I work in films and music videos, fashion, etc., and I’m still doing that work. I went to two make up schools one in San Francisco and Cinema Make-up school in Los Angeles. If it was a Harley, it would have to have a rigid frame, a springer front end, mid controls, peanut tank, narrow rear tire - not a big fat lame one - no chrome, wrapped pipes I’d want it vintage and gritty.Ī: I was a make up artist, and a waitress and a body piercer. It would have to be very functional I’d actually want to ride it. I’ve always wanted to be on a street bike, and I’d love an old Triumph or a Harley.
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Q: Are you a motorcyclist? There are photos on your page of you in a Johnson Motors (famous, and now defunct, West Coast Brit-bike dealer) Triumph T-shirt, and a couple of you dirt biking.Ī: My dad raced motocross, and I’ve been around bikes my whole life, but I just learned how to ride dirt bikes two years ago. But it would have to whitewalls, and no hood, and have a rat rod look for sure. Q: Would you want a Chip Foose customized ’37 Ford truck?Ī: Totally, a Chip Foose ’37 would be one I’d want to have.
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It was rusty in places, the side windows didn’t go up and down, but it had so much character. My ex-boyfriend had a ’37 Ford truck it was a piece of crap. Q: Do you have a favourite car, and if you could have any car you wanted what would it be?Īny car I wanted? That would be a ’37 Ford pick up. Photo courtesy Jerry Clement, who shot this photo of Pixie Acia at a recent tattoo convention in Calgary. It’s fast, and it’s cute, and I won’t spray paint this one. Then I had a ’94 izusu 4 wheel drive, and I spray painted the whole thing again.Ī: It’s an all black 2004 Mini Cooper. I gave the car back to my dad, and he put it a sheet over it in the yard he was so embarrassed. I also had a David Bowie Ziggy Stardust mannequin head on the car, and when I drove it the hair would blow back in the wind. I covered it in insulation foam and stuck toys all over it and then some tattoo artist friends of mine airbrushed the whole thing. It was the first car I had, and I drove it for two years. It would have been a lot cooler if it were a ’70 Nova. My very first car that I drove, I’m embarrassed - it was an ’86 Chevy Nova. I just loved it, the way it smelled, the bench seat - and when you started it the whole car just shook. She’s at the Roundup Centre, Stampede Park on Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.Ī: The first car I fell in love with was my brother’s car, it was a 1973 Pontiac Grand Am. But she’s also got a soft spot for vehicles, as we learned during this interview.Īcia is putting in an appearance at the 42 nd annual Auto Value Parts Stores World of Wheels. “What happens may be real, but editing can change what you see.”Īcia is a make-up artist first and foremost, working in film, fashion, and music videos.
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Ink, and the entire reality TV phenomenon itself. “People believe everything they see on TV - and they shouldn’t,” Acia says of L.A. In the show Acia works alongside noted tattoo artists Kat Von D, Corey Miller, Hannah Atchison and Kim Saigh.
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Pixie Acia is the 26-year old shop manager of High Voltage Tattoo in West Hollywood, California - the shop now known in the reality TV series L.A. Pixie Acia photo courtesy World of Wheels Kat Von D admitted that losing her friend hurts her up until this time.First published in the Calgary Herald’s Driving Section Feb. Kat Von D even pointed out that Pixie was her number choice to be part of the show and anticipated for conflicts to happen but she never did expect that it would be so great that it caused Pixie to get fired and be out of the show. She said being a close friend, co-worker and sister never became a problem between the two of them but even before she decided to pick Pixie to be part of the show, that at some in point in time their friendship would be put to a test in terms of work issues. She explained that a serious complication in their relationship had occurred and things became more complicated when Kat Von D became Pixie’s boss. Kat Von D explained in her blog at MySpace about what transpired that caused Pixie to exit and leave the show permanently.
A close friend of Kat Von D, she was believed to be living with the store owner and after a spin off show was offered to feature High Voltage Tattoo, she was hired to be the shop manager.īut after the show ran for three seasons with Pixie Acia as the shop manager, shop owner and close friend, Kat Von D decided to fire her. Born to the name Amber Acia, Pixie was the shop manager of LA Ink for the first three seasons. This show is aired on The Learning Channel or TLC, where events on tattoo studios are documented particularly at High Voltage Tattoo and American Electric, which are owned by Kat Von D and Craig Jackman respectively. Pixie is one of the shop managers in the TV show entitled LA Ink.
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