It's been said that tattoos are like potato chips. You can't have just one.

Call it a fascination, addiction or even a passion, but people these days are intrigued by (and covered with) more tattoos than ever. So, it makes sense that when Heidi B. Haywood, The Mountaineer's de facto Facebook mascot, asked Haywood County folks to send in pictures of their tattoos for a competition, the tats came rolling in.

There could only be two winners, however, one for the ladies and one for the gents. Meet Becca Bowen and Jackson Reece, the newly crowned Tattoo King and Queen of Haywood County. Both received the most "likes" for their tattoos, but that's about where their similarities end. For Bowen and Reece, like so many lovers of ink, their tattoos tell deeply individual stories — of their past, ...