DEEP TROUBLE:Melissa Tabatabai says a tattoo artist used an ink that penetrated her skin and left what appears like a bruise.
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She wanted one tattoo, not two!
A Chelsea beauty who recently ordered up a tattoo for her left arm got one more tag than she bargained for — a revolting ink blot beneath her skin.
Melissa Tabatabai, 29, first thought the odd mark below her tattoo — the script of the word “peace” in Farsi — was just a post-procedure bruise.
But that’s “until it didn’t get any better,” said Tabatabai, a freelance writer.
In fact, the ink — a new brand in use by the parlor — actually seeped below the skin and into the capillaries, she said.
“It’s supposed to look like a dove but it looks like a big bruise because the ink spread!” she cried.
“It’s not going away. It’s permanent. I’m just in shock,” she said, adding that the area around her veins is in intense pain.
Soon after she realized what happened, she confronted the artist at Rising Dragon Tattoo parlor on West 14th Street.
The parlor admitted to her that they’ve had “problems” with Eternal Ink.
“They said that this batch was too highly concentrated,” she said.
“If my artist had problems with it, why did he keep using it?” she said.
She demanded a refund, but the artist refused.
Instead, he offered to pay for her to go to a non-physician laser tattoo-removal facility on Long Island — but Tabatabai said she’ll only trust a doctor to do the painful procedure, which would take as many as 12 sessions at up to $700 a pop.
Darren Rosa, the owner of Rising Dragon, said the artist mistakenly used the ink for “outlining” — which goes deeper into the skin — and not “shading.”
“The outliner needle created a pathway for the ink to move into her capillary bed. It’s not unheard of,” he said.
He says the ink should carry a warning label, and insists his staff is now using the ink for the right purpose.
Tabatabai is considering a class-action suit.
“We’re investigating what actually occurred here, said her lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia. “Her arm is now permanently disfigured because of this.”
There are numerous other similar cases in New York and around the country, and Ovadia said she’s investigating to see if they are related.