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rading her ink needles for an ink pen, tattoo artistand reality-TV star Kat Von D will.be signingcopies of her new book, "The Tattoo Chronicles"

at Book Revue in Huntington tonight.

Kat Von Dbook signingWHEN Tonight at 7WHERE Book Revue,313 NewYork Ave., HuntingtonINFO 631-271-1442:bookrevue.com

tal for a person, and it's anup-close and intimate timewhile you're tattooing them.And they feel they're notgonna be judged, and theyopenly share and knowthey'll be listened to.

That's what my book isabout, that we should be ableto listen to each other. Proba-bly the best lesson I everlearned from my clients overthe years is how to do that.The best way is to be genuine-ly interested in what pegplg,,,,,

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BY FRANK TOVECE

Special to Newsddy

Von D, 28, is the entrepre-neurial owner of High Volt-age Tattoo in Hollywood,Calif., and the star of theTLC series based there, "L.A.Ink." She's also the creator ofa Sephora makeup line(which includes tattoo con-cealer), the founder of theMuslnk Tattoo & MusicFestival and author of twobooks, this and 2009's auto-biographical "High VoltageTattoo." Her new bookadapts her daily journal toweave her personal experienc-es with those of celebrityand civilian clients.

You say in the book you some-times feel like a therapist asclients talk while getting tat-tooed?

When you give a tattoo,generally it's very monumen-

are sayinf. I wasn't like that inthe beginning, but I've beenable to learn.

Tattoo is closely tied with bodyimage and nontraditionalideals of beauty. Yet the bookhas a lot of traditional glamourshots of you. Did you want toTV starltattooist Kat Von D will be at Huntington's Book Revue.

say, "No, shoot me as I am, nospecial lighting or makeup, justthe normal way I look everyday"?

I think that's probably the onlything I didn't see eye-to-eye onwith the publisher. The publishersaid we need more pictures ofyou. But they're not like Maxim[magazine-style pinupJ shots.

Tattooing was illegal in New YorkCity from 1961to 1997, and cer'tainly very few women had them.It was all much more under-ground. Now, everyone seems tohave a tattoo. What changed?

Even just l0 years ago, tattoo-ing wzts so different than it isnow. Part of that has to do withthe popularity of television showslike "L.A. Ink" and showing to themasses that tattooing is an artform and not something negative.'It was surrounded by stigma forrro long.

Tire book details your great loveaftfair with Miitley Criie passistNil,ski Sixx. Since you're in thepu,blic eye and have moved on tosorneone else [Sandra Bullock'sex,.lesse Jamesl there seems a

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Kat Von D, staf of 'L.A. lnlG" is acanvas for her trade.

missing piece in the book. whichnever explains how this soul'mate relationship could haveended. lt's li(e a clifftranger.

I don't think so. I think I left itopen. I do talk about the ups anddowns Nikki and I had, some ofthe struggles in that relationship,and in the end you have to live inthe moment. There was not reallYany{ring I could say to tie it upwitfii'nice little bow, becausethat's life.

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