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Claire Hobson, a makeup artist from the UK, lost her beloved dog Patch after 20 years together, and she decided that she was not ready to let him go.
Instead of just taking his ashes with her everywhere she went, she decided to have his ashes mixed in with her semi-permanent eyeliner, so that he could still see the world through her eyes—sort of.
“I was about to move to Dubai. I was living between countries, and I thought, ‘I do not want to put his ashes in a suitcase,'” Claire recalls on British morning television.
“I thought, ‘Oh, I am getting my eyeliner tattooed, and I know that people have their loved ones tattooed on their bodies, so why not just have him, Patch, in my eyeliner?'”
Claire knew that her idea was a bit “bonkers,” but she approached a makeup-artist friend who agreed to oblige. The fact that she had recently lost a pet as well probably played a part in that decision.
They mixed a bit of Patch’s ashes into the eyeliner ink and proceeded to tattoo it onto Claire’s eyelids.
“Dogs are loyal; they are consistent. They show up every single day, and they kiss you when you come home from work, and, like, it is the purest form of love,” Claire said.
“There’s no malice. There’s no manipulation. They are happy to see you every single day for 20 years. We underestimate the loss of pets and how we want to remember them."
Claire says that people have mostly been supportive of her unique choice.
But, she quipped that her family thinks she's "certifiably crazy."
Luke Wintrip, a tattoo artist, said that "within the tattoo community, ash tattoos are very controversial, because obviously tattoo ink needs to be hygienic and sterile, and there is an argument that you are putting foreign bodies in the ink."
But it is not just pet memorial tattoos, he said. "Human ashes are just as popular as pet ashes.”
Although Claire’s eyeliner tattoo is not permanent, it will last a few years, and when she eventually needs a touch up, she has more of Patch’s ashes to use.
“He is going to be there a long time,” the makeup artist said.
SOURCE: odditycentral.com
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