Career: apprenticeship begun in 1994 at *Visionquest in Marengo Illinois. Started full time professionally in 2000. Opened Area 51 Tattoos in November of 2002 with Rick Zimmerman. Assumed sole ownership in 2006. A51 Tattoos Inc.-has been going strong ever since.

Personal: Husband and Father to two sons. Free time usually involves spending time with family, drawing stuff, playing video games and coffee.

Please stop in to see Khalid about what he can do for your next tattoo. He likes to work in every discipline, whether it’s Black and Grey, Realism, Portraits, color bomb, new school…you get the point…he will execute it with a perfectionism seldom seen in this industry.