Bec Oakes
A woman has spent a whole load of money trying to cover up an accidental x-rated tattoo she got while she was drunk.
We've all made bad decisions after a few too many vodka sodas on a Friday night.
Luckily, our drunken mistakes rarely result in no more than a red face, a couple of bruises and the promise that we'll never drink again - until next weekend, that is.
But, for one UK woman, the consequences of a big night of drinking have been far more tricky to erase from her memory.
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On a drunken night in May 2020, Natalie Rene thought it'd be fun to try out a $60 tattoo kit she'd bought off Amazon with her friends.
The law student let her pal try a few designs on her and went to bed.
But, she woke up the next day with more than a raging hangover.
The 35-year-old said: “Straight away after I woke up that morning I thought, 'This isn’t how I pictured it', because I was drunk when I had them done.
"Then the reality kicked in."
Among several designs her pal had inked on her was a love-struck heart though it had turned out rather x-rated.
"The tattoo was meant to be a love heart with an arrow through it, but because it was so deep and the scarring, it looked like a hairy penis," she explained.
"I also got a few more that night from the same friend - a weird spirally thing on my leg with an R on it, and a love heart on my hand, another arrow on my foot, and a semicolon thing on my wrist."
And the distorted designs were more than just an eyesore. Due to how deep the ink had been inserted, they were also a major health hazard.
"We ended up going to the hospital because he tattooed so deep and it was bleeding and very sore," Rene recalled
"The doctor said it’s very dangerous, and I’m lucky I didn’t lose my arm because of how deep he tattooed it."
Rene has since had three of the botched tats covered up, spending around $1,700 (£1,350) having them transformed into intricate designs.
But, while she admits she's a bit of a 'hoarder' and still owns the tattoo kit, Rene refuses to pull it out while drunk with her mates.
She said: "When me and my friends are a bit drunk, my friends tell me to get it out, and I am like, 'Nope'.
"It’s never going to end well, and it’s never going to look good."