u/Mediocre-Candy-468

Hey, I am 26F from UK and it is my dream to do a ski season in Japan.

The maximum sabbatical my job will give me is 3 months/if I stack some holiday up to 4 months off, I would love to be able to work in a ski resort for this time period - but is it worth me getting a Working Holiday Visa for such a short time? UK residents are now able to get up to 2 WHVs, if I do use one for a short trip now, could that damage my chances of getting the second one? Would love to hear any experiences with getting the two WHVs!

I can't work my job remotely, but could I do some other work remotely without getting the WHV? I really would prefer to integrate myself into the town for the season even if it is a bit shorter as its one of the best parts imo. Any advice/thoughts appreciated (I would prefer to also not quit my job back home as I have worked very hard to get there but its seeming like it might have to be an option 🥲)

Long story but last year I got my fourth tattoo, it was my biggest piece really pleased with the artist and design. Everything was fine until I took off the second skin, after that I got a mild red rash across the tattoo. Artist advised it was a bit of irritation, keep doing aftercare and it would go down. Didn’t think too much of it as it was at NO point of this whole process itchy which would have been alarm bells that it was an allergy. About 5 weeks later, the red rash became pustules at it got really painful and oozing - and my leg swelled up like crazy but no itch. The GP thought bacterial infection, and got me on antibiotics, but then nothing was showing up in either bacterial or viral cultures - in the meantime I ended up on about 3 different antibiotics and steroid creams. The difficulty here is knowing what helped, although the first two antibiotics were getting almost no response so I imagine it was the steroids or a combination? I won’t post my face here but as it developed, I got deep cystic acne ALL over my face and back and my body went into shutdown. A different nurse later told me that she would have sent me to A&E in the state that I was in - I was incredibly unwell systemically not just the tattoo area. After about 2 weeks it started withdrawing, where the pustules were it has dried and scabbed over and it has left scars in my leg - it looks like a worm has eaten through my tattoo!

Overall the management and response to this issue was really bad which I regret, it was just such an unknown issue to me and my doctors, and I still havent found anything online where someone has had a similar reaction.

But for now I would love some advice on what to do next!!! I really want to get the tattoo touched up as its been really damaged. I am getting patch testing done from the NHS but this is quite generic. I wanted to ask the artist for patch testing with the inks he used as well, although from my reading it doesn’t seem to be too conclusive. Any advice or thoughts on how to approach this please!!!! Thank you 🙏🙏

Picture 1: initial redness

Picture 2/3: flare up

Picture 4: dried/scabbed over

Picture 5: how it looks now

WHV for 3/4 month ski season??

Severe tattoo allergy - advice please!!