United States when she was four, settling in Colton, California[1] Her father René von Drachenberg is of German descent and her mother, Sylvia Galeano has Spanish-Italian roots, but were both born in Argentina[2][3]. She speaks fluent Spanish and English.
Growing up in the Inland Empire, she made her first tattoo at age 14, a logo of the rock band Misfits.[5] In early 1996, her friends asked her to pick up the machine and work on them (her first effort was a Misfits skull with a homemade rig). In 1998, she began working in her first professional shop, Sin City Tattoo. This was a great period of growth in her work and led to her eventually moving to True Tattoo for a chance to work with Clay Decker and Chris Garver. This afforded her the opportunity to live and work in Hollywood, Los Angeles.[6] While working at True Tatto, Von D met her ex-husband, Oliver Peck, and occasionally worked at his tattoo shop "Elm Street Tattoo" in Dallas, Texas.
Besides her tattoo career, Von D has also appeared in a version of HIM's music video for "Killing Loneliness". She has appeared on such shows as Tom Green's House Tonight, Late Night with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and The Ellen Degeneres Show.
She is also sponsored by the soda company Jones Soda [8] and has worked with Vitamin Angels, a non-profit organization that fights child blindness caused by vitamin deficiencies.
Kat Von D has collaborated with professional skaters Bam Margera, Chad Muska, and Mike Vallely on their new skateboard deck graphics.
Kat Von D started Musink, which is a collaboration between famous bands and tattooers alike. In February 2008 Musink opened for the first time at the Orange County fairgrounds.

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