Name: Mandy

• DOB: I am old enough to get pierced, tattooed, smoke, drink, but not yet allowed to rent a car.
• Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii
• I AM part indigenous Hawaiian, BORN and RAISED in Hawaii.  Don’t get it twisted.  There’s a difference.
• Kamehameha Graduate, Whitman College Educated
• Apprenticed at Island Tattoo/Tattoo Krew, Hawaii, by Ryan Lau, Bong Padilla, Lucky Olelo, Bernz Lacar, Tattoo Rich, Mike Cacal, Justin Lam
• Currently at Soul Signature Tattoo with Lucky Olelo, Aisea Toetu’u, Lopeti Toetu’u, Jessico Serano, Tin Nguyen.
• Tattoo Inspirations, here in HI: Everyone I work and have worked with, especially the love of my life, Lucky Olelo.  Also, Billy Whitney of 808Tattoo…Steve Looney and Paulo of Pacific Soul… the Boys of Banzai…and our overseas friend, Steve MaChing
• Tattoo Inspirations: I can’t ever possibly accurately explain to you how much I look up to Adrian Lee and drool over his work.  AND he’s vegetarian… Brownie Points!  There are too many to name and I have my nightly headache.
• I LOVE: My Hubby.  Gorillas.  Black.  Red.  Dead Girl Tattoos & Art.  Victorian Art.  Vampires. My Papa. Gore.  Blood.  Bondage.  Broken people.  Depth.  Introspection.  My Daddy.  True 20’s-50’s pin-up chicks.  Wine.  Boobs.  Lingerie.  Razors.  Guns.  Knives.  Tears.  Bizarre Endeavours.  Melancholy and morbidity (this drives my paintings).  Emotion.  Harleys (Yes, I ride).  Mungo Beans (I don’t care what you think, my grandma makes them the BEST, ever).  Old Cars.  The word CUNT (it’s funny how people avoid it like the black plague).  My music (I am a child of the grunge/new metal, gothic underground age, etc. So if you don’t bring your iPod when you get tattooed, you’ll probably end up listening to that stuff, you have been warned).  Uncrowded places.  When it rains.  Waking up when the world is just starting it’s day (the calm and crispness in the air, could do without the people, haha)
• I HATE: …………..haha that changes every second.
• A year ago I wrote, “I want to go to Thailand more than anything” and I got my wish!
• I WOULD KILL for the following concerts… KORN, Muse, Slipknot, Prodigy, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Marilyn Manson and Motley Crue (wouldn’t hurt to see Tool and NIN again)…  And if Janis Joplin were alive, and Creedence Clearwater Revival were still together.  I could die happy.
• Nothing I say or think usually makes sense.  Sometimes I like being uncomfortable.
• I’ve been a gypsy for most of my life, and I liked it. And I’m destructive and usually discombobulated, but very organized…
• This is the first time I feel like I belong to something.  And someone.  Tattooing has literally saved my life.