Man wanted regrets tattoo of his daughter (who also hates it now she's a teen)

• Malcolm, 40, wanted his little girl’s portrait tattooed on his leg


• But result was a caricature that looked nothing like her 


• Ten years on, both he and his daughter hate the tattoo 

By

Lucy Waterlow for MailOnline

Published:

17:00 GMT, 19 May 2015


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Updated:

17:59 GMT, 19 May 2015

While the majority of fathers are happy to carry a picture of their child around in their wallet, one man from Derby decided to go one step further – with disastrous results.

Security guard Malcolm, 40, had hoped to have a perfect picture of his daughter Sophie tattooed onto his leg.

But the result was far from what he hoped for, with the tattooist leaving him with an image that looked ‘more like Queen Elizabeth than my baby girl’.

Unimpressed: Father-of-two Malcolm hates a tattoo he got on his leg of his daughter

‘I wanted something beautiful on me, a portrait of Sophie to remind me of her and what she looked like,’ explains the father-of-two.

‘I had been to the tattooist before so I was confident he would do a good job.’

But instead, the tattooist drew ‘freehand’ on his leg and the results bore little resemblance to the photo of Sophie he was shown.

Despite his reservations, Malcolm didn’t interrupt as he trusted the tattoo as an ‘artist’ and thought he would be happy with the end result.

‘The end tattoo looks nothing like Sophie,’ says Malcolm, who appears on tonight’s episode of Tattoo Disasters UK on Spike.

‘I don’t cherish the tattoo, I hate it. It’s more like a picture of Queen Elizabeth than my baby girl.’

Not right: Malcolm had hoped for something like the photo on the left but got this picture, right, instead

Hiding the inking: Celebrity tattooist Kevin Paul creates a new design over Malcolm’s old tattoo

Much better: Malcolm shows off his new tattoo that no longer features his daughter but roses instead

A decade on and Malcolm says he still regrets the tattoo – as does his daughter.

‘It looks nothing like me, it’s horrible. I’m ashamed to say that’s me on his leg,’ said Sophie, who is now a teenager. ‘It’s embarrassing when he puts shorts on.’

Her younger sister Madison adds: ‘It looks like an alien.’

Malcolm has now visited celebrity tattooist Kevin Paul – whose clients include Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran  – to have the offending inking covered up. 

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Man wanted regrets tattoo of his daughter (who also hates it now she"s a teen)