St. Cloud Tattoo Shop Donates Thousands to Local Charites

(KNSI) – A St. Cloud tattoo shop presented checks to three area organizations supported by September’s Tattoo For A Cause event.

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On Thursday, Fresh Skin Tattoo donated around $4,000 to The Beautiful Mind Project, INDY Foundation and Operation 23 to Zero. The money came from over 250 people, some waiting hours, who selected one of 22 tattoos to support causes near and dear to their hearts. They included support of amnesia awareness, anorexia/bulimia, autism awareness, cancer, Crohn’s disease, dementia awareness, mental health, Parkinson’s disease, or veteran suicide awareness.

Fresh Skin owner Shawn Neu was behind the needle for nearly 12 hours and said it was an amazing and humbling experience, but it was exhausting. “I feel like I got run over by a bus the next day. I took two days off afterwards, and then hit it back hard again afterwards. The hand went numb after a while and you just keep going. You just think about something else and keep going.”

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Neu says it took nearly two weeks to finish everyone’s tattoo. He’s already planning next year’s event. “We’re going to get more businesses involved. And get more tattoo artists going so people aren’t waiting soo long. We want to make it a little bit more efficient with the lines and stuff like that.”

Fresh Skin Tattoo teamed up with KNSI sister station Wild Country 99 for the event.

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