My Dear Friends of Inked The way that i see things and i think it’s kind of very liberating is that this all ends and we all are the same and we’re all going the same way so i think it helps to kind of um let go of things that you sometimes people hold on to or even with like the nine to five all this type of stuff that people.
Really associate their worth with it’s not really that real and i feel like if people let that go they could actually experience life as just how it is you know i’m victoria rose and i’m bad at interviews so let’s just get that out of the way i am from a farm in pennsylvania around.
Amish people i grew up very conservative and now i do social media as my job and i kind of travel the world and do adventures i grew up in like a very christian household i was i homeschooled myself pretty much you know go to church twice a week uh never we were all good kids like i.
Have five other siblings so it’s a big family none of my siblings have tattoos but they’re all kind of like little fairies like they just they don’t really care about what other people think and i don’t know where we got that growing up because we didn’t grow up very strange.
To be honest but we’re all kind of like that and yeah i super respect them they’re very interesting people what was your first sentence it was this one right here it’s actually the fruits of the spirit um love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness.
Self-control and it’s still what i want to be today i think it’s a good reminder you just like look at it my mom didn’t like it but then she started accepting it once you know you can’t go back it’s already done and i used to have a lot of piercings and stuff too so i’m glad i don’t have those anymore.
But those are really obnoxious um but yeah i don’t know i’ve always kind of associated with people that are a bit different anyways my family doesn’t care i mean they’re all weird too so i moved out right when i could and then i joined like this duo like doing music.
Across the country and my parents didn’t like it but i never have lived for you know what they wanted and i know they’re gonna love me probably anyways so i just kind of just do whatever whenever i was in this band this duo it was a christian based.
Thing so i didn’t really fit into the christian community very much in terms of like looks wise so it was probably noticed a lot then um but i’ve always kind of been on social media and i’ve always looked weird anyways aside from the tattoos i’ve.
I mean my style back then was really bad but it was different so it was i wore very bright neon 80s clothes and i always have had my hair usually like pink or some bright color i don’t know just obnoxious really i like to do a lot of inner work so i’m thinking i probably just want attention.
Everyone does i’m just being honest about it i feel like there’s a point where people go from being someone who has tattoos to someone who is tattooed do you remember when you yeah probably hmm when i get tattoos i get really big ones at a time so.
Like i don’t like to get small ones so it kind of happened like with probably one of these ones or whenever i started getting purple filled in on this arm just filling in more space you know what i mean i mean by the time i got the neck tattoo i i still had quite a few on my arms i’m very creative person i’ve always been creative i just.
Want to start decorating that’s how i see it i like i’m not even that into tattoos it’s just like just okay then i’ll think about it ever again i get it and then it’s just so yeah i just wanted to decorate i’m not like i try to be a bit sentimental with like i do have some that have like a.
Little bit of meaning but i try not to put too much attachment to things i wanted a full sleeve so this arm was first and i just i got you know as like i got as many as i could some of them are really bad so i like to group them all together because if you look at them individually you can notice.
That some of them are from scratchers and it’s like whatever but like um yeah i just kind of built it up and i tried to keep it kind of to my vision kind of aesthetic to my body in a way somehow um i’d still like to fill that in but i don’t know it kind of just turned out.
To be this none of it was i’m like i’ll think the night before of what i want again that’s crazy we’re going to die in the end it’s fine i thought isn’t that life though like it just kind of for me anyways it just kind of all has worked it doesn’t make any sense and i don’t.
Have a plan but it kind of just works out somehow i don’t know yeah but none of it is none of it’s planned i got to a point where i just like it i don’t know but that’s what i said and um i for myself like i’m diagnosed i have high fun.
Well i guess it’s not high asd it’s autism and um working a job for me is next to impossible i knew i wouldn’t be able to do it so i’m like i’m just going to do this and i’ll never be able to get a job definitely so then i got my whole neck tattooed it was kind of for me and i.
Think probably other tattoo people when they tattoo their neck anyways it is a statement to i’m going to live a kind of different way and that’s what i’ve always felt and wanted that’s what my family does that’s just who i am so it’s like it doesn’t it’s not going to make a difference to me.
It’s just going to fit in with how i want to live my life so yeah it is kind of a statement for me what i’m obsessed with lately has been cyberpunk because it’s kind of a dystopian world where the social constructs aren’t how they are anymore and i like that idea so um.
Super into cyborgs and robots and aliens and all that stuff that i think a lot of people would relate to because a lot of people don’t feel like they do fit into the world and i’ve obviously haven’t felt like that either so that that’s kind of what inspires me not a particular person or anything but.
Kind of just the whole general feeling of adventure and not fitting in and kind of making your own way but yeah futuristics up in sci-fi see this i have to address this because i hadn’t watched that movie even before like i cut my hair i didn’t even know who that i didn’t know that movie.
At all until a couple years ago but everyone thinks that i’m trying to beat that but i guess i guess the fifth element is in the cyberpunk realm but i never tried to i don’t even like the movie that much like it was never my inspiration but i did cut my bangs um.
After i’d seen it but it wasn’t because of that but this it is what it is now i had pink hair and i couldn’t transition from any other color so i had to go to orange i had to always explain this that’s the number one comment that i get but yeah yeah i mean.
It makes sense i get it i see it yeah i just wanted to line down my spine so meaning but i thought it would look cool because i really like the cyberpunk aesthetic and i feel like it’s kind of like futuristic looking in a way like i kind of want to look like like kind of like a cyborg like it’s a.
Piste all i can come up with i guess because i feel like i relate with them the way that i’ve seen the world is very logical and detailed and i feel like i’ve had to learn like a robot having autism you don’t learn normal social things you have to learn it manually.
So it does feel like you’re taking an information like a robot and i i’ve always related very well robots and aliens you know um but i think it’s more of like a personal thing like that than anything that’s the only way i think i can describe it i don’t see how i look to other people i have no idea what it.
Looks like to other people apparently like the fifth element but um tattoo wise i guess if they weren’t there i’d feel really naked like i know i would and they do make me feel like i can express what i’m feeling on the inside on the out which is i like creativity you know it’s.
My main thing so yeah i think it helps express me more because a lot of times i go inside myself and i i can’t i can’t express myself so that’s good do you ever regret i mean some of some of the tattoos i’ve gotten the tattooers didn’t do a very good job so i’m just like oh.
You should have done better but in the end it doesn’t matter to me because once they start clustering together you can’t tell the difference aside from any type of well no i take that back there’s some that i’ve regretted but i’ve covered them up is that the bar yeah yeah.
You can tell yeah you could start all over again would you still get the tattoos i’d have to go through all that pain again because i’ve already done it once i wouldn’t want to have like do it all over again that’s my only concern i don’t like to do things twice.
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Victoria Rose has always followed the beat of her own drum. We spoke with Rose about her tattoo journey: from her childhood growing up in a conservative family to the time she spent touring in a Christian music group to her fascination with cyberpunk.
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