Dearest reader: Don’t try this at home. During an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday, “Bridgerton” season 2 star Simone Ashley confirmed she has tried her hand at tattooing.
As she recalled to host Jimmy Kimmel, the 26-year-old British actress was in Los Angeles during the COVID-19 lockdown and, while she tried out the more standard pandemic activities like making banana bread and tie-dying, she eventually wanted to try her hand at tattoo art.
Considering tattoo parlours were shuttered in the earliest days of the pandemic, Ashley turned to the internet, where she purchased a rotary pen “surprisingly” easily.
A novice, she also leaned on the internet to learn what exactly to do. Cue YouTube videos. She found a man suggesting some “interesting stuff” to tattoo, including using a type of deodorant stick to apparently cause a chemical reaction on the transfer paper.
Curious about the man’s unusual methods, Ashley looked at his username. “It was called PrisonTattoo.com,” she said. “I looked at his videos and I was like, ‘Wow, there’s an inmate making videos in prison.'”
And the videos turned out to help the actress, who confirmed she followed his instructions and now has a tattoo of a sphynx on her ankle.
We’re just surprised we didn’t hear this from Lady Whistledown first.
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