Tat’s just how she rolls.
A British woman wound up banned from her local tattoo parlors and harassed at the local supermarket after compulsively covering herself in more than 800 of ink-based art. But that’s not going to distract the marked-up mother of seven from her bizarre quest for total transformation.
After being deemed persona non grata at the neighborhood body-modification boutiques, where staff have reportedly refused to create more clutter on her nearly-covered canvas, the design-drenched darling purchased a $150 tattoo gun from Amazon, allowing her emboss at will.
“I do my tattoos at home anytime I like,” bragged Melissa Sloan, 46, from Kidderminster, England, to NeedToKnow.
Despite suffering from multiple infections and permanent scars, the needle-happy honey, who’s been jabbed nearly nonstop since age 20, doesn’t plan on kicking her addiction anytime soon.
“I’ll keep having tattoos,” she said. “Three a week, never stopping.”
“Any time of day,“ continued Sloan, “I just get my kit out everywhere I go.”
But the well-monogrammed mommy — whose entire body, including her neck, face, hands and shaved head, is plastered in three layers of black drawings — tries not to “go” too many places, for fear she’ll be harassed for her outré appearance.
“I get judged a lot so sometimes I stay in or stay in the car while my boyfriend goes to [the supermarket],” Sloan confessed of her partner, Luke, who she’s previously permitted to stamp her skin.
“There’s too much drama,” added the branded babe. She’s often mocked and called “Crayola” in public. “You [can] only take so much, being me you always have to put up a fight.”
The tatted head-turner has even had to fight for her right to work — an ongoing battle she’s constantly losing.
“I can’t get a job,” she lamented in July. “I applied for a job cleaning toilets where I live, and they won’t have me because of my tattoos.”
Sloan’s own brood, too, finds her graphic glam bizarre. In fact, the nonconformist claims that all but one of her tots think she nuts.
“My other kids think I’m crazy but my son loves the way I look,” said the mom, who’s tapped a few of her kids to tat her back.
But an unyielding Sloan refuses to be deterred by her disapproving little ones or judgmental strangers on the street.
“I love life and don’t care what people think, who cares?,” she said. “You only have one life, live it like it’s your last.”