Photo: Ibra Ake
DANI HAYES
Age: 22
Hometown: Whakatane, New Zealand
Agency: One Management
Where you've seen her: New Zealand's Next Top Model (she won in 2010), Faint magazine, Karen magazine,Black magazine
"Six months ago my best friend Kieran and I were watching RuPaul's Drag Race, and he stood up and said we should get tattoos. I'm always down for spontaneous [ink]—that's how I started. He got 'Fierce' on his finger, and I have 'Shame' on mine. When we see somebody on the street that has a fierce outfit, he goes up to them and says 'Fierce!' (wags finger). And if they look like absolute shit, then I walk up to them and go 'Shame on you.' (wags finger). It really has nothing to do with RuPaul, but that's what we were watching when we got the idea."
With all the runways that Erin Wasson, Freja Beja Erichsen, and Catherine McNeil have walked, we know their tattoos almost as well as they do. But what about the next generation of catwalk stars? Here, ten fresh new faces explain their ink.
Hair: Helena Moké; Makeup: Grace Ahn