Immortal Essence was founded by Nessa Leggette in June of 2009. She started her artistic journey as a pet portrait artist, and later progressed to doing people portraits, murals, custom built and hand painted bird houses, and other custom pieces. Even though she enjoyed this area of art, she still did not feel truly fulfilled in her career field. It was then that one of her friends mentioned that really should get into tattooing, so in January of 2010, Nessa started her journey to find a shop and learn everything that she could about the industry. She dove head first into her new career and has not looked back since.