I mean, after months of planning, was the preliminary sketch even shown to your friends? I'd have hoped they would have told you then before it became permanent! Unless your artist didn't do a good job.

Since we don't know what it looks like I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt assume it looks fine. So in that case don't give a fuck what they think. It holds a special meaning for you and as long as you love it everyone else's opinion about it means Jack shit.

Sounds like that tattoo will be a source of permanent regerts.

I feel your pain. I have a tattoo that means a lot to me. It's a drawing that my BF made for me many years ago. It's his version of kind of an abstract/surrealist heart. My aunt insists on telling me it looks like a uterus and fallopian tubes every time she sees it. It hurts. You've said it a dozen times, now STFU!

Give it a few weeks to heal. If it still looks like turd, find a different artist to fix.

Advice for future tattoos and anyone looking to get one: never care what others think about your tattoo. You got it for you because it means something to you. Not them.

Let me see a pic of the tat. I’ll be the judge.