I finally got my dream tattoo but it’s not what I wanted, I can’t stop crying but trolls say I’m in the wrong
A WOMAN has shared a video of herself sobbing after the tattoo of her dreams didn’t live up to expectation.
The anonymous filmed herself crying on TikTok after returning from a tattoo session for a floral outline on her back.
“The butterfly looks like it was out of a cartoon book, a colouring book,” she exclaimed in a teary video that has drawn 1.3 million views since it was shared
“When your tattoo is nothing like you asked for and it’s huge,” she said.
She claimed the “flowers are so big” and looks “nothing like the picture” she showed the unnamed tattoo artist.
“I’m literally stuck with this f***ing thing for the rest of my life,” she wails between sobs.
In subsequent videos posted to TikTok, the woman claimed she had been to the artist
twice before.
She said this time, she showed him a photo from Instagram of what she wanted – a tattoo of dainty flowers and a butterfly climbing up the right side of her back.
While he reportedly showed her a photo of the stencil — since she couldn’t see her own back — he said he needed to “make it my own,” deviating from the original design.
“I cried the whole way home, it was like a 40-minute drive,” she continued, showing a photo of the tattoo she received.
The ink actually looked pretty similar to the original photo, perhaps just with some darker line work.
“I was dramatic,” she admitted.
Users in the comments complimented the design, telling her that shading might make her feel differently.
“It’s just not what I wanted,” she said, while also admitting it’s her fault for not scrutinising the artist’s sketch more.
“It’s not as bad as what I thought, but when you have expectations for something, you’re going to be upset about it, and that’s why I was crying.”
Commenters slammed the TikToker for approving the sketchy stencil before having it inked onto her skin.
“I don’t get how people get bad tattoos like they literally do a stencil and ask you if you like it?” one user said.
“Happens to us all. Sometimes they don’t stick to the stencil,” declared another user.
This story was originally published on the New York Post and has been republished here with permission.