TikToker hysterical after tattoo artist’s ‘botched’ design

A TikToker who wanted a simple floral tattoo on her back was left mortified after the artist made a critical mistake.

A devastated TikToker is in hysterics after claiming a tattoo artist didn’t give her the design she wanted.

The woman filmed herself crying on TikTok after returning from a tattoo session for a floral outline on her back.

“The butterfly looks like it was out of a cartoon book, a colouring book,” she exclaimed in a teary video that has drawn 1.3 million views since it was posted Thursday, The New York Post reports.

The unidentified TikToker shared her tattoo horror story online. Picture: TikTok/@user8171938461618394

“When your tattoo is nothing like you asked for and it’s huge,” she said.

She claimed the “flowers are so big” and looks “nothing like the picture” she showed the unnamed tattoo artist.

“I’m literally stuck with this f – king thing for the rest of my life,” she wails between sobs.

In subsequent videos posted to TikTok, the woman claimed she had been to the artist

twice before.

She said this time, she showed him a photo from Instagram of what she wanted – a tattoo of dainty flowers and a butterfly climbing up the right side of her back.

She originally wanted dainty flowers on her back. Picture: TikTok/@user8171938461618394

While he reportedly showed her a photo of the stencil — since she couldn’t see her own back — he said he needed to “make it my own,” deviating from the original design.

“I cried the whole way home, it was like a 40-minute drive,” she continued, showing a photo of the tattoo she received.

The ink actually looked pretty similar to the original photo, perhaps just with some darker line work.

“I was dramatic,” she admitted.

Users in the comments complimented the design, telling her that shading might make her feel differently.

She said the final tattoo ‘wasn’t what I wanted’. Picture: TikTok/@user8171938461618394

“It’s just not what I wanted,” she said, while also admitting it’s her fault for not scrutinising the artist’s sketch more.

“It’s not as bad as what I thought, but when you have expectations for something, you’re going to be upset about it, and that’s why I was crying.”

Commenters slammed the TikToker for approving the sketchy stencil before having it inked onto her skin.

“I don’t get how people get bad tattoos like they literally do a stencil and ask you if you like it?” one user said.

“Happens to us all. Sometimes they don’t stick to the stencil,” declared another user.

This story originally appeared on The New York Post and was reproduced with permission.

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