Jillian Hitchman

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

Self love, for both of them! My most recent tattoo I did on myself was finishing these abstract spirit flow pieces I started on my legs back when I lived in Aotearoa (New Zealand). I returned to my homeland, the states, after many years living overseas, and I only recently settled down enough to finish them. It was a huge sense of completion, very full circle moment y'all. My most recent tattoo done by another artist was my nipples. Yeeeow! I love them more than I can say.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

Dearly beloved, this individual is colorful, vibrant, dark, mysterious, deep and high as f***. The seeming contradictions skin-wise are but disparate parts of a cohesive whole. Each symbol sigil and shape represents a facet. A plant with boobies, a memorial piece for her love who died, activation symbols to grant magical powers. I speak not just in imagery, I change the course of this human's life path. [Truly, an airport customs official let me bypass security because of my forehead tattoo.]

What would you do with the $25,000?

What wouldn't I do, Inked Mag!? Treat my dog Floopy like the king he is! Treat myself like royalty, too. I would fly back to Aotearoa and see my mates I haven't seen in years. Get a roof rack and a tent, one of those massive ones you can stand up inside. Adventures on! Go to this local ramen shop like 22 times. Support local business, yo! Donate 10% to local animal shelters. I'm not religious, but I'll tithe for the animals! Baby it will just be an upgrade across the board. Well deserved, truly.