Oli Washington

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

It’s such a strange unusual feeling in the world right now. Things were feeling really heavy so I decided to do a leg sleeve of my favorite people places and things that way when I’m looking down, I can be reminded of the things that help me get through tough times and I can look up

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

My ankle would definitely tell a story, not the typical triggers or traumas, and then go get a tattoo. I’ve gotten tattoos for a number of reasons, sadness, happiness, to commemorate certain things in my life that I always want to remember. My ankle would say keep going, get more, Age is not a number, don’t care what they think, do it for you, do it to inspire others.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would take my mom and dad to get there first tattoo, which is really funny because they gave me such grief when I was 16 and got my first one now that they are in their 70s they want one. I would love to take them to get a traditional tattoo in Tahiti or Taiwan. Something that they would remember.