Melissa Brauer

What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent tattoo is my collarbone, ‘we got this’, it holds so much power for me, as when I was going trough the hardest part of my life, my sister picked me up, and helped me fight, from my life, kids, and future. We got this become a pushing force to keep going, no matter the pain or the financial hardships, so together we got it tattoo in memory and motivation.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

It would speak of my life, each one holds a part of me that broke and come back together. From child loss ,to surviving a year that should have taken me, to my love and loss but not forgotten. Each one I have but time thought and even my own art into.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would invest it back into my community, family, and the things I hold dear. Like nursing homes where most are forgotten or neglected. To a positive few for my children to lean and grow from, life has given them a lot of ups and downs, but they have always shown strength. Helping in anyway that I can, where I know it can count; from soup kitchens to providing meal sacks for children, as these are things that helped when I needed it.