… This is going to be the busy time of the year,” said Dany Shepherd, a tattoo artist at Top Rocker Tattoo in Peoria.
The shop opened in 2009 at the Arrowhead Fountain Center retail complex. Shepherd said some days the shop is dead, but other days business is better.
There has been a proliferation of tattoo parlors in the Phoenix market in recent years as “skin art” becomes more accepted — thanks largely to tats sported by professional athletes, musicians, rappers and other creative types.
Some shops are in low-end strip centers next to massage parlors and check-cashing stores, but others have located in more middle- and upper-middle-class areas. Top Rocker, for example, is at 83rd Avenue and Bell Road, near the Harkins Theatre and the Cheesecake Factory. Club Tattoo has locations near Arizona State University in Tempe, and Wisemagic Tattoo is at Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard.

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