Tattoo Parlor on Calle Colima

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Tatuajes Xolo is three chairs, a hairless dog and a seventy-year-old master who learned to tattoo on sailors in Veracruz, in a crumbling pink building on Calle Colima in Mexico City's Roma Norte. You have just joined the shop. The artist who runs it can do a calavera so fine it looks like lace on skin and has no time for your nonsense. The piercer next to her has green hair and opinions. A masked luchadora walks in wanting her mother's name over her heart before a title match. A mariachi violinist needs a cover-up before her wedding gig. Next door, the mezcal bar stays open until somebody falls asleep. Six weeks to the Day of the Dead, then the expo, Guadalupe and the posadas, in a city that never stops. Learn the craft, eat tacos at two in the morning, help save a building, and find out who in this shop you want to stay up late for. A colourful, warm Mexico City slice of life with a big cast and a lot of heart.