Sarah Sabbath got her first tattoo at just 14 years old, and she has been a self-described “tattoo addict” ever since. Now 26, she estimates that around 85 percent of her body has ink on it—including tattoos and on her face and eyeballs. “My friends and family think I’ve gone too far,” she says in a new episode of Truly’s Transformed series on YouTube. However, she believes that her tattoos help her to express and “enhance” her true self.
As an experiment, Sarah agrees to cover up all of her tattoos, so that she can see what she’d look like without them—and then she plans to surprise her boyfriend Doubt and best friend Heather. Sarah views her tattoos as a work of art, but admits to feeling excited at the idea of temporarily becoming a “blank canvas” again through this process.
“It’s been 13 years since I’ve seen myself without tattoos,” she says, “so I can’t even imagine what that feels like… I want to see how weird it looks.”
Makeup artists Marie and Liza begin with color correction; in other words, applying a thick layer of makeup in order to obscure the large areas of skin that are covered with black ink. This is followed by a layering stage, where they then match the makeup to Sarah’s skin tone, followed by finishing touches to make the final result look as natural as possible. “It feels uncomfortable,” says Sarah. “Even when I’m naked, I don’t feel naked… now I feel naked.”
The change is, as you might expect, drastic—and paired with the black wig that’s been chosen to complete her new look, Sarah jokes that she looks “like a witch.” Transformation complete, Sarah invites Heather and Doubt over. As her bestie, it’s been years since Heather has seen Sarah without any of her ink. And Doubt has never seen her without her tattoos.
“You look so cute!” says Heather. “I’m shocked… It looks really crazy, really awesome though.”
“She does not look like Sarah,” says Doubt. “Absolutely not. I can’t even lie. I think she looks beautiful, I just don’t think it looks like Sarah. I love her tattoos.”
While she’s enjoyed the overall experience, Sarah says that she would never go out in public like this, because she loves the way her tattoos make her feel. “It made me realize that I love myself the way I am,” she says, “and I’m proud to be who I am.”
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