“I got a half-sleeve the day I turned 18,” Castro says. “I was like, ‘I’m just going to go for it.’ Everyone thought I was going to get something small, like a little shoulder tattoo or whatever. But I obviously got that bug and I couldn’t stop going to the tattoo shop to add more and more. By the time I was 19, I had both arms done, a chest piece, and I haven’t stopped since.”
Castro didn’t just fall head over heels for tattooing. When lockdown hit Las Vegas last year, Castro couldn’t go into work as a bartender and needed a way to pass the time. Then one day, inspiration struck. “I was actually walking my dogs and I saw one of my neighbors skating up and down the street,” Castro says. “That looked way more fun than just sitting home and binge-watching Netflix, so I ordered my first pair of skates. Initially, I thought that since I used to skate as a kid it would be easy as an adult... but I was totally wrong.”
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