What would you do if you got a tattoo and the spelling was incorrect?

You have two options:
1. Cover it with a design.
2. Remove it.
In option #1, definitely use a better tattoo artist.

If the cursive L is a big loopy shape there isn’t a way to cross it that won’t look like a mistake was made originally.

Hayden Panettierre (cheerleader from the Heroes TV series) has an Italian phrase written down her left side which was misspelled so your friend isn’t alone.

I don’t see how it would be hard to put a little cross over the T, even if it’s in cursive.

I guess I would demand they fix it, or get it covered up. My wrist tattoos aren’t grammatically correct, but they don’t have to go together..so I can get away with it.

@casheroo: Yeah, that doesn’t seem too hard to me either, compared to some stuff I’ve seen.
What do your wrist tattoos say, if you don’t mind us asking?

I agree, as far as tattoo mistakes go, that one isn’t bad and is easily correctable. Which I would have done as soon as possible. If it was really messed up, though, I’d probably cover it with another design done by a better artist.

Still, the permanency and ability for this to happen are the two reasons, really, that I henna instead of tattoo.

@La_chica_gomela One says “pure” the other says “fate” in cyrillic. The “pure” is actually masculine, and the “fate” is feminine, so they wouldn’t be put together in a sentence. I didn’t know this until I was going through my first semester of Russian studies. But, I had asked my professor before I got the tattoo, she mustn’t have understood what I was asking since she could have corrected me. The problem gets pointed out to me usually when I go inside a gas station, because most people that work at them seem to speak and read Russian (lucky me)

oh god.. My 18th birthday I was oh so pumped that I was of age, me and a friend went and got some ink and I will tell you, I regret it pretty bad. I like mistakes because you can learn from them, but this one is permanent and not great.
I got a “vine” on my neck but I’ve had people say it looks like a corn plant & looks like it’s wilting. and it does. it sucks.
My friend definitely got the worst half though.. she got the word “vivre” behind her ear (luckily, not a noticable place) and it looked absolutely terrible… He was trying to hurry, which for one isn’t a good idea when you’re PERMANENTLY putting something on someone. You can’t really tell what it says, the letters are ugly and he accidentally wiped the stencil off and freehanded it. He charged her five dollars. (for the “wait”)
So basically we were pissed.. I still havent got around to getting my fixed ($$$) but the next time someone says something about it I’m making a damn appointment, apparently people dont understand that when you get a shitty tattoo you already are depressed about it and don’t need them telling you how ugly it is..

Push for a spelling reform and keep the tattoo. Maybe the spelling mistake is a result of the complex spelling rules of the English language. It’s tuff to learn it, let mee tell you.

@casheroo: Actually that sounds really cool! I wouldn’t let it bother me either. Like you said, they don’t have to go together. It sounds like a cool tat.

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At least the extra l sticks up like a t. Correcting would be harder with “g” or “q,” where the tail hangs down.

@mattbrowne: Telting us thal makes a good poinl. I’d never gel a lal, eilher.

don’t they make a temporary tattoo of the tattoo first that they show you and put on you, and then go over that with ink? I don’t see how you could let them spell it wrong this way if you showed a little attentiveness.

I’m with @casheroo on this one. I don’t see how it’s not hard to fix.
It might look a bit funky, but at least it will be spelled correctly.

I would be very annoyed with myself for not having spotted the mistake before giving my approval for it to be done.

Give your next tattoo artist a fifth grade spelling test. If he passes, let him ink you. If not, go somewhere else.

Tattoos are the same as a surgical procedure. If you’ll let Dr. Nick from the Simpsons take out your gall bladder, then having some twit with no professional tattoo license do your inking should be no problem. I only deal with professional tattoo artists. If you can’t afford to pay $100 an hour, you should NOT get a tattoo.

I would get another tattoo just underneath – “I got a cheap tattoo – this guy did it when he dropped out of primary school.”

It depends. Was it the artists fault or the person getting it?? The reason I ask is that I work in a Tattoo Shop, and we have had clients come in and want a name or something. We ask them to write out the spelling THEMSELVES then we go get a stencil made. You would be surprised how many dads dont know the correct spelling of their kids name.

This is why a good tattoo artist has you look in a mirror before starting. I don’t know many tattoo artists (and I know a lot) who freehand large script. It’s either done on paper and transfered or sketched with marker first.
Know your artist. Look at his work. Don’t pick the cheapest artist. You get what you pay for.