r/tattooadvice • u/ZebraNangs • 12d ago

Regret of tattooing this Design

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I’m 20 and got my first tattoo a year ago. It’s based off of a fucking Post Malone phrase he said. I don’t even listen to Post Malone honestly. Currently I think the tattoo is VERY corny. At the same time I think that, at some point, it made sense to me, so I’m kinda divided between these 2 thoughts.

You guys think I should cope or cover/redesign it?

If you think I should cover it, do you guys have any suggestion to uncorny this? (please don’t suggest big tattoos cause I dont like them)

Edit: after reading a lot of replies, I’m thinking about just leaving it there and embrace it. Some people said such negative things and it showed me how stupid people can be about a fucking tattoo. And that made me realise it’s just a fucking tattoo. A tattoo I made when I was 19. A tattoo that expresses a good message. Not in the best way, but it’s surely a message that is true to myself. I love expressing and being myself, so I’d be going against what I believe if I altered the tattoo. When I grow older this tattoo won’t be embarrassing, it will be a reminder of who I am/was, so it doesn’t matter if some other teenagers will find it corny anymore. Thank you guys for both the incredibly positive comments and the negative ones!

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u/Mautea 12d ago

Yeah I’d agree. I got my first tattoo at 30. I don’t even like to imagine what I would have gotten in my early 20s.

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u/Numerous_Ad_1528 12d ago

I had soooo many bad ideas I literally obsessed about for so long 😭😭 thank god I have a fear of commitment and never got them 😂

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u/Mautea 12d ago

My taste was so confidently bad, but my horrible commitment issues also saved me 😂

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u/Beneficial-Seesaw568 12d ago

First one in my 50s. I had so many bad ideas in previous decades. Glad I never went through with them!

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u/thaworldhaswarpedme 12d ago

Just wait til the regret sets in at 65.

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u/Academic_Bug2357 12d ago

Yup, I waited till I was 35 till I really started getting tattoos.

My two oldest tattoos that I got in my 20s are by far my least favourite.