[thefirstlady]

I'm heavily tattooed, have 2 facial piercings, and stretched ears. Luckily I'm a tattoo artist, but I get treated very poorly by most people. Some people will comment on how beautiful my ink is, others will seriously pull their kids away from me walking around the mall or give me dirty looks. Even when I have a smile on my face walking around and I'm never rude to people.

Best part is, is that when people get to know me, they always comment on how nice and intelligent I am and how surprised they are because of how tattooed I am. Don't judge people by what they look like. All of the people I know that are heavily tattooed are some of the nicest, loyal people you will ever meet.

As for the comments above about how people with tattoos give businesses a bad image? Are you for real? I'm seriously offended by these comments whenever I hear them. I've never had problems with businesses or getting a job and I have full sleeves and tattoos on my knuckles. Same goes for all of my heavily tattooed friends. Sure some people are ignorant and automatically put a label/the stigma on you, but not as often as you would think. A lot of businesses now are a lot more liberal with tattoos and piercings because they are becoming so common.