TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — At the tattoo shop Sublime on the west side of town, you could eat a Sonoran hotdog while getting one tattooed on you.
For the shop’s ten year anniversary event, they had Tucson-inspired flash tattoo specials. They also invited members of the community and small businesses to their backyard for a celebration.
When the guests began to trickle out, Sublime’s owner Manda Fraizer sat down at her tattoo station, just behind the front desk.
“Sometimes,” she said, “I just sit here and I look around from my background and where I came from, it’s not something I ever envisioned that I could do.”
Fraizer said she struggled for a while with substance abuse and mental health.
“I spent a lot of time, like 20 years, just… so bad,” she said, struggling to find a shortened way to describe that period of her life.
For the last …