Carrie Ouellette

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

Life. Life inspired all of my tattoos. It seemed the pain of the tattoo transformed into the ink that tells my story the best. I had no clue how my ink would remind me of the worst times of my life that led me to the best times. Keeping me in check of where my morals and values stood. My most recent tattoo is unfinished just an outline of what could be. I believe it's because I wasn't ready to finish it or didn't feel the passion as before. I'll know when the time is right.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

She let me speak for her pain. For her, I made her stand apart from everyone else. She's an imperfect mess like her me. Lines not perfect, shading iffy but she makes me look sexy, intriguing and captivating like no other. She makes a giant imperfect spider web like me, poorly shaded, imbedded deep in her skin a masterpiece. People stare impressed by me and who wears my ugliness with confident, classy grace!

What would you do with the $25,000?

Buy a forever home for my family. So that we all have a place to go for peace and safety. A place of safety, free of judgement and negativity. We have been through so much together, I just want to give us a place of security and comfort.