Recently Pete Davidson announced his intention to have all of his tattoo removed. If you’re not familiar with Pete Davidson, he has a ton of tattoos, from the looks of it, most of them bad. Poor decision making coupled with poor execution has resulted in Pete deciding that he’d be better off without all those tattoos. Every. Single. One.

He says it’s because he wants to pursue a serious acting career, that the tattoos will keep him from getting good roles. While this is definitely possible, it hasn’t stopped plenty of other A-list actors from getting jobs, from Johnny Depp to Angelina Jolie to people like the Rock and Danny Trejo, whose tattoos have become an important part of their celebrity. Truth is, people like Pete want to get their tattoos removed because they made poor decisions and got bad work. That’s the problem, not ‘being tattooed’, but ‘being tattooed badly’.

We get hammered online for turning people away for various reasons. Ultimately it amounts to the fact that people don’t like being told ‘no’ and they especially hate it coming from someone in a service industry. The benefit of coming to a place like Lighthouse Tattoo is you’re less likely to end up like poor Pete here. If something doesn’t feel right about what you’re asking for or why you’re asking for it, we tend to strongly discourage moving forward with the idea. If we both decide to proceed, you can bet your sweet aunt Sally that your tattoo will be done at a high level and it won’t be something you want to have removed later.

Judging from his role on SNL and King of Staten Island, young Pete Davidson has a bright career ahead of himself. But if he doesn’t achieve what he wants to in life, it won’t be the tattoos that stop him, it will be his own choices.

If you don’t want to regret your tattoos in the future, make good choices and go to the best artist you can find. Simple as that.