Grace Neutral: transcending the tattoo universe with inclusivity and safety (Femme Fatale Tattoo) #616

Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Scroobius Pip

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!

This week Pip is joined by GRACE NEUTRAL, founder of FEMME FATALE TATTOO!

Of course, as with all intros, it is impossible to sum up Grace by a role or a title. Grace is also a force of energy and natural spring of positivity in the wide world of the tattoo, as you will hear in this in person chat with Pip. Positivity and new ways of thinking aren't always a given though, sometimes these are things that need to happen through experience and ultimately wisdom, all of which Grace has in abundance. Among other subjects including the one that you would indeed expect, Grace and Pip catch up on the joy of dogs and animals, how Grace founded Femme Fatale, the unfortunate side of tattoo work and the humans who contribute to it, humble origins, how misogyny can generate among women in toxic male environments, being a boss and how to do that, surviving abusive relationships in enabling towns, and fostering safe inclusive spaces for those who would benefit. It's fun, it's deep, it's light, and it's heavy. It has it all.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is The Distraction Pieces podcast episode 616. And I've got an amazing episode today. Honestly, one of my favourite I've recorded. You're going to adore this. But first of all, I need to apologise. I've been getting so much love for our climate specials all through the month of April. I told everyone, every week, every
0:22.4	Wednesday in April, there's a climate special in the Climate Solutions for Realist series.
0:28.8	No one told me there was five Wednesdays in April. Come on, that's a rarity. So yeah,
0:36.6	for the last Wednesday in April, we're stopping the climate
0:39.9	series. It was amazing. Thank you for all the love. If you missed it, go and give it, listen.
0:44.3	It feels really important. I chatted to some truly amazing people about climate activism,
0:50.6	climate journalism and all sorts of stuff. So I think you'll really enjoy it. But what you'll
0:55.5	really, really enjoy is what you're here for right now. Today's guest is Grace Neutral. And it's amazing.
1:03.4	We'd never met before. And Grace was instantly so open and so honest and so giving with her time
1:10.8	and emotions. Yeah, you're going to love it. I've followed
1:14.5	Grace for a long time. If you're not aware of Grace, Grace is a tattoo artist and artist in her own right,
1:20.8	has run, a tattoo parlor. But it's also a bit of kind of, you know, a living legend.
1:28.1	Like you might hear a few times, I kind of, I go a bit quiet, because it's the first time
1:33.8	that we've been face to face.
1:35.7	And Grace has curated herself in a truly astounding way through the tattoos that she's chosen
1:43.4	to adorn herself with, to having scarification
1:47.5	in patterns. She was one of the first people to have her eyeballs tattooed, her tongue
1:55.9	split, her belly button removed, her ears pointed. We go into all of this. You're in for, if all this is new to
2:04.2	you, you're in for a hell of a conversation. It's amazing. But yeah, it was the honesty and openness.
2:12.0	And the, again, the fact that we'd only met for the first time, it felt like such a comfortable
2:17.0	conversation.
2:18.8	Grace welcomed me into her home.
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