Ho Chi Minh City

When things go wrong at the tattoo parlor

Vietnam long ago joined the trend of girls being fashionable by getting tattoo's.

Last weekend I was shooting in my favorite alley when I happened upon a typically lovely 18 year old Vietnamese girl, out with her boyfriend, who was devotedly taking photographs of the freshly minted tattoo on her shoulder blade with an iPhone. They asked me to make a photograph, which of course, I did.

The unfortunately bold inscription proclaims "Whenever you decided to do something, never look back!."

I decided not to point out the error, perhaps thus contributing to a spate of grammatically incorrect tattoo's in Saigon.