The “artist” looks like he came from the Eighth circle of Dante’s Inferno, or perhaps the Ninth circle of the Chinese version. But they’re all wary of working on customers who might be non compos mentis. None of them want ex post facto legal trouble. I’m inclined to believe the tatooist—that the girl only came up with this story when her parents went ballistic. Shades of Tawana Brawley.
I saw a young Seattle woman with a tattooed circle, filled in with mountain scenes, covering the area between her shoulder blades.