#My story isnt over tattoo full#

It's impossible to see the whole thing otherwise. In order for people to see it, I kind of have to pivot while they look. It's Lady Death riding a pale horse side saddle. There was a moment for thigh sleeves around the time I got this. My dumbest tattoo is actually well done, but it has been exposed to a tanning bed so doesn't look as great as it probably would have. It's a gray wash ornamental tattoo based on antique lace. But I still regret it.Īnother tattoo I get a lot of compliments for is on my neck. It took six, four-to-five hour sessions and it's colorful and beautiful. I get stopped about one on my left forearm all the time. Some of my tattoos are 15 years old, but they've held up very well. I probably should have done something better with that money when I was in my twenties. They were pretty expensive, which could be a regret in itself.

The tattoo art is great and I still get a ton of compliments. I'm not getting all of my tattoos removed that's not even feasible. Now I have adult problems and have gone back to stuff I liked doing when I was a kid, like collecting antiques and spending time outside. I have a lot more femme, girly aesthetic than when I was younger. They reflected a moment of time in my twenties-a moment in time that I was not doing so well mentally-and they are here forever. I have all these tattoos that don't necessarily reflect who I am at 36. I think if you asked almost anybody that's over 30, if they have a better idea of who they are in their thirties than in their twenties, they will strongly relate to how I feel. Now that I'm in a place in my life where I can be soft, where I can be gentle, I wish that I didn't have these to make me hard or remind me of that time. I helped exonerate a Proud Boy of seditious conspiracy.I teach in Ron DeSantis' Florida-parents don't read the books they ban.I was expected to tip for an ice cream cone.I did a five-day water fast, the results were incredible.I wish today's me could have told me then: 'Hey, that's like a thing for guys, it's kind of worse.' I wanted to not be noticed by a bunch of dudes. I was not in an environment where I felt safe to be soft or vulnerable back then, so I wanted to look different. To me, though, my tattoos are a form of self-harm. There were many other ways I could have gone, but I picked tattoos. So being able to control what my body looked like was very important to me.

#My story isnt over tattoo full#

Women would think that I was stuck up or full of myself. Guys would expect me to be their all-American breeder housewife. But 20 years ago, because I look a certain way, people-mostly men-had preconceptions about what I'm like and who I was. In fact, my tattoos are for anti-aesthetic reasons. Sara Mills said she regrets her tattoos now she is older and in a different place in her life.