A mother who is covered in tattoos is having a hard time finding a job, as she claims businesses aren't willing to hire her due to how she looks.
Tattoos have long been a subject of disagreement, particularly between generations, but as time progresses people are becoming more open to body art.
Increasingly, tattoo art is now understood to be an expression of one's self in the form of permanent ink.
Though one mother in the UK has found it pretty hard to convince employers to give her a chance, as she has over 800 tattoos covering her from head to toe.
As reported by the Daily Star, 46-year-old Melissa Sloan from Wales has at least three new designs applied to herself every week.
The majority of the tattoos are applied "prison style" by her partner Luke in the comfort of their own home.
Discussing her employment options, Sloan said: "I can’t get a job. They won’t have me. I applied for a job cleaning toilets where I live and they won’t have me because of my tattoos.
"The first job I had was cleaning ages ago, cleaning toilets. People have said I have never had a job in my life, I have had one once and it didn’t last long. But, if someone offered me a job tomorrow I would go and work - I would take that offer."
Sloan remains unemployed and is currently living off of government allowances to get by - but she has been making a clear effort to gain employment.
This isn't the only environment where the mother is judged for her looks, as she sadly revealed that she is unable to attend her children's school plays.
Exclusively speaking to the Daily Star, Sloan revealed that Christmas is a particularly hard time as her children's school makes her stand outside and watch the annual nativity performance through the window.
"No Christmas parties and when I go to my child's school I don't get invited," Sloan revealed. "They said once for me to go to the back garden and look through the class window."
Due to the treatment she receives, the tattoo "addict" stopped going to the school plays completely because she didn't appreciate how the teachers and other parents reacted to her.
Not only this, but Sloan revealed that she had been barred from various pubs due to her tattoos so can't partake in the Christmas tradition in the UK of spending it in the boozer with family and friends.
To add to her woes, tattoo shops will no longer let her in and that's why she's had to resort to her partner Luke giving her the weekly dose of ink.
Sloan said: "Tattoo shops shut the door on me - tattooists won't let me in. When I had this done [my face], there's one about five miles up the road and they won't do it."
She finished off by joking: "They won't do it because I'm beyond help because I've gone too far."
Despite all of this, Sloan is proud of her body art and has no intention of slowing down.
