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After an obsession with body art landed him at a legendary L.A. tattoo shop, Dr. Woo inked himself into his status as the world’s most in-demand tattoo artist with a three-year-long waitlist. Think of it as the American Dream in delicate, elegant strokes of black and gray, punctuating a forearm, stamping a shoulder, encircling a collarbone. Brian Woo, the son of Taiwanese immigrants who spoke zero English when they landed in the U.S., grew up surrounded by the grittier bits of L.A. He latched on to his passion early, paid his dues and gained worldwide fame for his artistry before he even hit his mid-30s. But that’s the short version of this #singleneedle superhero’s rise to the top. The story started with 12-year-old Brian exchanging “hand-poked” India ink smiley faces with a childhood friend.
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