A young Australian woman was left devastated after getting a $120 tattoo in Bali only for it to go “terribly wrong” thanks to a simple oversight by the tattoo artist.
The tearful 19-year-old influencer, Tia Kabir, said she went to the popular Indonesian island with the intention of getting her much-anticipated ‘Generation Z style tattoo’, but was left horrifiedover what she was left with.
“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…” the Canberra resident said in a subsequent TikTok video.
Speaking to Yahoo News Australia, Ms Kabir recalled how the bungle occurred at the tattoo parlour in Kuta.
“I printed out the stencil, they put it on my arm but because my arms are so small, they needed to make the stencil a bit smaller,” she said. “I looked at it after and assumed it would be fine while it was being done.
“Afterwards my partner looks at it and goes ‘yo, why does it say energy angel?’… I hysterically cried in front of them and asked how they are going to fix this?”
The tattoo artist initially tried to convince her it looked good, she told Yahoo, even offering to jazz it up a bit with a halo – a suggestion she thought was “ridiculous”.
Social media user react to tattoo mistake
Ms Kabir shared a tearful video about the unfortunate blunder on Sunday, which quickly garnered more than 2.2 millions views by the time of writing.
