She has one million followers on TikTok and is known as "Gray Hair and Tattoos".
Women with tattoos in their fifties are stereotyped.
People think she is in a biker gang because of her ink.
Lonni Pike, a social media influencer from California, challenged the stereotypes of women in their fifties.
Her videos encourage women to embrace their individual style regardless of society's expectations.
Being 56 is not what you think it looks like, according to a video posted in November 2020. As of Thursday, the 15-second clip had over four million views.
She had over one million followers on the platform.
She said she started making videos to challenge the tattoo age gap.
Women in their forties are often told that they are too old. They said they like to wear band shirts. There are tattoos on us. People are saying we are going through a midlife crisis. I'm telling them that it's okay for them to be who they are regardless of what society tells them.
When you're younger, you're told that your tattoos aren't going to look great when you're older. You are told that you are too old to have tattoos. She said that there is never a good time to have a tattoo.
Women are encouraged to embrace their own fashion sense regardless of what society says is appropriate for their age. She can be seen wearing a pair of ripped jeans, a white top, and sunglasses in a video that has over 840,000 views. She said that she wanted to wear what she wanted at any age.
When she was 30, she got her first tattoo, a barber wire around her ankle.
She felt trapped because barbed wire either kept people in or kept people out. That was one of the reasons I got that. I didn't want to feel that way again.
She has at least 25 or 30 tattoos, including ink behind her ear, on her stomach, back, and calves.
People think tattoos are different from what they are. People with tattoos are uneducated or criminals, and you have no idea how many people think I have a Harley Davidson and I am in a biker gang. I can't even ride a bike.
She said it was an honor to be in front of the entire world and be told no.
I know what you mean. We're both moms and grandmas. Women. We are who we are and we need to remember who we are.
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