It was my 30th birthday, and I wanted to have a group tattoo session. I arranged a specific session…read morefor my friends, and I arranged the session a month in advance to confirm that we can get tattoos at the same time and that our reference photos would be taken into account. The day before, I confirmed our tattoo appointment. It wasn't till the day they mentioned that my tattoo artist was running late and was a free style artist, so I couldn't see the design in advance.
My two friends had a lovely professional experience that had predesigned stencils and communications with their artists. Unfortunately for me, the artist i got was an hour and a half late, didn't shave my arm, didn't provide a stencil, and didn't research the reference photos I provided a month earlier. They are freestyle artist that I assumed saw the reference photos I provided, but when they got there, they asked what flower i wanted. The tattoo assistant mentioned that he sent her the photos, and she scrambled to find them. They didn't tattoo the morning glory flowers well at all, and I cried a lot. The tattoo was too big and didn't match the width of my arms. It seems like the tattoo artist isnt experienced in porpotioning tattoos according to placement.
They were nice enough to try to fix it up in the moment, but it still wasn't what I wanted. The initial finished design was not the fine line that I inquired about initially and its not a balanced design, i didnt realize it until it was too late, and now im gonna have to pay to laser it off. It's not a bad tattoo but not the one I wanted for my birthday trip and not the one i want to keep for the rest of my life. This is the first time in my life i heavily regretted a tattoo, and it was my 5th one. Im at least happy that my friends were able to have a better tattoo experience than I did.
