Entitled Karen enrages tattoo artist by demanding free £400 ink after break-up
A tattoo artist slammed an 'entitled Karen' who asked for a free cover up.
David McKinlay didn't think anything of it when he received a Facebook request from a woman, known only as Jane, for him to cover an unwanted design on April 21.
The 46-year-old shared screenshots online showing the woman explaining how she and her ex-husband had gotten tattoos of both their names, the date of their wedding and a heart one week after their big day in 2011.
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But now that they had separated she understandably wanted to get rid of it – so David gave her a quote for the cost of covering it up.
However, the woman seemed flabbergasted by the fact that she would have to pay for it as she asked: "What do you mean?"
She bluntly argued that since he did the original tattoo and they were no longer together "then it should be free to replace the original".
The no-nonsense owner of Archangel 1608 studio in Glasgow, Scotland, was left stunned at the request and hit back asking "why the f*** would it be free?"
He also explained: "It's not on me to amend the tattoo at my own cost".
However, Jane still didn't understand the explanation.
She demanded she be given a free inking of her mum's portrait to replace the tattoo she's "no longer happy with".
She then brazenly asked: "Does customer satisfaction mean anything to you?"
David was left fuming by her attitude and branded her "rude, arrogant and entitled" – refusing to help her.
To which, Jane told him he can "shove [the tattoo] up his a*se in that case".
Speaking out about the incident, the father of two said: "For a tattoo, she's not had an issue with for 12 years old, them breaking up isn't a reason for me to cover it up for free.
"A third of the tattoos we do are cover-ups or reworks so I just treated it like a normal enquiry until the price was mentioned.
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"She got a bit nippy but I thought I'd misunderstood her so I gave her the benefit of the doubt. When she said it should be free I thought she was winding me up.
"As the messages went on she got more aggressive and I realised it's just an entitled person who was ultimately wasting our time. That's when I got a bit sweary. She thought she was such a special person that I'd remember doing her tattoo.
"If we do a tattoo and it doesn't heal well or a customer doesn't like it we'll do our best to rectify it – sometimes at our own cost and sometimes for an additional charge."
The dad-of-two says the price of cover-ups start at £100 but price of portraits start at around £400 – so she would have been demanding an expensive piece for free.
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