You’re putting a lot of trust in the hands of a tattoo artist when you decide to get some ink done.

They’re literally stabbing a little permanent painting into your skin. Here’s hoping they know what they’re doing, and that the skills are really there.

Of course, competency isn’t the ONLY thing you might have a concern about…

Check it out.

AITA for getting mad my artist hid their initials in my tattoo?

I went to a tattoo shop in my area, with a photo of the tattoo I wanted.

It was one my dad had gotten to honor my passed grandfather who’s father also had it.

But the point is – it was important to me that the tattoo looked EXACTLY as it did in the photo.

So, they head over to a good shop.

I get to the shop, I explain everything, I pay, get the tattoo, and we’re done, I think it looks awesome, everything is great!

Until a few weeks later when I show my great grandmother the tattoo.

She’s static, grabs my arm to look at and compliment it, then asks, “Who’s AJ?”

And that’s when the penny dropped.

I ask her what she means, and she points out on the tattoo where the initials A and J or maybe T were hidden into the tattoo.

I’m instantly [angry], as my artists name is Alice Trever.

She tries to assure me it’s no big deal if I hadn’t noticed it til now, but I still reached out to the artist sort of irritated.

They told me the style of art I got is called traditional and it’s “pretty trad” for all artists who do that style to do it.

I demanded a partial refund and they refused, so I complained to the owner who made the artist give me a full refund.

But did they handle it well?

Now the artist is running a full smear campaign, talking about moving shops, and all kinds of crap.

My sister says I’m [a jerk] for pushing the issue, but I feel like, at the end of the day, I told you exactly what I wanted and you didn’t do that. AITA?

Let’s see what the comments say:

It’s a weird thing to do.

Does she even watch TV?

No, this is NOT normal.

I’d understand if the artist wanted to ask permission to leave a little signature.

I mean, I wouldn’t do that because if feels off-putting, but it would at least be ethical.

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