While TikToker Ash (@queenbaard) was at a bar with her friends, they encouraged her to ask the bartender out. They ended up exchanging contact information. Later, they planned a date.
Ash laid out three options: an Italian restaurant, the Botanical Gardens light show, or they could tattoo each other on an airplane. The bartender chose the last date idea.
Ash sent her plane tickets to different airlines, and they booked their flights together. They would be flying to Las Vegas for a 12-hour date. The flight was not for another three weeks.
During the three-week period, they agreed not to talk to each other until the flight to keep things mysterious. As you can probably tell, the word “casual” is not even in Ash’s vocabulary.
Almost everything she does is purely for the plot.
So, they met at the terminal and did some work on their computers during the flight before getting to the tattooing. The tattoos did not turn out the best, so they decided to get matching tattoos in Vegas.
Ash managed to tattoo a wobbly A on her date’s arm. They had a lot of fun hanging out in Vegas and spending time getting to know each other. It was definitely not your average first date!
They were both also going through breakups, so they could relate to each other on that. Ash thinks they’ll be friends for life, even if they don’t continue to date, because they matched each other’s chaotic energy.
Although Ash was excited about her interesting and spontaneous adventure, the comments section had concerns about safety and hygiene.
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Some TikTok users questioned whether the tools were disposed of properly and if the area had been sanitized, pointing out that airplanes are high-touch environments. Every day, crowds of people come and go, contaminating almost all the surfaces.
“As a tattoo artist, this horrifies me a little bit!! Airplanes are disgustingly dirty and have so many germs everywhere!! And I hope you have a proper way to dispose of your used/contaminated tools after the stick and poke sesh. Ugh, and please sanitize the area you’re working on, before and especially after,” commented one user.
“As someone who works with airplanes…I hate touching anything on an airplane. I just got a tattoo two days ago and refused to uncover it on the ramp, let alone getting tattooed there,” wrote another.
“Not a tattoo artist, but a nurse! Came here to say the same thing! This terrifies me!!” exclaimed a third.
For some people, healing looks like journaling about their feelings and going to therapy. Others prefer to be more impulsive, doing things like flying to Vegas to tattoo a stranger at tens of thousands of feet in the air.
By Emily Chan
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