Melissa Hindman

What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My last tattoo is a blue butterfly, dedicated to my sister who left this world too soon at the age of 29. Blue was her favorite color. The butterfly symbolizes her getting her wings too early and the transformation of death. It’s a daily reminder of her. This tattoo also represents my ongoing journey for justice, which remains unfinished because she was killed, and it was covered up as a suicide. Her memory lives on through this piece on my left ankle where people can see and ask about i

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

My ink tells you about a soul that is beautifully sad. The flowers would tell you how I bloomed among the thorns and storms. The collar bones tell you to breathe me in and breathe me out. My right foot would tell how I am quantum entangled with my soulmate. The left leg would poor out tears of sorrow and pain from the loss of beautiful souls from this world. My back tells you that I rise even through my darkest days. The ink would say the needle numbs me, and becomes my therapy.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would use the $25000 to help right a wrong done to the man I love. I would pay most of it towards the attorney and DNA testing that is needed to prove my husband was wrongfully convicted. If the money was used in this way, it would restore our lives and dreams. And then, with him home, I wouldn’t work any more, because he would spoil me. So I guess you could say it would be invested in justice, happiness, and our future.