Growing up, I was fascinated with drawing “tattoos” on myself with pens and markers. Eventually, I graduated from inking myself to convincing my mom to buy me those cute sticker tattoos. You know the ones. The cheap, typically rainbow-colored designs of unicorns, actual rainbows, and, my personal favorite, butterflies!

Alas, my fake tattoo phase ended around age 9 or 10. However, it may have lasted a little longer had I been exposed to having mine done at an actual tattoo parlor like one of the coolest kids around — Ashton Dwayne, who goes by @baby_ashton1 on Instagram.

On Aug. 21, 2023, Ashton’s mom, Ashley, posted a video of her son on her TikTok account, @ashleynicole0802, and on Ashton’s page. At some point, unbeknownst to me, tattoo shops began applying fake tattoos on customers’ bodies. Ashley recorded Ashton sitting on a table at a local tattoo parlor in the video.

The poor baby is in absolute distress as the tattoo artist begins applying Ashton’s tats, which Ashley shared she purchased from Amazon. He can’t even look at his mom during the process, as he has his hand over his eyes and breathing heavily while the artist covers his body with the tattoo.

Ashley couldn’t help but laugh at her son in the video and joked that she should’ve brought him some “numbing cream” during his big day. Lol!

“Mommy 4got the numbing cream😥😢😭😭😭,” Ashley wrote. “End of summer fun😂🤣😅💙.”