An influencer has been left in tears after she flew to Bali to get her "dream tattoo" and it all went wrong.
Getting a tattoo is a big commitment that usually requires some pre-thought into the design that you want to have permanently on your body.
Being lectured about a tattoo having to have "meaning" is boring, because a cool piece of art is justification enough - but that doesn't mean that it's something that should be taken lightly.
So when getting a "dream" tattoo, it's best to triple check the design is correct as well as the placement on your body is where you'd like it.
One unfortunate influencer flew all the way to Bali to get what she dubbed her "dream tattoo" but things quickly took a turn for the worse.
Taking to TikTok, Tia Kabir revealed that she wanted her tattoo to read "angel energy", but it somehow ended up reading "energy angel".
"So I came to Bali to get a tattoo, right, and I’ve been dreaming to get this tattoo because I just don’t get tattoos all the time," Tia said in the video.
"I get one every few months, and it’s supposed to say Angel Energy, and now it just says Energy Angel," she said while wiping away tears.
It's safe to say that some people weren't overly sympathetic towards the influencer, as one person wrote: "Surely you would have seen the stencil before he started."
A second said: "That's why you look at placement and stencil before you let them near you with the ink and needles."
A third penned: "Just tattoo Angel above Energy and get a decent artist to create something out of the Angel."
Clarifying how the unfortunate mistake unfolded, Tia told News.com.au: "I had a piece of paper that said ‘Angel Energy’ but it was a little too big on the arm after they put the stencil on.
"So after they made it a tiny bit smaller, somehow it flipped around saying ‘Energy Angel’ but I didn’t notice. It was only after it was done that I checked it. It put me into shock."
The tattoo is definitely fixable - but it goes to show that everything should be triple-checked before making it permanent.
