Pippa Tshabalala is a bubble of energy and a versatile woman, bouncing from presenting to writing to producing – clearly someone who keeps herself very busy. Not only is she a jack-of-all-trades, but she has plenty of passion too. One of her favourite pursuits is tattoos. She has several adorning her body and the Cape Town Tattoo Convention, Southern Ink Xposure – which has been running annually since 2009 – is something she never misses. “I go every year. I have been since the first year and the only year I didn’t have any work done was when I was pregnant. This year I had two pieces done. One by Jan “Munky” Giebelmann from Fallen Heroes and another by Milo “Mr. Lucky” Marcer, my go-to guy.” She speaks about her tattoos with the excitement of a child telling you what she got for Christmas. She had her first tattoo done when she was 18 and admits that she went for a bit of a cliché, having Chinese writing stamped on the left side of her back – “but it does mean what I thought it meant,” she assures me. Although a bit bashful about it, she says she will never have it removed. It has become a symbol for her, “to remind me to think things through carefully.” You can ask her anything about the art and she will be able to answer with ease and dexterity. The same can be said of gaming, her other passion.

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