Doug Jay

What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent tattoo is a reminder of not only the day I committed my life to my soulmate a woman that has changed not only my life but how I live my life, and who I am in this life I'm living with her. You see I'm an addict in recovery now for almost 10yrs and when I met her in 2018 I was only 2yrs clean but still living like an addict in active addiction and making stupid choices. She forced me to look inwards at myself because she saw something in me that nobody else did, she saw my soul.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

Honestly it would just show my progression in life and to the woman I love. My very 1st tattoo (professional) my dragon with the Chinese word (symbol) for Fear was at a point in my life where I was very confused and doing things out of the fear of missing out or being scared so I got it to symbolize this, then my skull was a dark time of drugs, sex, and crime, then you have a gap till my last 2 when I met and then committed to my soulmate.

What would you do with the $25,000?

The 1st thing I would do would be pay for my partner to get the very detailed tattoo she wants in remembrance of her Dad who passed 12/24/24 after that I would use it to help us get through this time of development. I'm a full-time culinary arts student (at 41) and have to work less making it harder to survive but this is my dream and I'll eventually have my own restaurant in the Bay Area of San Francisco the money would be a huge help at my success.