Sirin Bektas

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

It had been a couple years since my last tattoo and a while since I had been inspired. For the first time in my life, the year I'm graduating from college of course, I actually went somewhere with friends for spring break and let myself be carefree, have the things I wanted. We went to New Orleans and it is such an amazing city full of so much life and color and music. I wanted something to remember my trip by, and ended up with a voodoo alligator from a shop I was walking by as I was leaving.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

My ink would say that I am a person full of a lot of love and kindness and color and variance, I am no one thing. I'm a little goofy, I'm a little serious, I'm a little sweet, I'm a little sexy. My ink says that anytime any day I can be whoever I want to be. I can be the hard tattooed girl behind the counter, or the sweet one who helps you at the grocery store where all you see is a hint of the one on my ankle. I am never forced to be one thing and all of it together is my individuality.

What would you do with the $25,000?

With $25,000 it would allow me to start my life off right. I am a college senior and nervous for what comes next. This money would go a super long way to help me get on my feet from the get go. I would find a place for my family and I to live, be able to take the time to find a job I truly love and fulfills me instead of the first that will take me, pay off some loans, take my friend who are more my family than anyone on a trip because they deserve it, and overall find my place in this world.