@Asrais 135380 wrote:

I thought it would be good to give the apprentice a shot – I trusted them and obviously that was stupid of me.

Alas. I too made this mistake. I read an article about a tattoo apprentice some years ago. When the shop owner thought he was ready for real human skin he paid some wino’s to get tattooed. A tattoo apprenticeship should be YEARS. Now a few months is all it takes.