Would I be wasting my time reporting a tattoo artist

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1. You’d be better going to a solicitor and seeing if you have a case here.

2. I think you’d be better contacting Environmental Health or whoever licenses tattoo shops where you are.

3. Rude and unprofessional is part of life and not a lot you can do about that.

   I’ve never had a tattoo so sorry if this is a stupid question and anyone, please fill me in. As for the swelling and infection, is that a risk of tattoos? And can that happen from poor after care? What negligence would he have had to have done to result in that injury? Did you sign anything before he started? If so, what did it say about risks? I am not a lawyer either, but what defense would he have if he was in small claims?

4. Idk legally how safe this is but please let people you trust know. I had a lovely guy do my leg and I’d never complain but at the end of the day it took an extra hour than it should have and flared up instantly, leading to me sleeping 20 hours lmao. There’s a reason nobody is going to the shop he works at.

5. Warn people to avoid that artist for a start.

6. Did you visit your GP, or hospital that has a record of the infection ? Did they take a sample to test what type of infection it was and it was the tattoo was the direct cause? Also photos ? Most infection comes from u safe and unsanitary practices.

   Take it to all to environmental health, report it to the tattoo safe register and get advice off a solicitor.

7. The worry would be if you signed a form with an included liability waiver

   Then you’d need to prove you followed aftercare instructions perfectly

   You’d be best reaching out to the original artist to see what their advice etc is and go from there

8. Who is it ffs, so we can avoid him

9. https://preview.redd.it/qx4pbpeslc4f1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=d2cabd59d84a77a185f6e4cf8d243950c0709a45

   This is it after about 3 weeks and a course of antibiotics

10. I got a tattoo recently, and my leg swelled up like crazy. I couldn’t walk for a week. It was absolutely horrific. However, there was no infection or puss. 

    I think it was just a bad reaction, no the artists fault. 

    And then oddly enough I got another about a month after, and it was the least painful tattoo I’ve ever had. The healing was a breeze. 

11. I understand that you signed the waiver for your tattoo, which covers your potential for regret, and that you consented to the tattoo, you are aware it is permanent etc.

    You did not sign a waiver to be tattooed with faulty equipment, you did not sign a waiver to get an awful infection from an inexperienced and incompetent ‘artist’.

    I had a look through your Nextdoor comments and in the Reddit post you say the same, that you have no legal standpoint.

    You did not consent to be treated this way. If you don’t want to invest in a solicitor then take it up with small claims court. But I would say this is not a small claim. You and any other potential client are in danger of hazardous infections from a tattooist that claims to be a reputable artist.

    If you took legal action you could somewhat help yourself and definitely help and eliminate any other possible clients from suffering the same.

    I am so sorry it turned out this way. I respect your matter of dealing with things, if someone did this to my skin I would have probably killed them with the equipment and trashed their entire store. Kudos to you

12. Deans always been very heavy handed and even his really great pieces with saturation always seem to be really scarred. This looks like his worst day. Shows you that award winning artist means absolutely fuck all too. I think a solicitor is your only recourse on this

13. I would report it to anyone who will listen and deffo try to take to small claims if you can. Do report to environmental health even if you don’t think it will do much. You can die from a bad infection after a tattoo.

14. Good luck if you decide to take action, but I really don’t fancy your chances. If I can play Devils Advocate for a second, you can’t prove the infection came from the shop or equipment without evidence, most of which will (hopefully!) be destroyed now. Being unable to walk home on it isn’t necessarily due to infection. I had a 7 hour session on the back of my calf, ankle and knee and I couldn’t walk afterwards either. The artist in question had immaculate hygiene and cross-contamination protections so there was no infection. Instead it was basically trauma due to sustained tattooing. Who’s to say yours wasn’t the same? Even if you took all care of the tattoo afterwards, can you say for sure that it wasn’t exposed in the days or hours after the work was done?

15. Citizen Advice? (think they’re called ‘community advice’ now.)

16. Nightmare Dude. I’m a tattoo artist working in Belfast also and I’ve never once had a client get an infection in the 8 years I’ve been tattooing people. It almost looks like where he put the red shading is where it got infected, as though you are allergic to whatever red ink he used. The soft redness that he put on the cheek and in the top part is where most of the red ink was. Just seems coincidental that the infected parts are where the red ink was put in. I only ever use Eternal inks but different artists use different brands and if they used a cheap one off Amazon that was made in China then it’ll definitely cause an infection. I always tell my clients to just leave the wrap on for an hour then give it a wash with just luke warm water on a paper towel when they take the wrap off, and then put Palmers Cocoa Butter on it twice a day for about a week just. The most important thing though I tell them to wrap it within fresh clingfilm that first night that they go to bed because the tattoo is an open wound that first day and will close during their first sleep, that’s why lots of ink comes out the first night as during sleep the immune system focuses on closing the wound. Things like dog fur or cat fur in a bed can be a main source of infection that first night if it’s not wrapped with clingfilm, as some fur can come from under their tail or around their ass area, which is the last bit of animal fur you’d ever want sitting on an open wound all night. I’ve heard other artists talk about people getting reactions to red ink and some dark greens, but red ink is always the one they mention most. If the artist overworked it then it would be in places where he packed the ink the most, but the infected parts on your tattoo look like where the ink was almost shaded in to give a lighter tone. I think if it was his soaps or technique then the whole thing would be infected, so that’s why I think it a reaction to a particular tone of red ink; or a dog’s nose has touched it or animal fur has got on it that first night if it wasn’t wrapped properly.

17. I tend to avoid the Albert bridge road for everything in my life.

18. Did you go to your Doctor to get this documented?

    NO?

    Then you haven’t a “leg” to stand on

19. Good lad for naming….. I’ll be avoiding this clown.

20. Name and Shane to avoid really hope you heal uo and doesn’t turn out shite

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