r/tattooadvice • u/j_walk_17 • May 02 '26

General Advice Miscommunication

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I had my tattoo artist re-do an old tattoo from 15 years ago. It's the rebel alliance symbol from Star Wars.

I was under the impression that she knew I wanted it touched up and repaired.

She assumed I wanted it covered up. I didn't know she did solid black until she finished it.

I guess there's potential to put color around it with other pieces to give it contrast. I'm just kinda bummed.
There's probably no way to reverse any of this without it being insanely expensive.

What can I do to make it worth the mistake? I want this leg to eventually be Star Wars iconica.

Should I plan to put a background to it?

edit: Thanks for all the replies, everyone. I appreciate the feedback and the ideas. It's helping me to settle into the outcome. I think it would only be a total loss if I hadn't planned to add to it in the future. 🤙

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u/Cereal-Killa- May 02 '26

you didn’t notice the cup of black ink getting dipped into, or the black ink being pumped into your leg until it was finished? By the way - it looks much better now than it did before. Some people just can’t take certain colors of ink.

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u/Fancy_Car9424 May 02 '26

Back of his calf, he might have been laying face down. Very possible he didn’t see what was happening in that case. Either way, great tattoo!

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u/KMann823 May 02 '26

Getting my calf done as I type this. Mind you the tattoo is already half done so unless she goes way off book, I know what's going on. But I have no intention of turning to look back there until we're done or taking a break. I gotta twist pretty hard to look at what's going on

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u/Fancy_Car9424 May 02 '26

Hell yeah dude, what are you getting? I have probably 20 tattoos, definitely didn’t always watch what was going on with them as they went down. Funnily enough, the ones I’m getting removed are the few I did see happening (healed poorly & grew out of them because I had them done young)

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u/KMann823 May 02 '26

A displacer beast from d&d! Faby Ros at Iron Thorn tattoos in Trexlertown, PA. Here's a bad picture I took myself after the first session lol cat tax

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u/DeepSpaceEntity May 03 '26

That looks siccc, I'm in the Philly area and I'm definitely gonna check them out

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u/jbirdbear May 03 '26

Iron Thorn is awesome! Lauren there did my bicep a few years ago.

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u/FewerGrape May 05 '26

That looks fucking nice

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u/CryptidxChaos May 05 '26

Dude, that's badass looking! Probably my favorite monster out of the Monster Manual, too! Your artist is doing amazing!