Riley Persinger

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

I love Billy Joel, especially his song Vienna. I was lucky enough to travel to Vienna for a once in a lifetime trip and after that I had planned to get a tattoo to remember it. I chose the line “slow down you’re doing fine” because I am an anxious person and I wanted it to be someone that I looked at and remembered I am okay! I also wanted my family to be apart of the tattoo. I used to write on my wrist every day “you got this,” and this tattoo means the same to me

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

If it could speak the first thing it would say is “why did you get me done and the shitty college tattoo shop” haha. Then it would tell me that I need to focus on the present time, but still allow myself to dream. My parents and my brother wrote the tattoo, so everytime I start thinking to much, I look at the tattoo and imagine it yelling at me to be in the now. It would also ask why it’s matching with my friend when it’s my family’s writing (the artist messed up)

What would you do with the $25,000?

The first thing I would do is buy a car with it. I am a broke college student with low funds and going into my junior year I need a car. Then I would buy my school books for the semester. I’d help my parents fix up the house, and then with whatever left I’d get some tattoos that are actually good, and not from the shitty college tattoo shop. Depending on how much I had left I’d probably go on a trip, solo or otherwise.