Tattoo Fixers

[Khamelion]

Anyone else watch this? Basic synopsis is three really good tattoo artists provide a free (I think) service to cover up crap tattoo that people have had done. The usual drunken stuff people get inked on to themselves while on holiday with their mates.

Anyway on last nights show an ex marine wanted a tattoo doing and he proceeded to tell his story. He is a big Liverpool fan and wanted something to show his support for Liverpool FC, so he got the Liver Bird on his leg with the words you'll never walk alone underneath. At 17 he joined the Marines and in time he did his tours in Iraq, where sadly he got blown up by an IED.

He under went many ops to sort his leg, but in the end decided to have it amputated, when he came to after the op, the doctor told him there was good news and bad news, he asked for the good news first and the doctor told him the op had been a success, so then he asked for the bad and the doctor told him his Liver bird tattoo wasn't quite the same.

During the op, the doctor had removed part of the wording from underneath his Liver bird and now it just said, "You'll never walk"

He saw the funny side of it, but was determined to prove anything was possible, he was fitted with a prosthetic and later on competed in the first invictus games where he won two gold medals.

After explaining all this to the Tattoo artists he told them of the piece he wanted doing and they made an exception as he didn't want the Liver bird covered, instead he wanted the last two lines of the poem Invictus;

I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul

[video]http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tattoo-fixers/videos/all/s1-ep3-youll-never-walk[/video]

Just made me think about the money we raise on the H4H days and just how lucky those of us that have not served in the armed forces really are.

 

[Tashyboy]

Ave seen the programme and spend the rest of the evening with whiplash, shaking my head at the amount of "nutters" there are out there.
thoroughly understand the reasons behind having some tattoos removed but some tattoos are just horrendous.
one of the lads at work has his name down his calf (RICHARD).
except it looks like RICBARD. Which is now his nickname.

 

[matt71]

love the show not seen the last one yet, the guy last week who had random sayings on his body was a loon. I do worry for some of these people

 

[Rooter]

Great story from the OP there. Inspiring!

However there is a dad at my kids school who has Shrek on one calf and Lord Farquaad on the other.. Not plucked up the courage to ask him WTF he was thinking...

 

[Khamelion]

Yes indeed there are some loons, The guy who wanted the Deirdre Barlow portrait on his leg and it wasn't a small piece either. Some of the cover ups are because the original pieces were done by someone with a distinct lack of talent, others are because the owner thought they would be funny and now regret them. Like the guy who lost a bet with a barmaid and had a smiley face drawing around his nipple, so that the nipple was the nose, two dots for the eyes and the curved line for the mouth. The lass on the show did a snow leopard for the cover up, a large chest piece which was superb.

 

[Tashyboy]

Watching tonight's show, and come to the opinion that the show is full of village idiots.

one woman had a tampon and some ants drawn on her leg, coz her pal threw a tampon and in the morning some ants were " around it".

one guy had C*+t on one butt cheek and T*+t on the other for his girlfriend and her mum.

another has the words Tiny written just above his pubic line with an arrow pointing to his pecker.

I am not even to sure that some of the tattoos when fixed look much better.

 

[srixon 1]

I was in the navy for 22 years. Never had a tatt myself, (just don't see the point of them) but during those 22 years I saw some proper howlers.

 

[Ross61]

I saw a similar type programme last year called "body shockers"
One guy had a large "Henry Hoover" tattoo with his pecker as the hose. How mad/drunk do you have to be to have that done?

 

[bladeplayer]

Ive watched a good few of these ,some of the tats are nuts , alot of the cover ups are massive tho , some nearly as bad as the originals

 

[Tashyboy]

Ive watched a good few of these ,some of the tats are nuts , alot of the cover ups are massive tho , some nearly as bad as the originals

Which is exactly what Missis T said 😟

 

[srixon 1]

On one of the ship's I served on, a chap had a large 'W' tattooed on each bum cheek. When he bent over he reckoned that it spelled 'WoW'

 

[patricks148]

I have seen it a couple of times and what struck me was when someone came in with ....what I would say was a tiny little tat you would hardly notice and could ,on many occasions been just lasered of....was "fixed" by putty something 20 times the originals size over that.

 

[User62651]

I dont have any tatts but quite like the show, for me the 3 tattooists are good but they kind of repeat the same cover ups over and over - with some flowery design from the girl or animals from the boys. Have never seen any of them do mechanical style under skin tatts or celtic tribal knots or lines etc. Need some more variety in their designs imo or get someone new in.

Agree they turn tiny mistake tatts into gigantic new tatts, assume the 'client' gets a say of course.