Client Red Flags, Viral Fights & Booking Power Moves with Karen RiveraI (Ep. 24)

2025-04-15

**Welcome back to another session of *Tattoo Budcast*!** This week, our Honorary Bud **Goonie** is riding shotgun (seriously—has *anyone* seen Jimmy Jam?), helping Sanae wrangle our guest: the *Billy Zane of Hair* herself, alt-hairdresser **Karen Rivera**. (Btw, who was the real villain of Titanic?) Karen’s booked *and* unbothered—she’s so booked, she doesn’t even take new clients anymore. She’s spilling the tea on how she built a ride-or-die roster and created a career on her own terms. Tattoo artists, take n...

**Welcome back to another session of *Tattoo Budcast*!**

This week, our Honorary Bud **Goonie** is riding shotgun (seriously—has *anyone* seen Jimmy Jam?), helping Sanae wrangle our guest: the *Billy Zane of Hair* herself, alt-hairdresser **Karen Rivera**. (Btw, who was the real villain of Titanic?)

Karen’s booked *and* unbothered—she’s so booked, she doesn’t even take new clients anymore. She’s spilling the tea on how she built a ride-or-die roster and created a career on her own terms. Tattoo artists, take notes—some of these moves might just work for you too.

We’re also reacting to a viral video of a stylist dragging her client for not paying... and, uh, the Buds might be siding with violence on this one.

Plus: mistakes we’ve made in our respective crafts that keep us up at night, and client red flags you should *run* from.

It’s unhinged, it’s funny, it’s weirdly inspiring. You know the vibe. Buckle up.

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GUEST: Karen Rivera

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