A woman who considers herself a tattoo addict has spent so long under the needle that the experience is 'almost spiritual' to her - and now she's shared what she looked like before the ink.
Lisa Strange, 33, is currently unemployed but she still manages to find the money to get more work done and is getting two more face tattoos in the coming weeks.
She started getting inked after being bullied as a teenager, and went under the needle for the fist time at just 16-years-old - and soon she found her confidence returning.
Now Lisa, from Finland, considers herself a tattoo 'addict' and says that even though she already has around 100 tattoos she plans to get more.
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Lisa said: "I was bullied a lot in school, for ten long years. Even when I looked 'normal' I was bullied.
"This made me feel really insecure about myself and I hated myself. I started to believe the things my bullies told me every day.
"I had a very bad self-esteem and I thought that I was disgusting."
When Lisa turned 16, she decided to take matters into her own hands and went in for her first tattoo.
She continued: "At that point, I just decided that 'what the hell, they will bully and isolate me anyways so why not have my own way'.
"From that point, I started to dress pretty rock-and-roll oriented. I got my first piercings and a tattoo when I turned 16, when my friend made a stick and poke star on my right foot.
She has around 100 tattoos (mediadrumimages/LisaMermaid)
She has many piercings too (mediadrumimages/LisaMermaid)"I was always inspired by rock-and-roll and punk looks and alternative cultures will always have a special place in my heart.
"I feel much better about myself now and after each tattoo, I feel a bit more myself.
"I guess you could say it's almost a spiritual thing for me to get tattooed. I don't regret any of my tattoos, never have."
Lisa currently has almost a hundred tattoos and over twelve piercings but still wants more of both.
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She said: "I have nine face tattoos, but I am getting two more in the coming few weeks.
Lisa has no plans to stop getting inked (mediadrumimages/LisaMermaid)
Lisa has plans for two more tattoos on her face (mediadrumimages/LisaMermaid)"I can't even estimate the expense on my tattoos as I have been tattooed in so many countries and in different currencies.
"Some were cheap while others were expensive, but I have a lot of tattoo artist friends so I usually end up getting a good price.
"I also have twelve piercings out of which eight of them are on my face.
"I used to have a lot more piercings but I took a lot of them out when I started getting more tattoos."
Lisa lives with her fiancé, Ole K. Lilleeidet, 29, and together they have built a happy home, and she spends her spare time as a mermaid - swimming in pools and the sea in a specially made outfit.
"We live in Finland with our two cats Judas Pus and Lauritz," she said. "Ole and I both play different instruments and sing.
"Our home life is a lot of jamming together and rubbing lotion to each other's healing tattoos. I'd say instruments and my books take the most space in our flat and I love it."
"Mermaid swimming is my zen state. My mermaid lifestyle has always existed even before I got my first tail. I have had a deep love of water and the sea since I was a small kid, I have loved mermaids and mermaid myths.
"I feel one with water and it gives me immense peace. All my mermaid tails are fabric tails which are the cheaper solution.
"Some day, I would love to have a silicone tail but they are very pricey. A lot of my friends have been calling me a mermaid long before I even got my first tail."
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