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We caught up with Tess Marie Howroyd
to learn a little more about the evolution
of her tattoos.
Tess got her first tattoo (a butterfly with tribal designs) at the
early age of 16. “I had wanted a tattoo for years and on my
16th birthday my mom finally agreed to let me get one.”
Now at age 23, Tess has many tattoos including a full sleeve
which was done by one of her favourite artists – Candice
Churchill at Black and Blue Tattoo in Nanaimo, BC. “Initially
I was just going to get a half sleeve...” says Tess. “I wanted to
do a life and death type of theme so I got a skull surrounded
by lotus flowers, and my birth stone (diamond), coming out
of the flowers.” Tess went on to say that she kept going back to
add something to the half sleeve and then finally decided just
to get the entire arm done!
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