After the death of her father in 2018, a British woman decided to pay tribute to him with a arm tattoo made with black ink mixed with his asheswhich soon became an experience marked not only by the art on the skin, but also by the reaction of his body.
“My father was covered in sentimental tattoos with things like his children’s names,” British Tammie Lunt told the American magazine Newsweek about the custom that inspired her to honor him with the phrase “Always with me”.
«He battled so many illnesses and challenges in his final years before he passed away. Dad was my hero. He worked hard for all of us to make sure we had what we needed. I wanted to do it as a symbol of my love for him.a show of honor for everything he sacrificed,” he said.
From tattoo with ashes to an eternal heart
The tattoo was not easy to do. “At first, the tattoo artist was a little hesitant. But after researching, he soon knew what to do. I left the ashes at the tattoo studio and went the next day,” Lunt explained to Newsweek.
For the first few years, the skin healed without problems. However, As time went by, he noticed a small patch of hard skin on his hand that became irritated and it made him itch. What was happening to him soon took on a deeper meaning. The British woman photographed the affected area and, when she zoomed in on the image, she noticed that It looked like a small heart.
The commemorative tattoo that manifested on his body in the shape of a heart. Photo: @tambinayano82.After consulting a doctor, they assured him that it was not dangerous, although they could not identify the cause. It was then that he remembered the tattoo artist’s warning: “I had completely forgotten what she had told me about the ashes could be expelled from my body.”
«At that moment I thought, ‘He’s telling me to let him go. I need to stop crying so much, he’s in a better, healthier place. I need to let him go,'» she said. He still has that piece of skin. «It doesn’t hurt or anything, I feel like cartilage in my hand; for now, it’s still there,» he said.
The video he shared under the user @tambinayano82 went viral on Tik Tok and reached 370,000 views. In the comments, many users shared similar experiences with this type of memorial tattoos They are created by mixing a small amount of cremated remains with tattoo ink.
Lunt was amazed by the “unreal” response. And he concluded: «It’s bittersweet. But I don’t regret it. I would do it again… and again. You will always live in me, dad… «I love you and miss you more than you could ever imagine.»
