Mekaya Martinez has loved tattoos since she was 12 years old. When she was 17, she got her first tattoo on her lower back so she could hide it from her mom.
“I was used to painting and drawing, and once I started seeing people on TV or other family members, adults that had tattoos, I was like, ‘that’s so cool,’” Martinez said. “It’s like a drawing, but it’s on them forever, and it seemed so interesting to me.”
Now Martinez has opened her own tattoo business in her hometown of Santa Barbara at Phenix Salon Suites in suite 106 at 130 S. Hope Ave. in La Cumbre Plaza…