Teen makes a terrible, terrible mistake in letting friend choose her first tattoo

This might not be the healthiest friendship.
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Kayla Bazile
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Friends don't let friends make tattoo decisions.

Elle Mills, a YouTuber and student, wanted to make a series of "first time" videos for her channel. Her friend, Tavian Palacios, had recently gotten a tattoo and suggested Mills get one for the first video of the series.

"[I] felt like it wouldn't be an exciting YouTube video if I just got a tattoo and that was it, so I decided it would be a whole lot more entertaining if Tavian chose it and surprised me," Mills said in an interview.

And, boy, did her friend deliver on that surprise. Without her knowledge, Palacios chose a simple tattoo design of a heart with a banner in the middle displaying his Twitter handle.

The YouTuber said her first thought of seeing the tattoo was, "that son of a bitch" but ultimately she wasn't mad because she would have done the same thing to him as that is the kind of the friendship they have.

Mills will get her revenge, though. Palacios will be getting her YouTube name tattooed somewhere on his body as a sign of truce.

This might not be the healthiest friendship. But it sure makes for a good video.

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Kayla is the pop culture intern at Mashable and can most likely be found looking up funny pictures of cats on the internet.Follow her gif filled Twitter: @oh_kayx

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