But even with his bold decisions, Ethan now feels guilty.

“I guess you could say I regret some tattoos,” he said in a LadBibleTV No Filter series interview. “Not just regret; I believe that wanting to be seen differently differs from regret.”

Ethan has started a road of tattoo removal, carefully following this procedure for the past year.

For around twelve months, I have been undergoing laser [surgery]. We do it in pieces, but I have most likely gone over the entire six or seven times.

His drive comes from battling anxiousness, a mental weight aggravated by his very tattooed appearance.

“Mental stuff is a funny thing to pin down, but I want to think that a lot of the anxiety was from just having a face full of tattoos,” Ethan said. .

Ethan sees his face tattoos as a symbolic “clearing of the canvas,” anxiously awaiting their slow disappearance over the following two years even if he is happy with his appearance.