halsey

anchor tattoo

"the first tattoo I ever got was on my foot. It's an anchor, and it has my mom's initials in it, and she has the same one. We got them together. I was really young to have a tattoo, but my mom is covered in them. She's got a full sleeve. She has her tongue pierced too. She's super, super cool, really beautiful, and always had tattoos as I was growing up. So I think looking up to her, I always saw it as an artistic thing.

My mom's really artistic and just really, really badass. So I begged her, and begged her and begged her to let me get a tattoo, so she took me to get one almost as a fear tactic. She was like "Yeah let's go get anchors on our feet." And what I didn't know is that the foot is one of the the most painful spots you can get a tattoo. So she took me to get a tattoo on my foot hoping that it would deter me from getting more because of how bad it hurt, and it totally backfired on her. It just absolutely backfired. I was like, "this is great! I want to get more!"

I think she just thought it was a cute symbolic thing. You know how mom's are. My mom was like "we anchor eachother." I was like "that's beautiful, mom. Just let me get a tattoo. I don't care what it is, I just want to be cool."