When a tattoo does not turn out as planned, it can be really devastating—especially because correcting it can be quite costly.
But it’s also disappointing when it’s a design you’ve been dreaming of for a long time.
Now, this woman’s tattoo mishap is making the rounds on TikTok.
Wilma Hägglund, hailing from Sweden, had her sights set on getting a tattoo on the inside of her lip—a popular trend known as ‘hidden ink.’
According to Glamour, one of the attractive features of this type of tattoo is that it supposedly fades more quickly than tattoos in other areas, typically lasting around five years.
The magazine further notes, “Kim Kardashian is not the first celeb to stick her lip out for a permanent marker – Miley Cyrus, Kendall Jenner, Kesha, and Madison Beer have all braved the tattoo parlor for some inner pout work.”
Tattoo artist Adam Claridge comments, “I’ve done quite a few now and they’re always fun to work on because you’d be surprised to see what people get tattooed there. It’s somewhere where the designs can be quite silly because they stay hidden away.”
However, for Hägglund, this trend in body modification took a wrong turn. She ended up with the word tattooed on the outside of her lip, leading to a distressing experience.
Hägglund expressed her frustrations on TikTok, stating: “He tattooed on the wrong place in my f***ing mouth.”
Many people went to the comments section, wondering how this mistake could happen.
One person asked: “Did she not feel him tattooing the wrong part of her lip?”
Another questioned: “How did you not know he was tattooing your actual lips instead of the inside?!”
Others were more supportive, offering Hägglund advice on how to deal with it.
“It’ll go away in a little bit. Tattoos don’t last very long on the lips,” one TikToker commented.
A second person added: “You’re lucky because tattoos on the lips fade away.”
“You are lucky these fade very quickly because the mouth is moist all the time,” someone else wrote.
In a follow-up post, Hägglund revealed that she had undergone her first laser treatment, and the tattoo had already started to fade.
In a third post, the TikToker displayed the progress of her face becoming ink-free.
Many people commented, saying they needed the full story on how the tattoo mistake happened. One person wrote: “I just wanna know why she got it!”
Another insisted: “Okay but we need a whole storytime.”
