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"From then on, I learned that just because getting something for $50 seems like a good idea, it’s not. I’ll never get another home-job tattoo again."
"But I still fucking love Drake, so the sentiment stuck."
"Yeahhh, fast-forward 20 years or so, and the Hatchetman has been covered up. I do my best to forget how I was back then."
"It’s done so badly. The artist was watching The Hills Have Eyes the entire time, so all I heard was screaming while getting it done. Learned my lesson to research my artists and not just go to the first strip mall shop I see. Still love John Lennon and his music, but hate the tattoo!"
"Yeah, that's getting covered eventually..."
"Fuckin' Bieber..."
"It’s patchy as fuck. I was supposed to go back to get it fixed, but the pain from the first time was enough. I had actual tears in my eyes getting it done. 😩😂"
"Got it when I was 20...had it covered up now, though, with a flower (and a tiny butterfly next to it in honor of the original). This is the before and after. Covered with a larkspur — my husband's birth flower."
—Kp
"This was on there. Great. Can’t even hide it in the summer."
"My style changes pretty often, so I wish I could change my tattoo with it!"
"One of my favorite songs is 'Wounded' by Third Eye Blind. It’s about the singer’s friend who was sexually assaulted. As a survivor myself, I wanted to get a marigold, which is a reference from the song.
"This flower is UGLY. I told the artist that I didn’t like the leaves, but she seemed so annoyed and bothered that I just told her they were fine and went through with the tattoo anyway. That was in March. Now I’m already two sessions into the removal process because it just reminds me of a time when I didn’t advocate for myself and what I wanted."
"'There was no telling what people might find out if they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.'"
—ali
"I don’t have one that I regret, but I do regret the way I got it. This was after I got the stick 'n' poke done over by a professional tattoo artist."
"I live in Hawaii. In 2008, I got a Honu tattoo with the Hawaiian Island chain on my foot at a seedy strip mall tattoo shop. In 2016, I went to the Pacific Art Tattoo Expo and, on a whim, got a cover-up done to turn my Honu into a galaxy."