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Tattoo enthusiasts

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Despite her initial fear of tattoos and needles, Countess Coitus Carcass displays tattoos that both frighten and fascinate — her facial tattoos especially. 

The exposed jawline shows broken and missing teeth and rotting flesh. She has half a dozen flies crawling around her eyes and a slashed neck that’s so real you could almost swear her tendons and arteries are gruesomely exposed to world. She’s the kind of woman you never forget — one way or another.

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The tattoo trend

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“From my understanding, you can’t fire someone for having a tattoo, or if you hire them and then they get a tattoo, you still can’t fire them for it,” Brandoh Boyko says. “Granted, an employer will always just find a way to get rid of them — they won’t say that officially, but that’s what it is.” 

For Boyko, who has tattoos covering most of his body, this seems completely bias and unfair and he says that having tattoos doesn’t make you less qualified for the job. 

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