A PARTIALLY INKED mum says her tattoo was so bad she stopped the artist midway – leaving her with a headless portrait on her arm.
Now she thinks her tattoo looks “horrible” and wants to take care of it, but in the meantime it makes her family laugh.
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Sara Barner, 35, ordered a portrait of her aunt and uncle Janice and Norman Gudger – along with her daughter’s name – to honor how much they did to help her when she was a child.
She went to a cheap tattoo artist who lived at home, but began to have doubts when she saw him falling asleep, she claims.
And 30 minutes after getting tattooed she told him to stop when she “noticed my aunt looked like a monkey”.
The youth counselor was left with a half-finished tattoo – her uncle was headless and only half finished.
“His art looked good. I had seen some portraits,” said the mother of five from Greeneville, Tennessee.
“I had seen good works of art. He had gotten his own tattoos and they looked good.
“I didn’t notice anything at first, but after two hours of the process, his eyes were closing.
“I’m thinking, ‘Maybe he’s sleeping,’ so I let him go for another 30 to 45 minutes and I looked up and he was dozing off.
“I noticed that my aunt looked like a monkey and my uncle was headless and wearing half a tuxedo.
“I said, ‘We’re done.’
“My family thinks it’s the funniest thing ever. They laugh about it.
“My 31-year-old niece also called him a monkey.
“I laugh too. There’s nothing I can answer. It is what it is until I take care of it.
Sara decided to get the tattoo when her uncle Norman died in November 2019.
I tried turning my arm around in public so no one could look at it.
Sara Barner
“I spent most of my childhood at his house,” she said.
“They did a lot for me. When my uncle died, it crushed me.
“I wanted to have something where I could always look at it.”
Her fiance’s brother suggested a “cheap” tattoo artist she could use.
Sara was paid $100 for the inking she did in May 2020 — but refused to pay the full price and gave the artist $60.
“After she started looking like a monkey, I was like, ‘Oh, shit, isn’t this a way to honor my uncle and aunt,’” she said.
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“So I thought, no way.”
At first, she was embarrassed by the “horrible” paint.
“I tried to turn my arm around in public so no one could look at it,” she said.
Her fiancé, Michael, 32, said she “shouldn’t have done that”.
“He thinks it’s horrible,” she said.
And when retired factory worker Janice, 78, saw the tattoo, she wasn’t impressed at all.
“I talked to my aunt two weeks after I finished and put my hand on his arm,” she said.
“She told me, ‘Don’t get any more tattoos.’ She thinks it’s unfinished.
Sara tried to cover it in flowers in May 2022 with a homemade tattoo kit, but it didn’t work.
“You can still see half the monkey when you look at it,” she said.
Now, she plans to have a professional take care of the matter, but only when she has time.
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