When looking to get a new tattoo, it's important that you research the exact design you want as well as the artist who will be drawing it, as you'll have to live with the finished result for life.
And as reported by the Daily Star, one woman has discovered the importance of proper research the hard way after they admitted they had failed to look into their tattoo artist before getting them to work on a piece on their collarbones - as they now hate the ink.
Ashley King posted on TikTok under the username @ashleeyking to share their disastrous tattoo story, where they revealed they had hoped to get spider webs inked above their collarbones, but the finished look wasn't anything like they'd expected.
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The woman - who uses both she/her and they/them pronouns - used audio from a similar TikTok video of someone mourning their nail art disaster, which said: "I'm literally crying over my nails right now, they're so ugly. This is what I wanted, okay? And this is what I got."
Ashley then showed a picture of another woman with the stylish cobweb tattoo that she had hoped to get herself, before showing the version she had received - which seemed to be a mess of zig-zag lines.
Their video has been viewed more than 4.2 million times, and commenters can't understand how their tattoo artist managed to get things so wrong - with some even comparing her ink to "fish gills".
One person said: "Oh my God, you've got gills."
While another added: "Well at least you can breathe underwater now."
And a third wrote: "It was so simple too? how did he get that far off track??? I'm so sorry."
Some commenters also asked if Ashley had seen the stencil that was used to create the tattoo, and she responded in a follow-up video to say the stencil actually looked better than the finished result.
In a comment on her own video, she said: "I saw the stencil and it had way fewer lines. For me, the stencil is just a base and the end result can look way more finished (I had hoped)."
And they then added in the clip: "If the linework was actually clean and he hadn't added 500 extra lines to the tattoo, I really would have liked it I think. Regardless you can see the lines are terrible, nothing's connecting, it looks scratchy to be honest."
Meanwhile, other people in the comments suggested Ashley get the tattoos covered up, and she revealed her plan is to turn the ink into a "blackout tattoo".
What do you think of her tattoos? Let us know in the comments below.
