00:10For me, a tattoo is, you know, it's an expression of someone's inner self on their
00:16outer self. It's a magical kind of thing to me. I don't want to be someone that is
00:23like, hey, look at me, this is what I do. It's not about that for me. It's about
00:27this is the work. That's me. I'm Rox. I live in San Francisco, and I'm a tattoo artist.
00:35I grew up in London. At that time, I think there were very few women tattooing in the
00:40world, let alone in the city that I grew up in. I knew of one. So I basically taught
00:46myself. I started out with chopsticks and needles tied to chopsticks and hand-poking
00:53people and graduated to getting a machine and an autoclave and doing it properly as
01:00much as I could.
01:06I used to see people tattoo and I'd just be like, bloody hell, how can they do that,
01:11you know? And it just, it's just, it's just years upon years of doing it. And I think people
01:18often don't realize that to get good at something or relatively good at it, you can't just be
01:25like, oh, I'm not good at this. I'm going to give up, do something else. It was like
01:29always a competition between me and myself. And you just have to keep on keeping on. You
01:35know, a lot of people come from places like Australia, Kuwait, Taiwan, New Zealand. It's
01:42a lot, you know, it's a lot of pressure for the artists too, to do great work when someone's
01:47gone to the trouble of flying halfway across the world. I feel really lucky to have been,
01:55you know, acknowledged the way I have been. And I feel like it's super difficult, you know,
01:59sort of just sitting in a corner and making the best work you can. It'll make people, you
02:03know, see the work. I mean, I just feel like if you do work that's good enough, everyone's
02:08going to see the beauty in it, you know.
