To point out a spelling mistake on a brand-new tattoo?

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Someone I used to work with has posted a picture of their new tattoo. I haven't really been following them much recently but I guess that tragically they must have had a recent loss as the tattoo refers to an angel baby who was too beautiful for earth. However it has been spelt "angle baby, to beautiful for this world"...I am totally stuck on this one. The person is totally in love with the tattoo and is oblivious to anything being wrong, as are their friends who are commenting. If it were not such a meaningful tattoo then I probably would quietly send a tactful message to point it out in case something can be done quickly. But I feel awful saying anything that could be seen as criticism of a tattoo relating to such an emotive subject. WIBU to say anything or would you leave it?
WWYD?

I'm sure that's the legal stance but I'd argue the tattoo artist has a duty of care as a human being in this case (assuming they knew, which I'm sure they did)

One of my friends was really chuffed with her new tattoo and had the pics on fb, complete with 2 glaringly obvious spelling mistakes which nobody seemed to be picking up on, or if they did then they didn't bother mentioning it. So I messaged her relative who I am closer to and the relative pointed it out quietly to her. Picture removed and then replaced a few days later with the correction. You can totally see where the errors where corrected. It was a beautiful tattoo too which was a shame because now when I see it (prominent area) I just see where the mistakes were fixed.

Oh dear me. I wouldn't want to be the person who breaks the news to the poor lady. How did the tattoo artist not notice it at the time??

They probably already have a inbox full of ' 'sorry for your loss but....'

Leave it. They will already know.

Leave it to someone closer.

You could say "What acute tattoo."

friend of mine has got "your a long time dead" tattooed. presumably someone told her as she covers it up but everyone knows about it.

the messenger gets shot. plus it's such a sensitive tattoo (i.e. her baby). i ranted at a local shop the other day as their signs said "there chips" "savaloy" and "potatoe". and they totally didn't thank me for it!!!!!!!!

Surely your a long time dead could be fixed. Even if the e had to be a bit squished.

You could say "What acute tattoo."

That's rather an oblique comment, however.

Only if the person was a very close friend, otherwise, no.

In a similar vein though, bil passed away a little while before I met DH. We went to tend to his grave one day and I was mortified because there was a spelling mistake on the grave stone. Along the lines of "Rest in Piece". I did an impression of a gaping goldfish for a while before I had to say something quietly to DH.

Worse still, other bil has a tattoo of the grave, along with spelling mistake. I kept my mouth shut when I spotted that. It wouldn't have been received well.

I wouldn't be putting the whole blame on the tattooist; the person getting the colleague here probably saw the stencil before ok'ing it, then presumably saw it in the mirror after it was done, then took a pic and probably looked at it on their phone and still didn't catch on.

But it's the tattooist's job to get the tattoo right and be able to spell or at least check the spelling! The client may have approved it but they were probably upset and not thinking clearly since it's such an emotional subject. Even if the client did get the spelling wrong, the tattoo artist should have picked up on it and double checked it.

I'd say nothing.

My tattooist is very snobby about 'writing' tattoos. ('Coming in 'ere with their...fonts!')

So - he's the boss - he leaves them to the most junior tattooist on the team. Next junior has graduated to doing the corrections for unhappy customers from the crap place down the road.

I could be wrong, but I get the impression it's not a well respected type of tattoo amongst the cognoscenti, so the really shit hot tattooists/studios aren't doing them. Hence why writing tattoos are frequently a bit...pants.

There is no reason to say anything.
There is actually no reason for anyone to say anything. Sadly some wanker will.

Much as I'm a bit of a spag pedant, if they're oblivious to it and happy with their tattoo, I'd leave well alone

How have they themselves and the tattoo artist not noticed this??? What a dreadful shame, I have many tattoos and love them, but this just shows why you need to go to someone who knows what they are doing not some back street Bob (I'm assuming this is what they are to have not noticed the mistakes as they were permanently branding someone)

I would absolutely have to tell them, and actually it is probably better if you do not know them that well, you can quietly message them via Facebook. Poor poor lady!!