It’s by no means too late to get inked.
Vanna White hit up the tattoo store the place her daughter, Gigi Santo Pietro, gave the “Wheel of Fortune” star her very first ink.
“I lastly received my first tattoo, given to me by my gifted daughter @gigisantopietro!!” White, 68, introduced in the caption of an Instagram video posted Monday.
“I’ll consider her each time I have a look at it. 🩷” the proud mother added.
Within the video, White shared that her “stunning daughter” Gigi, 28, is a tattoo artist — however she didn’t persuade her mother to get tatted.
“She’s not making me do that. It’s my selection to do that,” White clarified whereas standing exterior of the Lincoln Tattoo Firm in Venice, Calif., earlier than her appointment.
White stated she determined to get a fragile coronary heart tattooed on the within of her wrist so she will be able to “have a look at it day by day.”
“Now the laborious half is selecting out which coronary heart and which coloration,” White admitted.
The tattoo artist defined that there have been “many styles and sizes” for her mom to select from.
“I believe I would like pink,” White stated, explaining that she loves the colour.
“I can’t see that for you,” Santo Pietro joked whereas staring proper at White’s mild pink sweater.
White stated she was “shaking” as she narrowed her selections down to 3 completely different shades of pink.
In the end, she landed on her daughter’s favourite pink hue as a result of it had a touch of salmon to it.
“It’s meant to be. We’ve chosen a coloration,” White stated earlier than taking a look at choices on an iPad of the form choices for the center and selecting a easy bubble model.
The TV character fessed as much as being “nervous” whereas seated within the tattoo chair as her wrist was disinfected and prepped.
“I can really feel you shaking. No stress, no stress,” Santo Pietro advised her mother to calm her down.
White stated that she couldn’t watch and that she “would possibly cross out,” earlier than she was hit with the needle.
“I’ve been wanting to do that for a very long time,” White stated. “I actually have, I’m so comfortable.”
Santo Pietro agreed that she was “tremendous comfortable” to seek out out that she was lastly capable of tattoo the previous mannequin.
As soon as the tattoo course of began, White was pleasantly stunned to seek out that it didn’t damage.
“That’s it?” she requested, including that there was no ache.
As soon as the tattoo was full, White stated that the ultimate outcome got here out “good.”
“It’s simply desire a needed!” she exclaimed. “It truly is, Gigi! Thanks.”
Santo Pietro responded with an enormous smile, gushing, “You’ve got a tattoo! Identical to that.”
White wrapped up the video by giving Santo Pietro a hug and a kiss and flaunting her new physique artwork for the digicam.
White shares Gigi and son Nikko together with her ex-husband George Santo Pietro, whom she was married to from 1990 to 2002.
