Lex Grimes

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent would be my sternum/stomach, a gorgeous ram skull for being an Aries. Mine and my daughters birth flowers coming out of the broken horn on one side, and a native Eastern indigo snake wrapped around the other with honey dripping from it's fangs. In death, we find life. And in life, we meet death. It's a cycle we're all a small part of, and I think it's a beautiful reminder that we all end up as flowers again.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

You would hear a million voices all at once! Some sweet, some cruel, some sing, some scream, all mine. Protect what you hold dear, embrace your inner child, face your mental illnesses, tell people off, dance with your demons, and more than anything, remember that you're muchness is welcome in the right spaces.

What would you do with the $25,000?

If I'm being entirely honest, catch up on life. My mom was in a bad car accident a few years ago and can't work anymore as a cosmetologist. Which inspired my love of expression through my body and hair. And the rest would go towards my dream of opening a bakery café with my best friend. It would have fresh made baked goods inspired by my late Grammy, plants and books! And I'd like to implement a pay it forward option to help feed the community.