Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
'I felt insecure about my looks so covered myself in tattoos – even my eyeballs'
dailystar.co.uktattoo artist revealed what inspired her to cover her entire body in ink – including her eyeballs.Lorraine Moriera, known as Ravena, used to lack confidence in her appearance.But after seeing a stranger walking around in public with bold body art, she fell in love with the alternative look.Shortly after, the model and digital creator got her first inking at the age of 18.The 26-year-old, from Goiânia Goiás in Brazil, said: “I got my first tattoo when I was 18 on my back – she is a tribal [figure] with roses.“I remember once I saw a boy he was heavily tattooed, I remember looking at him and imagining how confident he was with himself." Ravena, who regularly posts snaps of her ink onto Instagram page @raven_77, continued: “That was my first trigger.
was a very insecure girl with my body, my appearance. “I got inspired. That moment. I thought to myself this is how I want to be, this is the security I need.”And, Ravena has even had the whites of her eyes coloured in using a procedure called scleral tattooing.It requires a pigment to be injected in between the layers of the eyeball and it can be dangerous if not performed correctly.But, the model claims it didn’t even hurt!Ravena noted: “I did the eyeball (eye pigmentation) in February 2021.
It is a completely painless procedure.“It is customary to say, ‘eyes are seen, all by a look’. I wanted to intensify it all.”In comparison, one part of Ravena’s body hurt more than all the others.She explained: “The tattoo that hurt the most so far is the one I'm getting on my belly.”Now, Ravena is covered in ink and is mostly inspired by her own experiences.She told us: “My tattoos are inspired by my life, I try to tell a little bit about myself in each drawing.
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