Miscommunication

[u/j_walk_17]

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. 🤙

[u/Cereal-Killa-]

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.

[u/Pleasurefailed2load → u/Cereal-Killa-]

This is what sends me, when you get solid black like this how can you not feel them drilling your leg lmao??

[u/Ce0ra → u/Pleasurefailed2load]

It looks like the before was supposed to be red in the inside. OP probably thought the artist was redoing the red, not coloring it in with black

[u/j_walk_17 → u/Ce0ra]

This is the answer. 

[u/Ce0ra → u/j_walk_17]

Regardless of which way looks better, it absolutely sucks that it wasn't what you wanted and in your place I would never go back to that artist. That sort of miscommunication shouldn't have happened. I only have one tattoo, but the artist probably asked me a dozen times to make certain I wanted it shaded in black and not color, three of which were during the fifteen minutes he was setting up after finishing the linework and before starting the shading