I got ticked recently when somebody said, 'I don't need a tattoo to be a badass.' But in a way, it does make you a little bit more of a badass! Let's just be real. It will have to be something that is really, really special to me. But, they are forever, so they really have to speak to me. In fact, I have to fight the urge to go and have another one. , my youngest son was just waiting for me to scream. I was like, 'I will never let them know how bad this hurts.' I gave birth, I can do this. The people without tattoos are the ones that tend to be judgmental, I think! And people that have tattoos, we don't care if you don't have a tattoo. So people are usually not surprised when we do something like this. People that get tats, we march to our own drum beat. I think they are pretty.ĭoes anyone give you a hard time about being older and having tattoos? And I love the colors - the pinks, the blues and the turquoise. I enjoy it because when I look at it I see my children and my grandchildren. The three butterflies signify my grandchildren. I needed both of those things in my life, and I thought, 'Well, if I can't get it I'm going to put it on my back.' I was looking through the book and saw the characters for wisdom and tranquility. When I got my first one, I was coming from a period of a lot of trauma. So then, about two years later, I had just one butterfly done, but that was not enough. My now son-in-law is a tattoo artist he has his own shop.

I was going to do it at 50, but it just never happened. I have three butterflies and two sets of symbols. This is what happens when tattoo artist gets bored at a tattoo convention! I've got a Pacific Northwest otter on the forearm and a design that was done for me. My left arm is all autumn-colored leaves and birds. I was completely hooked by the whole process. showed me how big it had to be, and the next thing I know I was getting this $500 tattoo on my shoulder blade, which is quite large. I thought he was the cutest thing I'd ever seen. There was a little figure in the corner of it that caught my attention it's a fantastic figure in Japanese folklore called a tengu. One of them was a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi, from the late 19th century. He got me a book on Japanese ghost stories. I had thought about it for quite a while, and my husband said, 'OK, I'll get you your first tattoo.'

I had to be 19 when I got my first tattoo.

Briony lives in California, and has collected tattoos since she was 19, eventually working as an artist herself, apprenticing out of the same tattoo shop where she first got inked.

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