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Layla Nicholson & Cian O'Broin

Mum with 800 tattoos is banned from pub for life - and she's 'barred from school' too

A woman who is known for causing controversy with her massive tattoo collection is barred from both a pub and a school for life.

Melissa Sloan, 46, has three different tattoos put onto her face each week, The Daily Star reports.

To feed her "addiction", the Welsh mother gets inked "prison style" by her partner Luke all within her own home.

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The Daily Star has rounded up all the places Melissa has allegedly been barred from.

Work

Her tattoo collection all over her face and body impedes her from getting any job.

She once worked as a toilet cleaner.

“I can’t get a job," she exclusively shared.

"They won’t have me. I applied for a job cleaning toilets where I live and they won’t have me because of my tattoos. The first job I had was cleaning ages ago, cleaning toilets. People have said I have never have had a job in my life, I have had one once and it didn’t last long," she said.

She said she would take the first job she is offered.

Tattoo shops

She has now lost track of how many tattoos she has.

Despite mostly getting tatted at home, she occasionally gets tricky work done at tattoo shops.

However Melissa says she's been "banned" from parlours because her face is "beyond help".

"Tattoo shops shut the door on me – tattooists won't let me in," Melissa said.

(Melissa Sloan)

Pubs

She's now got a "life ban" for entering any pubs because of her permanently tattooed face.

"I'm not allowed in the pub, it's all pubs," she explained.

"I've been banned for life from pubs in the past because of the tattoos. I [have gone] into pubs and have people look at me like I'm nobody, you get judgemental people. I am banned from pubs in my area, I can't get in because of my tattoos," she stated.

School

During the Christmas period, the mum was allegedly banned from her children's school.

She claims she was made to watch her child's nativity play through the window as people can't look past her different appearance.

"No Christmas parties and when I go to my child's school I don't get invited," Melissa said.

Melissa even struggles to leave the house as strangers heckle on her on the street to the point she was called a "freak" in front of her kids.

She claims she recently declined the offer for "free" laser treatment on the NHS to remove her face ink.

The mum felt it would be a waste of time to get the ink removed as she would just start all over again.

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