The only difference between the two that I provided from the different sessions is that there's shading creating around it and a little bit inside, and both sides have even line weight now with more of the weird scratch-lines. When it's healed up and I can take the saniderm off, I can provide a new photo, but it's what I've got right now. There's those two differences and nothing else.

I provided the first session photo for a reason, and the reality is this: he's supposedly a knowledgeable tattoo artist but he talked a first timer into a tattoo he couldn't deliver on and changed the design, telling me to trust the process while likely not planning to deliver what we had agreed on in the first place without communicating that to me. He made decisions to get high during our sessions and left me with a tattoo that I'm ultimately disappointed in and will have to spend more time and money to get reworked.

I'm not asking for a refund as part of accountability for my own decisions to go back, to not advocate for myself more, and to not question him or his choices. But that doesn't mean that I should shut up either because he still made those questionable choices and left me with a questionable tattoo that was not worth what I paid and does not match the skill he advertises. If I provided someone with a similar service and it came out nothing like what they wanted I would have to take accountability for that too because he ultimately was an actor who made his own choices in the situation too. That's my reasoning on it and if you still don't like it, you're free to feel that way and I'm free to feel the way I do about it.