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The Evolution of Sarah de Azevedo
By Jeanette Moses
Jeanette@slugmag.com
Sarah de Azevedo’s interest in tattooing began at the unlikely
age of 16, after one of her friends received an awful fairy tattoo
in someone’s basement. “This thing had the biggest sailor
boobs,
dread locks,
pissedoff
cheek
bones,
one arm
was super
long and
the fingers
looked like
sausages,”
she jokes.
“I looked
at it and
thought,
I can do
a better
job than
that blindfolded.”
In 2002,
at 18, de
Azevedo
landed an
apprenticeship at Big Deluxe under Rich D. She had
completed just one semester of college and had decided
that all she wanted to do was tattoo. “All I could do was
just doodle on all of my papers,” she jokes. Eighteen may
seem ridiculously early to make such an important decision,
but de Azevedo had always been in love with art. “All I ever
did was draw,” she says. She still has notebooks filled with
drawings of pews and the backs of peoples heads that she
created when she was 6 years old in sacrament meetings.
Although
the majority
of her family
are active
members
of the LDS
Church,
they have
been
nothing but
supportive
of her
career
choice.
“I brought
in a
sketchbook
to some of
the tattoo
shops that I
would want
to work in
to ask their
opinions,”
she says.
“I just kept
going back
in to show
that I was
serious.”
After