Kerstin Tristan spent most of her life believing tattoos were \u201cnot for her.\u201d A mother and grandmother, she fit every stereotype of what a woman her age was supposed to look like\u2014until something inside her refused to keep shrinking to fit. At 56, she walked into a tattoo parlor \u201cjust to try something new,\u201d and never looked back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since that first session in 2015, Kerstin has invested around 30,000 euros transforming her skin into what she calls a \u201cbeautiful meadow full of flowers.\u201d Vivid roses climb her legs, leopard spots frame her shoulders, portraits and blossoms wind along her arms. Online, hundreds of thousands follow her, praising her as a \u201cwork of art.\u201d Critics still say she\u2019s \u201ctoo old,\u201d but Kerstin\u2019s life now answers them more clearly than words: self\u2011expression doesn\u2019t have an expiration date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kerstin Tristan spent most of her life believing tattoos were \u201cnot for her.\u201d A mother and grandmother, she fit every stereotype of what a woman her age was supposed to … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n