Pink super-fans Tiana Cresswell and her aunt Bernadette White will have permanent inked souvenirs after the pop star drew a tattoo design for them during Tuesday’s show at Forsyth Barr Stadium.
The pair smuggled a poster into the event reading "Please design our next tattoo?", waving it in Pink’s direction at the perfect moment.
Ms Cresswell, 22, said she was in "disbelief" when Pink saw her poster and asked security to pass it to her.
"I was like ‘this is not happening; that is unreal’."
"When she did it, like, I was just like freaking out trying to find the pen."
Pink suggested drawing a frog on a skateboard, but after mishearing Ms Cresswell she instead signed the poster with an "xoxo" next to it.
She got the idea from another concert-goer in Auckland who pulled a similar stunt during an Ashnikko concert.
She convinced her aunt — who had never had a tattoo before — to get a matching tattoo if they were successful.
"Tiana came to me and said ‘I’ve got a proposition for you. If I do this poster, will you get a matching tattoo with me?’ And I said, yeah, yeah, yeah — thinking it would not work."
Ms White, 42, said she had been a Pink fan since "day dot".
"I’ve loved her music since I was 15-16.
"Album after album, her music just speaks to you."
"She’s been my biggest idol since she first came out."
Ms Cresswell became a Pink fan through Ms White.
"I follow a lot of what Aunty Bernie does. I have since, like, I was a baby.
"You can see that in the way that she interacts with the fans and the way she is with her family and everything — I think she’s just real."
The pair intend on getting their matching tattoos very soon and have already planned for a tattoo artist from Dunedin’s Subconscious Studios to do them.
Ms Cresswell intends to get her tattoo on her thigh, while first-timer Ms White will get hers on her arm.
