When tattoo artist Brianna Mendez was growing up, she says she wasn’t allowed to use temporary tattoos. She said that inkling made her even more curious about tattooing.
“It had an effect on me,” she said.
Mendez, who goes by Honey Bee Ink , is a tattoo artist at The Coven , a collective of woman tattooers in Anchorage. She began apprenticing in 2024…