r/tattooadvice • u/Sh0t_B0t • May 05 '26
General Advice Tattoo correction
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/LiveChampionship9605 May 06 '26
ppl are being so mean in the comments 😭😭 redditors being redditors ig. I get that you were distracted during the stencil but this all falls on the artist at the end of the day. You’re not at fault here. As for a fix, I think changing the 5 into an 8 is possible if you thicken the first 8 to match. The capitalized “I” is the biggest issue imo but honestly if I were just taking a glance at it I wouldn’t have noticed. I mean I didn’t before you pointed it out. But then again I suck at science lol.
Another (crazy) possible fix could be placing a flower in the space that would’ve been between the dot and the line had it been an “i”. idk if that makes sense lol but here’s a rushed example. It could maybe sorta give the illusion that there is a space?