2026 Muse Call

The first of our tattooed muses has completed her Q+A, I am so excited to share her words with you!

Your ink has a story. What's one piece that still hits different when you look at it, and what does it mean to you now?

My ink is a dragon, woman, and wolf in the outdoors. My dragon represents my imagination and strength, love of knowledge since knowledge is power. The woman is my sexier self, the side I keep hidden from most people, and the wolf my grounding in reality and family connection. The outdoors represents not being caged in, free from constraints. I’m still in awe every time I see my tattoo because it represents all my different parts. Seeing it helps me remember that I don’t have to always be all things all the time. I can take it piece by piece when things get tough.

A lot of women tend to take care of everyone else before themselves. Is that something you've ever struggled with? What shifted for you?

I have struggled with taking care of everyone else before myself. As a wife and mother, a daughter, a friend I saw myself in those roles first. Taking care of my family was the most important thing to me and I hadn’t realized I was losing myself in these “roles”. It wasn’t until I was told I was in “Mom mode” while out in public with friends that I realized I didn’t necessarily remember who I was. I no longer fit who I was before I’d gotten married as to many things had changed. I slowly started to relearn who I had transformed into outside of my family role. My tattoo was the first thing I’d done to represent the new me and the direction I wanted to go in, remembering who I am now and who I want to become in the future.

What would you want your daughter, niece, or a younger woman in your life to know about her body and how she deserves to feel in it?

I think it’s important not just for my nieces, but my nephews as well to know they should be comfortable with who they are no matter what other people say about them. Others don’t know you, don’t know what you’ve been through, what you carry inside. Be happy with who you are and remember you don’t need someone else to be complete. A companion should accentuate and complement what is already there inside you, not fix or complete something because you are not broken. You are enough as you are, you are beautiful and handsome, smart and caring. And I think everyone should listen to the pep talk from Cool Runnings “I see pride, I see power, I see a bad ass mudder who don’t take no crap off of nobody”

How long did it take you to stop apologizing for who you are?

It took me a long time to not apologize for who I am. I think the first big step I’d made in that was after getting married both our mothers were trying to tell us how to be married and raise our child. That we had to be a certain religion, that we had to do it this way. I had to finally step up and say No. This is who we are as a family. I took another step in this when I looked at my friend circle and realized I wasn’t as childish as they were. I finally had to step back and say that I can’t do this anymore I’ve grown up and cut the dead weight from my life. I now say This is who I am as a person, if you can’t accept that then we don’t need you. I am now proud of the geek that I am, I love reading. I love Dungeons and Dragons. I’m weird and quirky and my humor will grow on you. If you’re good with that then we can be friends. If you’re not that’s your loss because I’m an amazing person.

Would you like to be the next tattooed muse? One stick and poke or hours in the chair, I want to capture your story and share it with area women!

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