I’m a tattoo artist and I regret loads of my own inkings – my chest art gets dirty comments & the zombie is just weird
WHETHER it’s a short fringe or a questionable choice of eyeshadow, most of us have made choices we now regret doing.
Ink pro Sydney Mulvaney, from Michigan, the USA, is no exception, with her body ornamented in a number of tattoos she doesn’t like as much as she thought she would.
The ink guru – who first made headlines after admitting she gave a client the wrong design – recently took to TikTok to share a list of tattoos she disliked so much, she was considering covering them up.
One of the artworks she regretted having done, the video revealed, included a side profile a woman on her arm, featuring a detailed line work, as well as some colour.
Although the piece itself was impressive, Sydney reckoned that no matter which angle you were looking from, the lady appeared ”bloated in her face”.
Right below the bloated woman, who appeared to be inspired by the pin-up style of the 40s, was also the second inking that had made it on the list.
This was a piece of candy corn, which Sydney had designed herself, now admitting it looked ”s**t”, upon reflection.
”It’s a skull. It’s supposed to be a candy corn skull but it just looks like a triangle,” the USA-based whizz concluded, criticising her artwork.
Another inking that she mentioned in the now-viral video was the pin-straight red line right in-between her chest, which she had hoped would turn out more on the orange side.
But although she loves this inking, Sydney revealed that it does get quite a bit of inappropriate comments.
”Everyone always asks ‘How far down does that go?’
”I’m like ‘Excuse me, that’s dirty’.”
However, the red-head stunner had left ”the weirdest” of them all as a treat – a famous celebrity… tattooed as a zombie.
Sydney got the inking when Miley Cyrus launched her Bangerz album in 2013, which included huge hits such as We Can’t Stop and Wrecking Ball, widely speculated to address her public breakup with Liam Hemsworth.
As at the time Sydney was a huge ”anti-fan” and pretended ”not to like her”, she decided to take what she reckoned would be a more ”edgy” approach.
”Let’s get Miley Cyrus as a zombie,” Sydney said, showing off the inking in total silence and without making a single comment.
The ink-redible ancient history of body art
Scientists have discovered the world's oldest tattoos on the arm of a 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummy on display at the British Museum.
The mummy, known as Gebelein Man A, pushes back evidence of figurative tattoos by 1,000 years.
The oldest tattoos were once thought to belong to a South American Chinchorro mummy who had a moustache-like design inked on his face.
It was initially thought he died in 4,000BC but in 2015 researchers found he is in fact younger than 5,200-year-old frozen mummy Ötzi the Iceman.
Ötzi was found by walkers preserved in a glacier on the Italy-Austria border in 1991.
Imaging using various wavelengths revealed a total of 61 tattoos: Geometric designs of dots, crosses and parallel lines.
Ötzi would have done lots of walking im the Alps and it is thought the tattoos may have been a kind of acupuncture to ease joint pains.
There is evidence of tattooing on mummies found in the Taklamakan Desert in China dating from 1,200 BC.
Modern tattoos of the kind sported by David Beckham are thought to have developed in Polynesian cultures over centuries.
The name comes from the phrase tatatau, meaning to hit or strike, which the British sailor James Cook heard when he reached Tahiti in 1769.
The zombie version of the famous popstar featured missing flesh around Miley’s mouth, rotten teeth, as well as redness around her eyes and scaring all over the face.
”1 like and I’ll cover them up,” the ink lover chuckled in the caption.
Just as horrified and gobsmacked by the designs, close to 1,800 people flocked to comments to share their thoughts.
”The Miley gave me a jump scare,” wrote one person.
Another was in hysterics, writing: ”The silence on zombie Miley, LMAO it needed no explanation.”
”Genuinely, why 
any of these ,” a third was baffled.
”The Miley one is so bad I wouldn’t even regret it it’s AWESOME,” someone else chimed in.
