Mother left with horrific acid burns after trying to remove tattoo of ex-boyfriend’s name

Dealing with heartache can be hard at the best of times, let alone having a constant reminder of your ex in the form of a tattoo.

People are often warned against getting tattoos of their lovers just in case things don’t work out and one woman probably wished she'd listened before going to such to drastic measures to remove her inkings.

Jessica Hardy found herself so desperate to erase her ex’s name from her arm after meeting her new boyfriend, Ryan, she tried to burn it off with acid after watching a clip on YouTube.

“I'm desperate to get rid of it, I have bad dreams about it,” she said on Spike TV show Tattoo Disasters.

Unable to afford laser removal surgery like the likes of Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox, the mother-of-one heard about acid peels and thought it would be the solution to her problem.

“I came across a YouTube video about acid peels so I thought that would be the way to get rid of my tattoo. The kit cost £25 online and I thought ‘bargain’,” she said.

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Jessica applied the acid in the dangerous DIY job without diluting it or reading the instructions properly and it immediately caused her skin to blister and burn.

A chemical peel should be applied by a trained beauty therapist in controlled conditions.

Describing the self-inflicted horrific ordeal, she said: “It felt like someone had poured boiling water on my arm and then got a lighter to it.

“After five minutes it went white and blistered, then started peeling, after three days it went all scabby.

“I didn't want to get it checked in case the nurses thought I was self-harming and I didn't want them to take the acid off me as I still wanted it.”

Despite the agony, Jessica reveals that she repeat the treatment six more times.

The skin on her forearm became inflamed and scabby and the tattoo was still visible.

Once she realised that her attempts had failed, Jessica went to see tattoo artist Aaron Mullen for advice and he was ‘shocked’ by Jessica’s “drastic” decisions.

He said: “I have never seen anything like it before, my first reaction was shock, she shouldn't have taken such a drastic measure to use acid on her skin.”

Mullen recommended that Jessica tries laser removal surgery to remove the unwanted tattoo but that she would have to wait to try after her skin had healed.

“I regret doing the acid now as I have made process slower. It will be another six to nine months till it will be completely gone,” she said.