My Dear Friends of Inked It’s a Rite of Passage to get like a [__] up piercing in Saint Mark’s and then you know like drink on the steps of Search and Destroy before it had new owners and that was super weird like it’s like it’s a thing when the papaya dog was still on the corner you get a little snack you get a.
Little piercing if you feel like getting a tattoo you get a really shitty tattoo you know it’s fun it’s like a carnival from Hell On a Block great my name is Dorian Ferrer I am a baker and a tooth gem artist I’ve been baking since I was six years old and.
Um goal is to open a bakery very soon I do like very extravagant birthday cakes wedding cakes that type of vibe and then two’s gems I’ve been doing since 2017 and it’s just it means to an end I take the money from the tooth jumping and I put it towards my Little Dream New York is an interesting place to grow up.
That is the nicest way I could put it you grow up real fast and you end up in a lot of a lot of but it’s fun I mean you have so much at your fingertips constantly so you like been going to nightclub since I was 14. like you just you end up like outside and like a lot quicker than I think most kids do elsewhere you know you meet so.
Many different types of people you can it’s like the city of finessing you can get into anything I was going to like fashion week after Parties By the time I was like 16. I was in like at [__] mosquito after party I had no business being there with a bottle of champagne in my hands but I was there you know it doesn’t make sense really to people that.
Aren’t from here but like you just grow up really fast and then you get really tired and that’s why at the ripe age of 24 I’m retired basically and I barely go out because it’s exhausting like the most like Grandma Abuelita [__] possible it’s like yeah I’m 24 but I like to be inside and just you know make.
My little cakes and mind my business I was always a weird artsy kid and like my dad’s musician my mom is like quite artistic herself so I think that I was just raised in an environment where it was like like I was encouraged to be incredibly independent I was encouraged to you know speak for myself and do.
Whatever I want to do with my life I knew that I always kind of wanted to be tattooed like when I was like two and three I would like cover myself in all those fake tattoos like they’re literally like baby photos of me and my brother sitting at the park of him like covering me in temporary tattoos I’ve just something I’ve always been.
Fascinated with I’ve always been fascinated with body adornment and I Knew by that age that I wanted more so are we just about starting me and my friend Pearl started stick and poking each other with sewing needles on the back of a number two pencil and thread and India ink that we stole from Blick.
And I had like fallen for my first girl ever and like she broke my heart and I was like you know what like I want to get a tattoo to symbolize this and so my friend Pearl tattooed girl power the abbreviation the GRL pwr on my pelvic bone yeah and now it’s blurred out and it says girl purr.
So my first tattoo no other tattoo has really been that painful ever it was so it was so much it was so much and it’s like the ink is like green now and I was like I should cover it up and I was like nah that’s a story so yeah that’s that’s that’s my first.
Tattoo my first professional tattoo was um the dots on my fingers and the bucket in my own handwriting 16. so you know going into school then with get on your arm and having to tell them that you write it in pen every day was interesting it’s all very interesting teenage years.
But I also had like my tongue pierced and like you know I was like on one so my mom kind of just it’s like all right she didn’t like it but she was just like there’s nothing like I literally I just kept going to St Mark’s and getting work I got like my nipples pierced and [__] St Marks as the devil’s lair for a teenage girl let me tell you you.
Can get a 40 a tattoo and your nipples pierced all in one all in one block so yeah I never expected to be this tattooed when I started like at all and when I started I was like yeah I’m gonna go for more like the Zoe Kravitz like Miley Cyrus like little tattoos like here and.
There clearly we went a different route but um I kind of like liked seeing my own skin still so I knew I didn’t want to be like covered like that but also like at that time a lot of the tattoo styles that I have right now weren’t really popularized so I think because a lot of cool Styles.
Have kind of come out recently in like fine line kind of took over the market in a way it like made me want to be covered so like this was a choice much later on but I’ve been getting tattooed since I was 15. so all happened very fast I’ll have it real fast.
I like symmetry I’m not an asymmetrical [__] I really like symmetry I like order so Virgo so you know I just I decided on symmetry very early on it’s like these two were the ones that like set it off and I got these when I was like 18 and I was like all right we’re just gonna Bing [__] [__] and.
There’s something about the mirroring of it like I’m symmetrical but like slightly different but it like still makes sense and like to me that shows like thought and Care in the process and I love that I always know like where I want to get tattooed next like I always like prioritize certain.
Spots and like I have a concept of like this like amorphous shape of what I want it to be but I’ve gotten a lot less picky in like the last three years like I’ve been I call it my joke tattoo era because I have like some really well done tattoos but it’s comedy like Melody just did guns and I was like yeah check out my.
Guns like comedy like so silly I have live laugh go [__] yourself comedy but so beautifully done that’s my joke tattoo era so a lot of them are just kind of like get wee ball basically at this point like I have a spider web coming out of my [__] why because he he ha because why not.
I think I took all of my tattoos really seriously for so long because I like wanted a good foundation but I knew that I always like I would see other people’s like silly tattoos and I’d be so jealous because I’m like damn I want to do [__] tattoos but I feel like you have to get to like a point of like good ones.
And then you can start to like throw in the really silly ones and now that I’m in my city era I it’s not that I like care less about them I care about them equally because they’re also really beautiful always but it’s just more fun it’s just so it’s so silly it’s so fun and like everybody else knows it’s silly too so like when.
We’re done with the tattoo we’re just like dying laughing about it it’s fun a lot more playful for sure but the one that people talk about the most is my Amy Winehouse tattoo because I have Amy Winehouse that’s Kali on my arm and that’s the one that everyone’s always like wait is that and I’m like yes it is and she has a teeny tiny.
Little cigarette coming out of her teeth that one gets the most attention for sure but I think it takes people like a hot second to then be like wait does that say live laugh Go stuff away what does that say and but it’s fun I enjoy talking about my tattoos with people who are respectful.
Also like being from here no one like really stares at me like that so going other places and then getting stairs is like I didn’t do this for attention but you know people are gonna think what they want to think they’re like oh I’m staring at you because you’re covered in tattoos and this is what you wanted.
Right it’s like no actually I wanted to look in the mirror and be like that’s a bad [__] there isn’t much that I would change I’ve had like two cover-ups but that was from like really early on and it was my chest my chest the cover-up piece because I got like two.
New American traditional roses done at the [__] club No Lie literally in the middle of a club full machine out set up on a [__] drinking table I’m like leaned back in a booth getting two traditional roses tattooed on my [__] chest I’m really happy she didn’t fully finish.
Them because then I was able to cover them up but that’s the only one that I would not have anything done if I could go back because then I would have been able to have like a different chess piece situation like I would have been able to have it be finer like the rest of my tattoos but.
You let me learn you live you learn it was after that that I was like okay we’re not gonna do that again we’re not doing that again I’m not really one of those girls I might be like hi thank you so much for watching you can find me on Instagram feed for rare my bakery account is me out.nyc.
Pay me you can use that there you go I was like I’m not gonna do it in a serious way I’ll do it in a jokingly though
Like most kids who were raised in New York City, Dorian Ferrer grew up quick. Hanging out on St Mark’s is quite a trip for a teenager, as Dorian recalls, a teenager could get pierced, drunk and tattooed without even leaving the same block. Now 24 and in her silly tattoo era, Dorian opens up about the way she built her collection, the importance of symmetry and more.
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