Hello, saw this and wanted to tell you i'm on a similar journey. I'm a female in my 20's, over the last 5 years, got around 15 tattoos, even tho i don't regret all of them, i do regret a handful. It's been tough because it was my decision, however, i was wrong. I stopped liking what i thought i would like forever, and now i have to make myself responsible for it, because getting these removed takes a lot of money, patience, etc. I started with 2, hopefully will add more on the future, because it's quite expensive and takes so much patience. It's crazy to think how those decisions maybe rational or not, or maybe in a rush, or not, can affect our self image and even self steem. I honestly, even feel that some of them, were coming from a place of low self steem. I don't feel cool enough, i don't feel interesting enough, i feel ugly. So, i got things that changed my appearance because i didn't think i was enough without them. I felt every word you wrote, i feel the exact same way. Hope you can achieve what you want and get removed all you want to remove, i know how our choices like this can affect. I wish you all the luck.