Second opinion? Meaning go to a different tattoo artist?
Yeah, I’m overall not very happy with the face. He did a great job with the “body” of the the doll, and the hair to an extent (I don’t like glamourous “pretty” hair, it was meant to be somewhat choppy, mussy and stylized), but I feel like not a whole lot of thought was put into the face. I may eventually get color, in which case I think a lot can be done to help. It’s just disappointing when you put trust into another person after doing a lot of research about the artists, and then they they don’t put a full effort into it. I’m an illustrator who does commissions for people, and I’m over-the-top careful about making sure my clients are happy with each and every step of the process, from the thumbnails to the final product, and I expect the same effort to be given to me. And if I didn’t “feel” a particular project, I’d tell my client so they could give a commission to someone else who would put their all into the project. Oh well, it’s a learning experience, and it didn’t put a foul taste for tattoos in my mouth.

It’s sort of a representation of my first memory… when I was 3 I had this really beautiful doll, I think it might have been Russian or Japanese (yeah, pretty big difference but I was 3, what did I know?!), with an egg-shaped body and a porcelain face set into it. The doll rolled into the creek in front of my house where an alligator snapping turtle lived, and my dad went into the creek to save the doll.
The doll on the left is the closest picture I could find online to what my doll looked like: