My Town

Art Where the Sun Always Shines

Walking down a San Diego beach on a warm sunny day you’ll be hard pressed to find any scantily-clad sun bather without a work of art to display on their skin. The city’s warm weather helps the tattoo scene gain its popularity simply by allowing the bodyart enthusiast to clearly display their ink for the world to see.

“We have a lot more tourism here,” Jim Thomas of Black Rose Tattoo says. “And we have the beach so there’s a lot more skin showing so of course a lot more people are interested in body art than elsewhere in the U.S.”