I got a really, really bad tattoo and am going to have to pay 3x what it cost to get it removed.

My artist told me how challenging this tattoo was for him to do after he did it for me. And at that point all you can do is cross your fingers and hope it survives the healing process, which mine isn't. I wish he had told me beforehand how hard he thought it would be to do, yes it's my fault as well but he should have said "This will be a really hard tattoo to translate to skin" beforehand, not after the session was done.

I understand now why people keep bad tattoos though, it isn't necessarily pride. It's between trusting another person to do a coverup that actually looks good (like trusting initial artist who failed) or spending at least a grand on removal.

/r/self Thread Parent