Tiwa Savage, popular Nigerian singer, has explained what inspired her full sleeve tattoos.
The singer-songwriter in a recent interview with media personality Katy Igwe disclosed that a traumatic heartbreak made her acquire tattoos.
She shared that she had to fly in the tattoo artist from Los Angeles to her house in Lagos because she didn’t want to express her pain publicly in a tattoo parlour.
The mother of one disclosed that the session was bloody and the tattoo artist was worried.
“I flew in my tattoo artist from LA to Nigeria. And I did it [the tattoo] in my room. So I was in an environment where I was comfortable. When you are in a tattoo parlour sometimes a lot of people are working and then you are going through that pain. I wanted to make sure that I was in a comfortable place.
“My tattoo artist walked in and was like, ‘What are you doing?… Is that going to come off?’ He started tattoo my body, there was blood everywhere. So he was more concerned for me like, ‘What are you trying to do?’
“I did that [the tattoo] from the pain I felt from a heartbreak. I just wanted to do something to scream,” she explained.
Savage added, “The Last two years were a very hard time. The relationship I experienced was crazy. I’m so happy I’m out of that relationship.”
