MICKY loves the attention her head-turning style attracts, and her work as an alternative model proves plenty of other people love it too. Her signature style is a brightly coloured mullet with matching shadow and liner around the eyes as well as facial piercings and black tees for dress down days, or vests with a lot of straps, and less material, on dress up days, to show off her many tattoos.
She got her first tattoo when she was 16 or 17 (she can’t remember which; either way she was under the legal age to get a tattoo in Australia without parental consent) and hid it from her mum for six months. Since then Micky has learnt to tattoo and throughout 2020 she has improved on her tattooing with her ‘practice leg’ she uses for her own designs. Micky plans to eventually be more covered and says that with each tattoo she gets, Micky feels more herself. Her husband Phil, who she met through Instagram, also loves Micky’s alternative looks so what will he make of seeing his alternative model wife go mainstream for the day?
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Videographer: Jose Lax
Producers: Nathalie Bonney, Kim Nguyen
Editor: Oscar McDonagh
She got her first tattoo when she was 16 or 17 (she can’t remember which; either way she was under the legal age to get a tattoo in Australia without parental consent) and hid it from her mum for six months. Since then Micky has learnt to tattoo and throughout 2020 she has improved on her tattooing with her ‘practice leg’ she uses for her own designs. Micky plans to eventually be more covered and says that with each tattoo she gets, Micky feels more herself. Her husband Phil, who she met through Instagram, also loves Micky’s alternative looks so what will he make of seeing his alternative model wife go mainstream for the day?
Follow Micky for more: https://www.instagram.com/mickybottenberg_/
Follow Neleh (MUA) for more: https://www.instagram.com/beautyby__neleh/
Videographer: Jose Lax
Producers: Nathalie Bonney, Kim Nguyen
Editor: Oscar McDonagh
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00:00I'm very alternative. It's a little bit of a mixture between scene, e-girl, pastel goth.
00:09I do like to get a lot of people staring at me. I do love the attention.
00:14So today I'm going from alternative model to mainstream honey babe.
00:20Oh my god. It's freaking me out. It's not right.
00:24I think Phil will be a little bit surprised.
00:28Oh wow.
00:31My name is Miki. I am an Instagram influencer.
00:35I would say that I'm very alternative. It's a little bit of a mixture between scene, e-girl, pastel goth.
00:45I would like more face tattoos. I want my whole back tattooed.
00:48I plan to get more added to my sleeves, my hands, my other leg.
00:53My favourite tattoos would be my chest piece, my face and my hand.
00:57I do like to get a lot of people staring at me. I do love the attention.
01:01People think that I'm a criminal or I'm a degenerate.
01:05You are solely basing this off because I'm wearing tattoos.
01:08If someone else who didn't have tattoos was wearing the same thing, you wouldn't have said anything at all.
01:15I can't picture myself living a life without my tattoos.
01:22It's kind of become a part of my life. It's become a way that I express myself.
01:29And that goes with my makeup, my hair.
01:32I'm going to milk this for as long as I can because I love it. It's me. It's fun.
01:36And I love the attention that I get from it as well.
01:39So it's going to be a trip to see me without tattoos today.
01:42I'm excited. I'm a little bit nervous.
01:45But I think I'll just look so normal.
01:49So today I'm going from alternative model to mainstream honey babe.
01:58Oh no, I see white pants.
02:00I like pink, but I think this is a little bit, a little bit much.
02:06Oh no, not white pants. This is like my worst nightmare.
02:11Sandals. Oh God.
02:15I would never ever wear anything like these.
02:19I just, I hate open toe shoes.
02:21I don't think I would ever wear this willingly ever in my life.
02:30I have no idea what to expect.
02:32I definitely feel like I hide behind my tattoos as a barrier.
02:38It's where I gain all my confidence from.
02:41I think I'm going to be very surprised.
02:44I think it's going to be a very weird experience.
02:47I don't really know what to expect.
02:50It already feels like I'm wearing someone else's skin.
02:53So it's already pretty weird.
02:57Oh my God.
03:02What?
03:03This is weird. This is really weird.
03:07Oh my God.
03:11Like, that does not look like me.
03:13It's freaking me out. It's not right.
03:16I think no matter how she looks, I would love her.
03:19But I definitely like the tattoos more than the normal plain looking ones.
03:27Oh wow.
03:30That looks a lot different than I thought it would be.
03:32Yeah.
03:33I mean, it kind of looks cute.
03:35It feels like I crawled inside someone else.
03:40It's good, but I like it too small.
03:43It makes you look more complete.
03:46It's like kissing another girl.
03:49She looks completely different.
03:50I don't think if I would see her on the street like this, I would recognize her.
03:54I look different.
03:55Yeah.
03:56It's weird.
03:57I don't quite know what to make of my new look.
04:00It definitely doesn't feel like me.
04:03But it's always nice to try something new.
04:06But I definitely prefer myself with tattoos.
04:10I think what I'll do now is probably go have a shower, scrub off all this makeup.
04:15It was fun, it was cool, but I definitely feel strange and out of place being like this.
04:32Bye.