Paying £250 for a portrait tattoo basically guarantees it’s going to be terrible. Unfortunately for Sarah Jackson from Warrington, Cheshire, she doesn’t seem to know what a decent tattoo artist charges and so has ended up with tattoo of Rod Stewart on her arm.

Sarah booked in to have a giant portrait inked on her upper arm at Creative Tattoo and burst into tears once she saw the finished product. Here’s what she wanted – this image of her late grandma Thelma:

And here’s what she ended up with:

Looks more like Elton John after a stroke if you ask me? For some reason the tattoo artist shaded her grandma’s hair black and really cocked up the glasses as well. It’s so bad that Sarah’s son thought it was a tattoo of his granddad.

Sarah told the Metro:

‘When people were saying it looks like a man I just sat there crying my eyes out. I saw people say it looks like Rod Stewart.

I was looking forward to having the permanent reminder of her, it’s the way I express myself.

I’m heartbroken all over again. It’s a photo which means a lot to me and it was on her funeral card.

Her lips, her chin, her eyes, they all look wrong. She’s not even got an eye on the left-hand side and she had white hair not black hair.

When you’re looking down at it, it looks completely different. I only realised about five weeks afterwards how bad it was.

When I showed it to a friend she said her tattoo artist said he’d never seen anything so shocking in his life. That’s when I realised and started to cry.’

Sarah now faces numerous treatments to remove the tattoo, but fair play to Creative Tattoo in Warrington – they’ve agreed to give her a full refund and compensation package. Which means they must realise what a terrible job their artist did, although I’m not sure they’ll appreciate Sarah taking this story to all the blogs.

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For the drunk neo Nazi who got a swastika tattooed on his balls, click HERE.