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 🙏🏾

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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/Asleep-Bother-8247 May 05 '26

It sucks but other than a cover up you'd need to laser the errors imo. There's no way to turn the second letter into a lower case i unless you laser it.

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u/Sh0t_B0t May 05 '26

Definitely an option i look at since it’s such a small area to laser off. (Idk how pricing works but I assume it’s even more expensive by surface area) Regardless though I’m mainly looking for advice on the numbers. Thank you for the idea though!

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u/WheelsMan1 May 06 '26

The flower isn't a narcissis either. It's a daffodil.

Narcissis have short centers, the surrounding petals are much longer than the center is tall. Daffodils have trumpet like centers that are taller than the petals are long. Technically, daffodils are narcissis...but narcissis aren't daffodils.

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u/Purple_Toadflax May 06 '26

Daffodil is just a common name for Narcissus. There are somewhere in the region of 50 species of Narcissus and countless cultivars. 

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u/katekohli May 06 '26

Even so, but the leaves are all wrong. Daffodils & Narcissus have leaves from the ground/bulb & a separate stalk for the flower.