Brittney Smith

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent tattoo is an upside down rose on my lower sternum. While it might now be the most unique or biggest piece I love it so much. Everytime I received roses I would collect them and keep them for years b/c I truly love the look of them even more after they were dead than alive. Probably something I need to talk to a therapist about lol but to me a rose is such a generic flower and I wanted to be anything but generic. Honestly the rose has a few meanings for me more than I can fit here.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

I think everyone’s ink is definitely a form of self expression. I am from a very small town in Texas and I never felt as though I liked the same things as a lot of people there. Being a woman with a full almost black sleeve in a small country town definitely made me stand out physically but let me express myself without ever even having to open my mouth. If my ink could speak I think it would say that I love art, beauty, the female body, and love.

What would you do with the $25,000?

While money is the only reason I don’t have more tattoos and I’m sure I’m supposed to say I would use it for that and would love to, however, I have recently become a single mother and there are definitely more important things I would use it for. $25K could really change me and my son’s life. It could put my mind to rest knowing I don’t have to worry about my rent, my car note, daycare fees, or bills for a little while. I also have dreams to start my own business &