Tattoo parlor wants to give you a random tattoo via a bubblegum machine

It's the luck of the draw.
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Mia Johnson
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Here's a cool new way for all the indecisive (but adventurous) people to get the tattoo of their dreams.

Starting this week, Elm Street Tattoo in Dallas, Texas, will randomly pick your tattoo design for you if you're up for the surprise.

You will get that design out of a coin-operated machine, just like the ones at the mall you used to buy bubble gum from as a kid.

The process is pretty simple: Artists at the shop sketch tattoo designs, place it in a capsule, and then put it into the machine for a brave client to draw at random.

The cost is $100, but you can grab another for $20, according to the Dallas Observer. Even if you end up paying $120 to get another design, that’s still quite the deal.

"All of these tattoos I would price out between $160 and $180 ... maybe $250," one shop employee known as Boogie told the Dallas Observer.

Oh, and don’t worry about pulling a gag tattoo out of the machine like a Minion or the Snapchat hot dog. The shop swears all the tattoos are drawn in good taste.

"They're all good ones — old-school snakes, devil heads," Boogie said in the report.

A label on the tattoo machine reads, "You don’t have to be smart to get a good tattoo." So you can just sit back, relax, and let the machine make a good decision for you.

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Mia Johnson was a web culture intern for Mashable. She's a Chicago native and Missouri School of Journalism graduate. She has a background in online, TV, and magazine journalism.

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