Legally Meghan
MEGHAN BETH PAGLIARONI
Age: 21
From: Somerset originally, now living in Swansea.
Time tattooing: Over a year now.
Time at the shop: Nearly two years.
Favorite tattoo/piercing: Tattoo: Definately a toss up between my Alice in Wonderland sleeve, which is in progress, or the diamond on my hand. It's so hard to choose only one! Piercing: My favorite piercing would have to be my nose (right side with a stud and a ring) and my vertical labret.
Interests: "I'm a girl and in being such, I love to shop. If I have money longer than two weeks, I feel the urge to shop! But I do love video games."
Favorite videogame of all time: "Final Fantasy 7. FTW. I've still got my fingers crossed for the remake. Come ON, SquareEnix!! Revive the PS3!"
Favorite colors: Black and pink
Favorite pieces she's done: A grimreaper werewolf, a really cool falcon with a sugar skull hood and a googly eyed goldfish.
Random fact: "I'm really strange and a huge geek, but I've become strangely comfortable with it."
A shop fixture for the past two years, former apprentice under owner Paul Sobreiro, Meghan Beth Pagliaroni has been tattooing for more than a year now and is finally legal ... to tattoo.
It isn't just her legions of fans or loyal customers who are happy to see her apprentice label and its associated responsibilities hit the bricks either.
"I don't miss being an apprentice ... not in the least," Pagliaroni said.
Unfortunately, the promotion didn't do much to help with the teasing that comes with being the only woman in the shop full-time. (Part-timer Korey Pirtle started in December.)
"Although I don't get picked on as bad, I still get it on a daily basis!"
Pagliaroni holds her own however.
"As soon as I turned 18, my cousin Tony had me come to the shop and Kenny gave me a few piercings, and not too long after Paul was tattooing me. Who knew that he would end up hiring me! The poor bastard!!"
"I hounded Paul a lot to hire me, and one day he actually took me up on the offer! And now I get my kicks annoying the hell out of him."
Averaging 11-hour days at the tattoo shop for the last few months, Pagliaroni has come a long way from working at Aeropostale and Reds Quickzone gas station.
"I can't see myself doing anything else with my life. I'm 21 and I'm living my dream," Pagliaroni said.
"I'd always loved art and I've been drawing since I could hold a crayon without eating it. It always seemed natural to persue a career in art, but until I moved to New Hampshire, I'd never even considered the possibility of tattooing."
"I hung around a lot of tattoo shops in my neighborhood and quickly developed a love for it. When I moved back to Massachusetts, I went from shop to shop looking for someone to take me in."
"The only place I found some hope in was XBody. The environment was so relaxing and the guys were really awesome. I was there every chance I could be until they finally gave me the chance I wanted so badly."
So with a year of tattooing under her belt, where does Pagliaroni have her sights set?
"I really like doing black and grey work," she said. "And I would really like to get into portraits."
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