A woman who has at least 30 tattoos on her face and head – and so many more on her body she has lost count – says her “addiction” to getting inked has helped her overcome her shyness and makes her feel beautiful.
Sabrina Dieck, 36, had just three discreet inkings on her spine before she moved from her native Germany to Doncaster, England aged 29 and started getting tattooed monthly.
The sales manager now plans to cover her entire body in ink by the time she is 40 – even though she is not sure she is brave enough to complete the artwork on the top of her feet because it hurt so much when they were being shaded.
Sabrina Dieck showing off some of her tattoos (Collect/PA Real Life)
Sabrina, who moved back to Berlin last year after spending six years in the north of England, admitted: “I must say it’s addictive. I now have no idea how many I have got.”
But undeterred, she vowed: “I want to cover everywhere except my eyeballs. The tattoos have helped with my confidence.
“Before them, I was shy. Now I feel so beautiful and different. I can’t even say how much they’ve helped.”
Sabrina has lost count of her tattoos (Collect/PA Real Life)
Sabrina, who has been single for four years, does not dwell long on her tattoo decisions.
Deciding to get her first face tattoo in 2018 was a “five-minute decision” taken during a cigarette break to think it over.
And she said: “None of my tattoos have taken that much thinking about. Normally I decide on the day. One minute I know I want it done, an hour later I’m lying on someone’s couch.”
Two revolvers are tattooed on Sabrina’s chest (Collect/PA Real Life)
Growing up Soltau in Germany, Sabrina first decided she wanted tattoos as a young child when she saw singers with inkings in music videos and loved how unique they looked.
“They looked so different and like no one else and I loved that,” she said.
“Back then, you didn’t see many people around with tattoos and I thought it was amazing.”
Sabrina before she had most of her tattoos, in 2013 (Collect/PA Real Life)
She added: “I imagined getting one tattoo – maybe a rose or skull or dolphin – but never this many!”
But Sabrina had to wait to have her first tattoo – a Chinese symbol she chose because she loved the shape of it.
She said: “It was just a couple of weeks after my 18th birthday as my mum made …….
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