Bridgerton's Simone Ashley has told how she gave herself a tattoo over lockdown using instructions from a prison inmate's online tutorial.
In a new interview, the actress, who plays Kate Sharma in season two of the hit Netflix original, revealed she ended up purchasing a tattoo gun online after becoming bored during lockdown.The Netflix star told how she gave herself the inking during lockdown.Simone revealed: "So I've tattooed myself, I've tattooed castmates I've worked with before."I was in LA over lockdown actually in 2020 and I did all the regular stuff like making banana bread, tie-dyeing, all of that kind of stuff."She went on to explain how she ended up ordering a tattoo gun off of the internet.The actor explained: "I thought it would be a good idea to get my own tattoo pen with a needle and everything."It’s called a rotary pen."She went on to add she bought it online, saying it was "surprisingly easy" and she "didn't need" any forms of ID.“I just clicked a button… Apple Pay," she explained.After buying the tattoo pen in lockdown, Simone was left to learn how to use it at home as "all the legit tattoo shops [were] shut"."So I was like, 'how to do a tattoo at home,'" she said, explaining she was searching on the internet.She went on: "And I found this video and it was like, 'You can use this deodorant stick, it has this chemical reaction on the transfer paper,' and all of this stuff."Then it started getting a bit deep and I was like, 'Oh, this guy's using some really interesting stuff.'"And I looked at the username and it was called, 'PrisonTattoo.com,'" she told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on his self-titled show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!She went on: “I looked at his videos and I was like ‘Wow, there’s an inmate making.
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