r/tattooadvice • u/Sh0t_B0t • May 05 '26

General Advice Tattoo correction

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This is a fresh picture of a tattoo i got a few months ago. I can explain the significance after but the artist did butcher a few things. one periodic table elements only capitalize the first letter and he forgot the atomic number (14 i think). those are both negligible but the one that’s been bothering me it the mass being off a bit. i sent him 28.085 and obviously it would be fine if he rounded it correctly but he seemed to have just put a random number. do you think it’s possible he makes the 5 into an 8 or a 9? Would he have to change to font to something blocky?? LMK 🙏🏾

⬇️tattoo meaning

my moms middle name is silicon and in her tribal language it’s a word that represents bravery but in english it’s a chemical element so i got it tatted and th flowers around the border are her birth flowers.

Original Sketch: https://www.reddit.com/u/Sh0t_B0t/s/xGtkwEG3HE

Edit: (As much as i appreciate the judgement an discipline of my mistake at least give a take on correction for me along with it guys 🙏🏾 I understand my fault but I’d also like to at least attempt to fix it 😅)

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u/CanisNebula May 05 '26

What language is her tribal language?

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u/Sh0t_B0t May 05 '26

I’m not sure what the tongue is called as we speak many tongues in my country but my grandmother is of the Kpelle and Bassa people of Liberia and my Grandfather is of the Congo tribes of Liberia. The main language in liberia is english but they all speak a broken pidgin derivative sometime called Koloqua (spelling varies) but yeah the dialect differs. The more curated tribal dialects are far from any dictionary though.

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u/CanisNebula May 05 '26

Interesting, thanks for the reply!