A woman has covered herself in nearly 100 self-drawn tattoos at the request of strangers - and plans to keep going until she has no space left.<br /><br />Chelsea Rohrbough, 31, has tattooed herself with 96 tats resembling painful experiences or causes suggested to her by her followers.<br /><br />The mum-of-two has had over 7,000 requests for the inked designs and has a tat of a broken phone screen for those affected by online grooming.<br /><br />She documents the tattoos on TikTok and her followers leave comments on her videos with designs they'd like to see, such as the word 'love' surrounded by a fake bruise to symbolise domestic abuse.<br /><br />She also tattooed a trans person's name on her body after they were disowned by their family, and has a button for a victim of sex trafficking.<br /><br />Chelsea self-tattoed herself through 2022 but inked her first requested tat in November and now aims to do two a day until she runs out of space.<br /><br />She says she does it to try and "raise awareness" for what people request and give it the attention it "needs".<br /><br />Chelsea, an independent contractor, from Clarksberg, West Virginia, US, said: "A lot of the requests I get on my page I'm unaware of and I try and give them the attention they need.<br /><br />"I did my first one on November 17th and I've had over 7,000 suggestions since.<br /><br />"I've put on murder cases that got no justice, sex trafficking cases, transgender people who've not been accepted by their parents.<br /><br />"I want to bring awareness to those things.<br /><br />"I pick the ones that will bring the most awareness and sometimes simpler ones.<br /><br />"One was about two boys who were murdered and I wrote their football numbers on my leg and their dad reached out to say thank you.<br /><br />"My TikTok is a safe space for no judgement between each other."<br /><br />Chelsea taught herself how to tattoo after buying the supplies online and spent most of 2022 trying out different designs.<br /><br />Now she tries to do at least two designs a day until she runs out of space.<br /><br />"I've painted and drawn for years and during Covid I ordered a tattoo machine off of Amazon and self-taught," Chelsea said.<br /><br />"I'm a single mum so I couldn’t afford to do an apprenticeship."<br /><br />Chelsea says this new venture has allowed her to "feel good" knowing that she's "helping others".<br /><br />She said: "It helps them as much as it does me.<br /><br />"People always ask if it makes me depressed but I've gone on for so long feeling like I didn't have any purpose<br /><br />"As soon as I started doing this it really helped and it allows me to feel good knowing I'm helping with someone's trauma. <br /><br />"Some people say it’s not my pain to carry for someone else or that people are lying.<br /><br />"I don’t believe that anyone’s lying on there because I feel that I can tell if something’s genuine or not."<br /><br />Despite having nearly 100 requested tattoos, Chelsea knows exactly what story each represents and says she is asked about them "all the time" when she goes out.<br /><br />She said: "I get asked about it all the time when I go out.<br /><br />"I wear shorts all year round and random people stop me at the grocery store and ask who does them."<br /><br />Each tattoo takes Chelsea between one and four hours, depending on the size and she always tries to two a day of varying sizes.<br /><br />Chelsea says she's had requests from all over the world and discovered "so many" different stories.<br /><br />She said: "I did an oak tree for a little girl who died in a tornado.<br /><br />"It was the first one I put on the back of my leg and her nickname was Oakie, she was the youngest victim in the tornado.<br /><br />"The parents lost their house and daughter. I reached out to her mum and now we talk a lot."<br /><br />Chelsea plans to keep tattooing until she runs out of space, before passing the baton on to a list of fellow TikTok creators to continue.<br /><br />She said: "I still have a good bit of room but I don’t know how the heck I’m supposed to reach the back of my leg.<br /><br />"By the time I stop it’ll be past 10,000 requests and the plan is to have a few TikTokers who are going to carry it on for me on their bodies.<br /><br />"Then they’ll continue the list of requests whilst starting their own list of requests.<br /><br />"I don’t want it to end with me. I want it to go further so people can still get their bad experiences out and let someone else do that for them."
