When I was 21 I got a tattoo on my chest that was centered between my breasts.

As such, I had to lie down topless. The whole process took 2.5 - 3 hours. It was my first and only tattoo.

It wasn’t until I was 32 when I was talking to friend who is covered in tats that she was like, isn’t your tattoo like 1" by 2"? And a leaf with two colors? Yes..  Yeah hun, he just wanted to stare at your chest. That should have taken 45min to an hour tops.

Thinking back, the more i remember, the stupidier i feel. I was laying there topless, feeling embarassed that my nipples were hard, my eyes were closed most of the time because i felt weird looking up at him, he was moving my breasts around while he worked saying "sorry i have to stretch the skin to get the lines straight". He was taking his time doing it, having fun feeling me up. I just layed there with my eyes closed telling myself not to worry, that it was normal. He had to do this to get the tattoo right.     

After he was done he said it came out amazing and wanted to get the owners opinion.

The owner of the tattoo shop was working in the next room, my tattoo artist went to grab him and they both came in to take a look at his work. I was so shy and closed my eyes when i saw them walk in, i just layed there on display while they talked and looked at me. The owner said, "you should take a picture for your portofio". Thats when i opened my eyes and saw them both looking at me, i felt myself turned bright red.

The owner left and my artist started telling me about how to put cream on it and how to take care of it, he was going to wrap it in syran wrap and i could take it off and wash it when i got home.. I started going for my shirt and before i put my shirt on he asked if he could take a picture for his porfolio. I had it rehearsed in my head that i was going to say sorry but no, but instead i said, ok just please dont get my face in the picture. God i was dumb, i was too shy to say no. Being young you feel like you dont want to upset anyone, now being older i could care less.

When i put my hands over my nipples to cover them i remember him saying, please dont cover them, it wont look as natural. Like that made any sense, but yup i just went along with that too. I was just doing what i was told.

He took about a dozen pictures at different angles, he had me put my arms over my head and then to the side posing differently, and then for the last one he told me to stick my chest out and shoulders back " so the tattoo is in front" It felt so wrong pushing my boobs out like that, but i just kept following his instructions and doing everything he asked me to. He kept saying over and over how he needed to get the right picture to show how amazing it was, and like a dummy i was there smiling and doing the poses he was asking me to do. 

I'm amazed at how naive and submissive i was. He must have been laughing later thinking how dumb i was.

In some fucked up way there is a tiny part of me that gets aroused thinking how i was taken advantage of. I wrote this story after i read another girls story, hers was a lot worse, She was also young and didnt want to upset anyone. Her tattoo artist went far beyond what mine did, he asked her for a blowjob, she was too timid to say no, he then told her he would knock half the price off of her tattoo.

She said she was scared he wouldn't do a good job on the tattoo, so she tried to play it cool and decline nicely, but before she knew it his dick was out, she layed there on his chair like a deer caught in headlights. He stepped forward, and without thinking her mouth opened up and let him in, doing it because she felt like she had to, "for the tattoo".. and regretting later. She never said no, she just wasnt mature enought to handle the situation, she couldnt speak up for herself, so she got taken advantage of.

She got a cover up tattoo over what he did, couldnt stand to look at the one he did.