By Connie Wang, Photographed by Clarke Tolton, Photographed by Greg Manis

"The strawberry with the nipple isn't an amazing tattoo, but the story behind it is. It was done by my friend Thomas Butera who was apprenticing at a shop in Baton Rouge. It was Thanksgiving, and neither of us were hanging out with our families, and we were at the shop, drinking. No one came in all day cause it was a family holiday, so we were pretty drunk when this woman walked in saying she wanted something sexy, so Thomas and the woman shot a couple ideas back and forth and then, hammered drunk, I gave her the idea of getting a strawberry with a nipple tattooed on her, have the nipple dripping chocolate sauce, and the words 'naughty girl' in script around it. It was so good, I had to have it for myself."
Photographed by Greg Manis



















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