1. When you're shopping online and find yourself checking out the models' tattoos instead.
2. When you want to compliment a stranger's ink, but don't want to freak them out.
3. When you find yourself constantly daydreaming about your next tattoo.
4. And when you're trying to save up for it.
5. When this is your Instagram feed.
You don't follow your BFF, but you do follow approximately 136 artists.
6. When you have dark skin and your color palette is severely limited.
7. When you have way too many freckles EXACTLY where you want your next piece.
8. When you refuse to leave the house without slathering your tattoo in sunscreen.
9. Or worse, when you forget to. 😔
10. When you get conflicting advice about aftercare.
11. When you have so many ideas that you can't decide which one you want tattooed first.
12. Same goes for canvas space, too.
13. When your favorite artist lives halfway around the world.
14. Or when they're booked for the next, oh, 82 years.
15. When you bring in your tiny sketch, and the artist blows it up to capture all the detail.
16. When a celeb gets the tattoo you wanted first.
17. When you have a crush on someone, but their tattoos are horrendous.
18. When you try to decode Yelp ratings of tattoo shops.
19. When you're getting words tattooed, and you've checked the spelling so many times you're not even sure if it's correct anymore.
20. When someone makes ridiculous assumptions about you or your life just because you have tattoos.
21. When you have to cover up for work or family.
22. When people demand the story behind your tattoo.
23. When you first glimpse your new tattoo and can't stop smiling.
