“You can’t judge a book by its cover,” the L.A. Ink star told UsMagazine.com at the Gay & Lesbian Center’s An Evening With Women: Celebrating Art, Music and Equality party in Beverly Hills Saturday.
“I think there has always been a negative stigma surrounding tattoos, especially on women,” continued Von D, 28. “But to me, it is all about how you carry yourself, and some people carry it differently, I guess. For me, I just want to be a positive example of tattooing.”
Wait a minute. I thought the very concept of tattooing is to set your book’s cover apart from everyone else’s. (A sort of badder-than-thou signal, particularly in effect when you, say, get a galaxy of stars etched on your face.) At least it used to be for Kat:
“It’s a form of self expression. I’d been listening to music on my own without my parents input since I was twelve, and getting into the punk rock scene. It just really gave me the attitude where I don’t get tattooed for anybody else but me. I didn’t do this as an attention seeking act of rebelling. It was more, I actually just like this and I want to get tattooed, and I want it so much that I don’t care if other people treat me differently.”
“It’s a form of self expression. I’d been listening to music on my own without my parents input since I was twelve, and getting into the punk rock scene. It just really gave me the attitude where I don’t get tattooed for anybody else but me. I didn’t do this as an attention seeking act of rebelling. It was more, I actually just like this and I want to get tattooed, and I want it so much that I don’t care if other people treat me differently.”
