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Q: Do you have other projects or what’s next?Ī: In my life, what’s next is make up to pay the bills, and animal rescue to fill and satisfy my soul. I also like driving Mulholland (Drive) or along (Laurel) Canyon (Blvd.) here in L.A. Once you get north of Ventura County, on the windy roads, it’s beautiful. Q: Do you have a favourite road trip or highway?Ī: I like the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway No. I just wanted the audience to see the rescue and see that pit bulls weren’t bad dogs, and how this woman (Tia Maria Torres) had devoted her life to the pit bull. Ink episode?Ī: The one where I took Corey Miller to the Villolobos Rescue Center, the largest pit bull rescue centre in the nation. I work in films and music videos, fashion, etc., and I’m still doing that work. I went to two make up schools one in San Francisco and Cinema Make-up school in Los Angeles. If it was a Harley, it would have to have a rigid frame, a springer front end, mid controls, peanut tank, narrow rear tire - not a big fat lame one - no chrome, wrapped pipes I’d want it vintage and gritty.Ī: I was a make up artist, and a waitress and a body piercer. It would have to be very functional I’d actually want to ride it. I’ve always wanted to be on a street bike, and I’d love an old Triumph or a Harley.
Q: Are you a motorcyclist? There are photos on your page of you in a Johnson Motors (famous, and now defunct, West Coast Brit-bike dealer) Triumph T-shirt, and a couple of you dirt biking.Ī: My dad raced motocross, and I’ve been around bikes my whole life, but I just learned how to ride dirt bikes two years ago.
But it would have to whitewalls, and no hood, and have a rat rod look for sure. Q: Would you want a Chip Foose customized ’37 Ford truck?Ī: Totally, a Chip Foose ’37 would be one I’d want to have. It was rusty in places, the side windows didn’t go up and down, but it had so much character. My ex-boyfriend had a ’37 Ford truck it was a piece of crap.
Q: Do you have a favourite car, and if you could have any car you wanted what would it be?Īny car I wanted? That would be a ’37 Ford pick up. Photo courtesy Jerry Clement, who shot this photo of Pixie Acia at a recent tattoo convention in Calgary. It’s fast, and it’s cute, and I won’t spray paint this one. Then I had a ’94 izusu 4 wheel drive, and I spray painted the whole thing again.Ī: It’s an all black 2004 Mini Cooper. I gave the car back to my dad, and he put it a sheet over it in the yard he was so embarrassed. I also had a David Bowie Ziggy Stardust mannequin head on the car, and when I drove it the hair would blow back in the wind. I covered it in insulation foam and stuck toys all over it and then some tattoo artist friends of mine airbrushed the whole thing. It was the first car I had, and I drove it for two years. It would have been a lot cooler if it were a ’70 Nova. My very first car that I drove, I’m embarrassed - it was an ’86 Chevy Nova. I just loved it, the way it smelled, the bench seat - and when you started it the whole car just shook. She’s at the Roundup Centre, Stampede Park on Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.Ī: The first car I fell in love with was my brother’s car, it was a 1973 Pontiac Grand Am. But she’s also got a soft spot for vehicles, as we learned during this interview.Īcia is putting in an appearance at the 42 nd annual Auto Value Parts Stores World of Wheels. “What happens may be real, but editing can change what you see.”Īcia is a make-up artist first and foremost, working in film, fashion, and music videos.
Ink, and the entire reality TV phenomenon itself. “People believe everything they see on TV - and they shouldn’t,” Acia says of L.A. In the show Acia works alongside noted tattoo artists Kat Von D, Corey Miller, Hannah Atchison and Kim Saigh.
Pixie Acia is the 26-year old shop manager of High Voltage Tattoo in West Hollywood, California - the shop now known in the reality TV series L.A. Pixie Acia photo courtesy World of Wheels First published in the Calgary Herald’s Driving Section Feb.