Why it's important to find a good tattoo artist
 

Because you don't want the memorial to your beloved wife to look like this:

In case that image doesn't make it through, here's a link to the image on Flickr.

Quelle scandale!
 

The worst part is the nose.

Is the person who got it complaining about the quality or is it just something going around that others are laughing at?

The recipient must have approved the transfer and it would have been similar.

Unless it was freehand.

That's a good candidate for one of the before/after photos in the haunted mansion hallway.

Transfers are seldom perfect- they more or less form the outline, with shading, etc, to be done by the artist in the hopes they know what the hell they are doing. This one didn't.

My transfers always included everything. Including shading. But I've only gone to really good people so my expectation is probably skewed.

Also, I've never really seen a photograph tat of a person that I thought looked great. Certainly much better than that, but not great.

She looks like one of my uncles...

OMG, she looks like a pre-op transexual on his arm...