A 35-year-old woman was left 'frustrated' after getting a DIY heart ink that looked quite phallic and resulted in her going to hospital after the tattoo became infected.
A woman has discovered that you can't mix booze into a £50 tattoo kit sold on Amazon. This is the hard way…
Natalie Rene tried out the inexpensive DIY product with friends after a few drinks, but ended up in the hospital with an infection three days later. The 35-year-old has since gone undercover six times because her heart and arrow tattoo looked like a “hairy penis”.
The law student has learned her lesson and will never trust a drunken friend to tattoo her again, unless they're looking for a phallic-inspired piece of art. ..
“The tattoo was supposed to depict a love heart with an arrow, but the scar was so deep that it looked like a hairy penis,” she said. “That same friend gave me a few more things that night: a weird spiral thing with an R on my leg, a love heart on my hand, another arrow on my foot, and a semicolon on my wrist. did.”
After three years of enduring smudged ink, René decided to have his phallus-shaped tattoo removed and shelled out an eye-watering £1,350 to cover up some of the bad design. . She also has no contact with her former friend, an amateur tattooist…
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“As soon as I woke up in the morning, I thought, 'This is not what I imagined.' I was drunk when I had the procedure done, and then reality set in,” she added. “My family was very angry and told me I was stupid and that I should stop doing that.
“I was upset about it, but I take responsibility. After the surgery, I went to the hospital to get blood. My other arm never gave blood. So when they found the tattoo, I had to roll up my sleeves and say I'm sorry.''' Rene, from Loughborough, said she had to go to nursing care because her arrow scar “looked like a penis.” His mentors said they “giggled'' when they saw the tattoo.
Despite the nightmare situation, Rene hasn't thrown away her DIY tattoo kit in the box yet, but she's resisting the temptation to self-ink again. “It's the stupidest thing, but it's the easiest thing to get. Even kids as young as 11 or 12 can buy it,” she said. “I don't know what made me get them. I wanted a time machine.”
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