South Carolina Republican Congresswoman Reveals Tattooed Arms: ‘The Pain That I Need to Feel’

Nancy Mace is showing off her tattooed arms as she prepares to leave Washington and move on from politics.

The 48-year-old South Carolina congresswoman debuted her tattooed arms for the first time in a series of new YouTube videos, including one posted on Saturday, August 14.

In promos for her YouTube show, Get Maced, the Republican lawmaker, whose term ends in January, wore a sleeveless top that revealed colorful artwork covering both arms. The videos also included her detailing her plans after leaving Capitol Hill.

Mace first revealed she’d gotten nine tattoos in a February interview with Politico, saying the ink helped her “reclaim” her identity.

The South Carolina Republican told the outlet in February that she got inked after losing or firing every member of her Washington, D.C., staff two years earlier, saying they gave her “the pain that I need to feel.”

Among the designs visible in her new videos is a line from Virginia Woolf‘s Mrs. Dalloway, reading, “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” She also appears to have a bird, a flower and the word “justice” written vertically down her arm, according to Newsweek.

The announcement comes two months after Mace finished fifth in the Republican primary for South Carolina governor, ending her campaign for the state’s top office, AP reported in June 2026.

She gave up her House seat to run, so her third and final term in Congress is set to wrap in January 2027.

In her YouTube video, Mace said she’s weighing “some companies” and looking forward to spending more time outside politics. “I missed out on a lot when I was in Congress for six years,” she said, as reported by People, adding that she won’t disappear from the political conversation entirely. “I’ll still weigh in,” she said.

“I do love the commentary… It’s even more freeing [and] liberating now that I’m not running again.”