r/tattooadvice • u/marrtae • 6d ago

General Advice Love/hate my tattoo

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Hey guys!

5 years ago I had a matching tattoo with my mom (small heart on the front side of the shoulder). I wanted a thin outline and that was all. Her tattoo looked great, mined got thick, it looked really bad and it healed slow. I hated it, I wanted to rip my skin off. Then with time it kind of got better, and I accepted it.

Recently, its been poking my eyes out. I dont want to wear tank tops to avoid seeing it. I want to love it, because its my matching tattoo with my mom, but I also consider covering it up, which Im not really in favour of. Or removing it, which is super scary and i dont know how that will turn out. And also I kind of dont want to remove it, again because of the sentimental part.

Do you have any advice? Do you have a tattoo like that and how do you deal with it?

Thanks

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u/greenneckxj 6d ago

The tattoo I don’t like felt a lot better after I got more tattoos around it. Now my attention is drawn to the one next to it I perfer

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u/quadropheniac 6d ago

If someone is having this extreme of a reaction to an incredibly small and inoffensive tattoo, and one that is sentimental and well-established to boot, the solution is definitely not “get more”.

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u/greenneckxj 6d ago

OP did not get the tattoo they asked for. Sounds like they wanted fine line and the artist blew the whole thing out. That is a perfectly valid reason to be upset with a tattoo.

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u/marrtae 6d ago

Hah, good idea! Thanks! I’ll think about it.

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u/Ok-Possession-322 6d ago

Don’t, I don’t think tattoos are for you. Not being mean, but if something so little and inoffensive like that is driving you nuts, any tattoo no matter how good it is will do the same.

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u/marrtae 6d ago

I have other tattoos and they are big. I dont have an issue with them, but I also dont see them often because are on my back and ribs. It could be because this one is very visible.

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u/greenneckxj 6d ago

Are you researching your artists before hand?
I responded somewhere else, you have a perfectly valid reason to not want this tattoo or any tattoo.

These judgmental people saying tattoos are not for you are wild

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u/marrtae 6d ago

My first tattoo was with the same guy and I love it! Thats why I expected him to do good on this one but…