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Vargas came to tattooing from an animation background, having studied animation but left as the field shifted from hand-drawn 2D work to 3D computer modeling, a preference for tactile 2D drawing that carried over into tattooing. She began tattooing at Frith Street Tattoo in London in 2007, the institutional center of the British neo-traditional scene, where her mature style emerged inside a demanding studio culture, and by the early 2010s she was internationally recognized, profiled by Vice's Tattoo Age series in 2012. She is one of the most cited European artists for neo-traditional lady heads, pin-up-derived female portraits rendered with bold lines, bright color, and ornamental framing, and she has described studying a print by the American artist Chris Conn as the point that taught her how a successful lady head is built. In 2014 she co-founded Modern Classic Tattoo in Fulham with her partner Stewart Robson, with whom she works as a close mutual-critique pair, Vargas the stronger detail and facial-expression artist and Robson refining composition and flow.
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