Gabriel Raben

What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent tattoo is my full neck tattoo, it’s a cover up of a stupid tattoo I got on the side. It’s a gorgeous butterfly/moth with a skull in the center with dot work going around it. Still have a couple sessions left to go, what inspired to get this tattoo was my best friend passing away, he didn’t like the one that’s getting covered up. It’s a memorial piece plus the sickest part is his dad is the one doing it.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

They would all speak different stories, I got all of them when I was in a different point in life. Each ones has its own story and meaning, like my rose on my left forearm is one I got when my grandma past away or my real sick dagger through a hand and closed rose tattoo that one represents all of the bad chapters, basically killing the hand that I took ahold of that lead to all my wrong doing and addictions. I could go on about the others but that’s a whole different story on those.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would love to start my own business with some of it ( Lawn care and landscaping), put some in savings, and possibly get the ball rolling on my first home. It would be a blessing and this would put me years ahead of where I’m at now