Hi, I'm Chloé

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Hi, I'm Chloé and I'm glad you're here.

In 2018, I took it upon myself to quit my side hustle job, teach myself everything I know about tattooing, and begin a deeply transformational and integrative personal development journey in order to heal myself as a person, artist, and woman.



My journey as a creative started in 2013. After getting my BFA in printmaking, dark room photography, and ceramics, I began life as an entrepreneur running my business as a working artist.

Between 2013 - 2018, I took on any project that fit into my wheel house — from murals to wedding photography, illustration projects to gallery shows, I was dedicated to making my career as an artist stick. And I was doing all this while working side jobs to pay the bills. I waited tables, worked in a kitchen, and landed a job at an art consulting firm. 

In the process, I nurtured hopes and dreams, grew a clientele, learned a ton, and slowly cultivated a hustle mentality — “grind, grind grind, LFG, juggle everything, gotta make it work” was my vibe. Within the hustle, I was visited by limiting beliefs and fears...
  • “Will I ever make enough money as an artist?”
  • “Will I always need to hustle and have a second job?”
  • “Is my work good enough?”
  • “I need to sweat and grind for this to work.”

These thoughts began to culminate into a void I could feel in my heart at the same time that I was feeling deeply unhappy at my art consulting job. The 9-5 office job just wasn’t for me and it crushed my soul on a daily basis. 



And this is when it all began to change —

In the light of my misalignment, fear, and pain, the universe began to nudge me in a new direction. I got hired to do the illustrations for a book on witchcraft, shared those designs, and from there, I began to get commissions for tattoo designs that my ___ would take to a tattooer willing to tattoo my art.

I was deeply touched that people were wanting to get my art tattooed on them and slowly started to consider the possibility of myself as a tattooer. The desire to connect with my clients and hold a mindful space within the industry pushed me to begin seeking an apprenticeship.

I was met with a lot of closed doors and my own imposter syndrome:
  • “Will I ever make enough money as an artist or will I always need to have a second job?"
  • "Am I even cool enough, good enough, talented enough to pursue this career?" 
  • "I need to sweat, grind, and hustle for this to work.”
  • “Can I actually do this?”

The magical part of this timing is that right as I began to build my career as a tattoo artist, despite being met with resistance and rejection, I attended my first women’s retreat and began the deeply profound, completely life changing personal development journey that I still find myself on to this day. 

Despite the limiting beliefs and the closed doors, an inner-voice I couldn't ignore called me forward. I listened and I taught myself how to tattoo, opened my own shop, and committed to the life-long journey of taking personal responsibility for my lide experience.

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Now here I am, 5 years later, combining my greatest joys on earth: tattooing, teaching, and empowering others to live in their greatest alignment.

Hello dreamer, my name is Chloé — owner of a celebrated tattoo shop, MADÉ Tattoo & Mercantile, founder of the Mindful Tattoo Collective, and host of the Ripple Effect Retreats — and I am here to show you that anything is possible if you choose it. 


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