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00:00Probably about 80% of my body is covered in tattoos.
00:04I just like that I'm unapologetically me.
00:06I have power over what I look like.
00:08Today, I'm covering up all my tattoos
00:10and then we're gonna reveal it to my mum.
00:12Let's go see the mirror.
00:13Here we go.
00:15I feel ugly.
00:16I think my mum's gonna freak out when she sees me.
00:18I've been thinking, am I gonna recognize her?
00:28My name's Casey.
00:29I've been tattooed for the past 12 years.
00:32I think probably about 80% of my body is covered in tattoos.
00:37The first tattoo I got, I was 14 years old.
00:41It's my star signed Aries.
00:43Am I addicted?
00:45I wouldn't say I'm an addict,
00:47but definitely tattooing helped me
00:50to become more of my own person.
00:54It's been my outlet and helped me to express myself
00:57and I guess find my own defining place in society.
01:02Today is really exciting.
01:04We've got a makeup artist coming
01:06and she's gonna cover my whole body in makeup
01:08so that I'm completely clear skinned.
01:12Then we're gonna reveal it to my mum
01:13who hasn't seen me in a very long time as well.
01:16Susie.
01:16Casey.
01:17Hi.
01:18I'm definitely excited to see myself.
01:19It's been a long 12 years.
01:22I think when people see me,
01:24a lot of the time what I get told is,
01:26oh, you're a beautiful girl,
01:28why have you done that to your face?
01:30Is she a criminal or is she affiliated with a gang?
01:33Is she a bad person?
01:35You just gotta take it with a grain of salt sometimes.
01:38Okay, Casey, let's get started.
01:40So we do the pink first
01:42and the pink cancels out the navy blue.
01:51My Aries sister.
01:52We'll get rid of our little ram sign.
01:55It's a psychological journey that you're going on
01:58where erasing your visual identity
02:00is something that you've had for a really long time.
02:08You've had quite a journey, haven't you, with the tattoos?
02:10You've had them be celebrated
02:13and then you've had them not be celebrated,
02:14which is a really big trip
02:16and a big psychological journey to go on.
02:18To have people judge you because of how you look.
02:21But look at you, you're shiny
02:23and you're coming out the other side
02:25and you're making good choices for you.
02:27I'm actually getting all my face tattoos lasered off.
02:30They've been the real marker
02:32in what I need to change to get to where I'm now going.
02:36So do you want to work with children?
02:38And having the ink on your face,
02:39you feel that that's maybe getting in your way.
02:42It's just a new journey, a new path
02:44and it's just something I've got to do.
02:47I think that's a thing with growing older.
02:49Your mind changes, your goals change.
02:52That's definitely been something
02:54that's made me want to go through this experience.
03:00Hopefully when they see my face today
03:02covered up with no tattoos,
03:04it helps sort of reinforce the backbone of the reason
03:09why I'm going through the laser and going through the pain.
03:13I do actually feel naked now.
03:15All right, darling, we're finished.
03:17Oh, you're a little bit cold.
03:18How are you feeling?
03:19It's almost time for the big reveal.
03:20I'm really nervous.
03:23But I'm excited and I'm really nervous.
03:25Let's go, let's go to the mirror.
03:26Okay.
03:27Here we go.
03:28Okay.
03:33Oh my God.
03:40Oh, it's so weird.
03:44I feel ugly.
03:46I feel really self-conscious again.
03:49I think it's just because it doesn't feel like me.
03:52I don't even remember what it's like.
03:54Like I remember, like I said, I feel like I'm the young me,
03:57but I still don't remember what it's like
04:00to not be the way I am.
04:02Well, this is what it's going to look like
04:03when you have all the ink removed off your face.
04:06Yeah, I can probably do it.
04:07There you go.
04:09It's growing on me.
04:12As I'm standing here and getting used to it,
04:14even with the rest of my body still covered,
04:16I think that people will look at me
04:17in a totally different light, actually.
04:21My mum loves who I am.
04:24And so I think she'll probably prefer who I am
04:26with my tattoos,
04:27but I think it'll probably be nice for her
04:29to maybe see her little girl again for a moment.
04:32Am I going to recognise her?
04:34I'm so used to her with her tattoos.
04:38I'm not really sure what my reaction is going to be,
04:41but I'm looking forward to it.
04:46Wow, don't you look amazing?
04:49I was going to go, oh, wow.
04:52Oh, wow.
04:53You look beautiful, my darling.
04:56You are so gorgeous.
04:58Look at you.
05:00Do you like it better or do you like it?
05:02I love both.
05:03I love you either way.
05:05You're my darling.
05:06Her beautiful face.
05:08You can really see her beautiful face now.
05:11I love that.
05:12I really do like that.
05:13I can really see your face.
05:15And your hands.
05:17And my hands.
05:18Your face and your hands.
05:21Your face and your hands.
05:24I love a good finger.
05:25I definitely realise that I'm so happy
05:29in the skin that I'm in,
05:30and I'm really happy with who I am.
05:32I think I'll still definitely go ahead
05:34with getting my face lasered off.
05:36It's been a big day,
05:37and it's been pretty cool to see this transition,
05:41but I'm done.
05:44I want to get this off,
05:46and yeah, get back to the real me.