The Desert Sun: I got a hand-poked tattoo from a Yucca Valley artist. The experience made me want another.

“Compton is one of a growing group of tattoo artists using the hand-poke method, in which ink is individually stuck into the skin, dot by dot. A School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduate, she dabbled in micro-blading and fashion (she created a knitwear line, Rustic Threads) before beginning to tattoo regularly last year.”