Shawn Mendes Loved The Tattoo A Fan Suggested So Much, He Actually Got It

Shawn Mendes has a new tattoo, and you'll never guess where the inspiration came from.


Soon after a fan shared a Photoshopped image of Mendes with a gorgeous butterfly tattoo on his arm, it actually caught the singer's attention.


Twitter user @nasaruins' image featured monochrome shots of Mendes fully rocking the tattoo on his forearm, which brought up Mendes to reply with a question: "Wait this is awesome, can u DM the drawing??"


That kickstarted a flurry of dreamlike events for the superfan, who actually acquired a follow-up DM from the singer. He requested an image of the tattoo and inquired as to how she got the tattoo on him for the Photoshopped image int he first place. The pair communicated briefly by way of the DM where @nasaruins explained how they had used an app called "Picsart" to take the original sketch, erase everything in the background, and apply it as a base to work from whenever stenciling it on Mendes's body for a photo.


After some brief consideration,  Mendes determined he loved the design. Originally created by Chilean tattoo artist @macdreaper, the tattoo depicted 1/2 of a butterfly with a long-established wing with the other made of flowers.


Following a whirlwind of events, Mendes' dedicated tattoo artist Livia Tsang took to Instagram with the tattoo right now actually on Mendes, He loved it so much, he actually had it tattooed on his arm in the same place the fan had Photoshopped it on!


"🦋🦋🦋 For the perfect @shawnmendes, Based on an edit from a fan, original art by @macdreaper 💛," Tsang captioned her snap of the design, thanking Mendes for "making my work look cook" in a later post.


Of course, with Mendes and Tsang showing off the new ink, the fan who actually worked on the edit was floored, as any one of us could be, sharing snaps of the work in progress on Twitter and having a mini freak-out over this beyond belief moment. Honestly, same, because who wouldn't react in the exact same way?


Looks like dreams really do come true.