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Suzanne Shifflett
Age: 43
Shop: Modern Electric Studio, San Francisco

“I used to get picked on for loving to draw,” San Francisco tattooist Suzanne Shifflett remembers of her time growing up in Belfast, ME. When she announced she wanted to go to art school, her family thought it was a waste of time and chose not to support her, leaving her to pay for it herself.

Her oil painting, sculpting, and drawing skills matured, and after graduation she became the master sculptor for a dildo company and also painted designs on leather jackets on Haight Street. Customers, amazed with her work, encouraged Shifflett to design tattoos. Most tattoo shops wouldn't even look at her drawing portfolio until local tattooist Wayne Bruce Lee took her in for an apprenticeship. Now, 19 years and hundreds of clients later, she owns her own shop and painting studio.

Tattooing has also made her the center of attention. At a convention in Portland, a very hot stripper asked her to cover a name on her pelvis. “I had her sit on the table with me between her legs and her feet on my knees. I proceeded to do a small tribal tattoo that lingered down. When I finished, I turned around to see hundreds of people behind me and on the balcony leaning over to gawk.” Her favorite part of the story: the five male tattooers who approached her afterward with envy. “[Portland tattoo artist] Don Deaton said he'd make it to work early every day if he had a remote possibility of doing such a tattoo.”

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