@Hollie You are way close to Mike Moses at Cauldron https://www.instagram.com/thedrowntown/?hl=en and Chad Lenjer at Black Metal https://www.instagram.com/challenjer/ to not get work by these artistic giants.
Welcome! Bacanu looks quite capable from this instagram page. You should do quite good with him. Congrats!
You'll find several historical threads here that discuss text as tattoos. My take on it = find an event or memory that brings you to a favorite feeling about your family. Go for the images and drop the text. Tattoos don't have to be literal for the casual stranger.
The answer could be one of several possibilities. Was your Mom's earlier work by him done in the same style, or is the tattooist trying to learn new things? Has he developed a personal "habit" that inhibits production? Any number of factors could change how any "artist" performs.
I'd find someone new, myself. Where are you located?
It's way too early to tell. You'll have to wait 3-4 weeks before you really know what it's going to look like.
I'd be more concerned with how it already appears to be significantly lighter in just one week. That might change with healing, too. Hopefully the tattooist really got the ink down in there adequately . . .
I would, in the process of refreshing what you've already got, embelish and expand what is already there. You could join them in that process.
You would need to find the right artist for that endeavor, and we can help with that. Where do you live?
That doesn't particularly look like those spots relate to where white highlight ink would have been placed, at least from this vantage point here . . .
It certainly can be done, but you have to realize that:
a/ it'll just look like black panels, probably not like ribbons any more
b/ the black ink on the cover is going to be much blacker and look much newer on top of what is a well-settled in tattoo.
We're (New Orleans) supposed to find out tomorrow if the Governor is going to extend the May 16th deadline (or not), but tattoo shops aren't even on the phase 1 list for initial openings.