Love is more than skin deep.
And one TikToker by the name of Angelica is proving just that, choosing to have a piece of her husband’s skin framed as a family keepsake after his death.
“My husband was the biggest Steelers fan. How big? We preserved his real tattoo—his actual skin,” she wrote on TikTok July 23, sharing an image of her late spouse’s body art—a skull painted with the Pittsburgh-based NFL team’s logo and colors—enshrined in a black picture frame. “This isn’t a replica. You can see his hair, his wrinkles, the ink I kissed goodnight.”
According to Angelica, her son chose to preserve this tattoo out of more than 70 designs her husband had inked across his body because “this is the one Dad would want.”
“And no, my son and I don’t think it’s weird at all,” Angelica explained in a July 26 video. “When my husband passed away unexpectedly, I knew that this is something that we were going to do because we had talked about it.”