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Woman With Extreme Face Tattoos Revealed What She Looked Like Before Getting Inked
The extreme makeover left her almost unrecognizable.
Like every tattoo maniac, Aimee Smith has a time when she looked completely different from how she is now. The 23-year-old alternative model from Oakham, East Mids now has collected over 40 tattoos on her body, not including her facial piercings.
Now a mom-of-two, she is recognized in her hometown as βthe girl with the tattoos.β
Recently, she’s decided to share an old picture of herself before she goes through her full transformation. Reminiscing back on those days, she shared, βThe picture of me with blonde hair is one Iβve never posted on social media and when I found it I was like, ‘Wow, did I really look like that?’
Aimee before her face tattoos has always had a lot of piercings on her face.
Aimee got her first tattoo at the age of 13 after she was inspired by the movie ‘Miami Ink’. She’s since been addicted to adding more and more to her body before she finally began building a following thanks to her unique appearance.
βI remember taking it to send to my boss and Iβve never looked at it since. It has really taken me back, my god,” she recalls why the selfie even existed.
βThat was a time in my life where I was very lost as a person. I wasnβt comfortable and I didnβt feel myself.”
βLooking at it was a big reminder of how lost I was and that just wasnβt me. If you look at my recent pictures I can really notice the difference, I can really see I wasnβt comfortable in old ones.β
The reactions towards her heavily-tattooed appearance were mixed. There was more negativity back in the days.
βI do get a lot of mixed responses but I do find that over time the responses have got better. Itβs more accepted now than what it was when I was 19 even though that was only four years ago. Most people here donβt even bat an eyelid at me.
She also shared how this particular tattoo from the 1991 movie ‘Drop Dead Fred’ has a deep meaning for her.
βThat was my whole childhood and I was absolutely fixated with that film. It’s something that is still a big part of me and a big part of my family. Some people look at it as just a film but that tattoo is so meaningful to me.β
βIt is happy memories and there are so many lines in the film that my family still say to this day just in general conversation.
βThere was one line in particular and itβs so important to me, he says βyou be yourself donβt be like herβ and thatβs always stuck with me.β
