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A woman has gone viral for revealing her dad had been right when he predicted she'd regret a choice she made at age 21.
Emily McMahon, 27, lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she works as a hairstylist, and six years ago decided to celebrate her love of music with a tattoo.
Now she's undergoing painful procedures to get the tattoo removed—as predicted by her father when he first saw the ink.
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"It wasn't my first tattoo, it was probably my fourth," she told Newsweek, revealing the tattoo in question was the album cover of Mac Miller's 2013 record Watching Movies with the Sound Off on the back of her arm.
"It was, and honestly still is, one of my favorite albums, but I just grew out of the style of the tattoo," she said. "It didn't really feel like it fit me anymore, and I didn't like where I placed it.
"My dad knew when he saw it [that] I was going to hate it one day for both of those reasons."
McMahon shared a video to her TikTok account @haiirbyem on April 1, which has been viewed more than 3.5 million times, where she told the story to viewers, and began by saying: "I hate to admit when people are right."
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She revealed that when she showed the tattoo to her father, he told her simply: "I don't even need to be mad about this, because there's two options here."
"You're either going to hate that tattoo and be stuck with it for life, or you're going to hate it and have to get it removed, which is the most painful experience. So either way, you lose," he said.
Naturally, she responded, insisting she would "love this tattoo forever," but then told the camera: "Guess what I'm doing at 27? Removing this tattoo."
"And it is, in fact, the most painful experience. So I guess dads are just always right."
Tattoo removal can be a long and complex process requiring several sessions to complete, as it breaks down the permanent ink into smaller particles that can be removed from the body by a person's immune system, according to the Cleveland Clinic. It can be painful, and clients may be offered general anesthesia or a local anesthetic before the procedure.
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TikTok users had a huge reaction, with thousands commenting on the clip, including one parent who revealed: "I told my daughter [I'd] pay her $1000 if she waited til 25 to get a tattoo. We signed an agreement."
To which another parent replied: "Thank you for this. My child is 3 but I'll be using this!"
"I regret all of my tattoo. My mom was right," another admitted, but another argued: "I regret none of mine because they help remind me of the place I was at that point in my life and without all those experiences I would not be the wife, Mom, Friend, daughter I am now."
McMahon added in the caption to the video: "Dad always knew best."
And she told Newsweek that in her case: "My dad really has never been wrong when giving me advice, so its just kind of funny that parents really do always know best."
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