MakaveliX

What about filling all the letters in black, and then doing a design over it in white or something ( like a " blackout " ) ? OR would that need a laser too ? Something like this

That's a bit harsh dude. I'm sure most people in my situation would be seeking answers and solutions

Confused as to what you mean ? I wonder if it's possible for the laser removal treatment just to focus on parts of the "M" which are too narrow. Therefore making it more readable ?

Research such as ? I checked the artists social media and their work looked good.

Perhaps that suggests it takes years if you want to get it removed as much as you can without then having a cover up. So I suppose as you guys say, get it removed as much as possible then speak to a good artist regarding a cover up.

Did some research and removal can take years. And a serious amount of money

When you say " area of concern " do you mean the whole tattoo ?

Is it a given that i'd need laser removal or could it be possible for a decent artist to work with it ?

Also where did you find the design ?

Are you sticking with black or are you getting colours ?

Looks good dude

Well yeah but I thought he would make sure it was readable and wouldn't mess up the negative space on on the letters

Who's to blame though, me, them or both of us ?

Yeah it was a bad choice of tattoo, however personally I like it except for the " M " As said earlier the artist should have straight up been honest and said that 1. They are inexperienced and don't specialise in negative space text. and 2. That the design I showed him wouldn't work well. My usual artist has over 20 yrs experience and is awesome. I thought i'd try somewhere different and he'd only been doing tattoos 2 years and is now a regret that I didn't go to my usual studio

That looks awesome. It will fade over time as others have said

Yeah I understand. All I can do is avoid that artist in future then. All of my other tattoos i'm 100% happy with.

OK so a skin colour line in the M wouldn't work at all ?😞 If it wasn't for the M i'd be happy with it. I'll leave it for now then. Thanks for the advice, I won't be going back to that artist again.

Ya thought so. My idea was something like this which I quickly made on paint lol, before considering laser removal and then a cover up as that's gonna be really time consuming and cost a lot of money... You guys said it wouldn't help so I may as well just leave it. I did speak to a decent artist and they said doing a coverup on that would be very difficult. Once I have some transport I can venture a bit further and find someone who could do a complete cover up or just incorporate it into a different design.

The thought of having to pay a large amount of money for removal is pretty grim. As I said i'll leave it for now and consider it in the future

OK thanks! There is a place that specialises in laser removal down the road so when I get a chance in the future i'll consider that. I'll keep it as it as at the moment as i'm happier with it now. The edges are supposed to be spikey by the way. In my opinion it's just the " M " which lets it down, otherwise i'd be content with it. I do look at the M and think, how the hell did he manage to cock that up. I've shown a decent artist and they also agreed that guy I got the tattoo from did a terrible job. And yes I know a very good artist round here so i'll speak to them about a cover-up in future Thanks

Been 8 days now and this is how it turned out.. I won't be going back to that artist ever again. Suppose I could have a cover up in a year or so when the lines start to blur.

Yeah same here

Makes sense. Partially my fault for not researching the artist first as they specialise in traditional, not text. The first one they did came out ok, it's just the second one which is really bothering me. I'll post a pic when it's finished scabbing

I will dude i'm learning to like the tattoo now. Any idea why the black ink I got from the artist wasn't as black as other tattoos i've had ?