I’m being completely honest here – I haven’t picked anything. I guess there’s a chance that my shirts might have interfered with the healing but I would totally admit my own fault if I had been picking at it. I’d have no reason to – it hasn’t been itchy or bothersome at all.
The place was recommended to me by my cousin whose tattoo came out beautifully, but I found out that a different guy did his tattoo. I wasn’t really given an option as to who would be doing mine, the owner just kind of placed me with someone. The artist was really nice, she’s been tattooing for seven years, her other work looks great I thought she was wonderful and the tattoo looked fantastic when it was first done… now I’m not so sure… it does look so much worse in the photo than it does on my back right now though!
One thought I had was to go to my cousin’s brother-in-law – he is a pretty good tattoo artist, but we live kind of far and he is very busy with his tattooing and his night job, which are the reasons why I did not go to him in the first place. But, on second thought, I should not have to go to him and expect his charity because we know each other well. I should be able to go to the place at which I was tattooed and get the corrections done, yes?
I don’t know much about tattoo etiquette. The card I was given states that any missed spots will be gladly touched up, but that touch ups due to mis-care will not be done free of charge. How do they evaluate this “mis-care”? What if they just say I didn’t take care of it to make extra money? Can anyone tell me if it looks like I’ve been treating this badly? Maybe the fabric of my clothes??? Should I have left the bandage on longer? Use different soap? But surely the other tattoo artists (who have been doing this for many, many, many years) will have enough conscience not to rob me blind?
I just can’t understand. I did everything I was told.
But it really comforts me that it can be fixed. Thank you, Gsouder!
