Bad Tattoos - No regerts

[lamp shade]

Tattoos are everywhere. With how far tattooing has come as an art there is really no excuse for there to be so much bad work.

Yet here we are.

Some of my favorite categories include:

"Scratchers," aka home tattooers who bought their equipment on eBay:


Misspellings:


Tacky:


Inappropriate:


And all around collections of bad tattooing decisions:


Let's see your best finds.

 

[General Disarray]

Awww yiss. I can showcase my state's own scratcher Synyster Ink!

Spoiler

More at his Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SynysterInkTattoo/

eta: I think he got smacked by his county's Health Department. Check out the floor on that last pic *hurl*

 

[WarJams]

Awww yiss. I can showcase my state's own scratcher Synyster Ink!

Spoiler

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More at his Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SynysterInkTattoo/

eta: I think he got smacked by his county's Health Department. Check out the floor on that last pic *hurl*

Holy fucking shit, I could turn out better line work on an etch-a-sketch

 

[Jaded Optimist]

I could have sworn that we had a bad tattoo thread already, but now I can't find it. Oh well.

 

[Brit Crust]

Finally, an excuse to post this.

 

[Punkinsplice]

Finally, an excuse to post this.

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Why would an obviously talented tattoo artist agree to do this monstrosity? His/her name will be forever tied to a pedophiliac work!

 

[WarJams]

Why would an obviously talented tattoo artist agree to do this monstrosity? His/her name will be forever tied to a pedophiliac work!

Money.

 

[Fascist Ferret]

Why would an obviously talented tattoo artist agree to do this monstrosity? His/her name will be forever tied to a pedophiliac work!

Theres a niche for everything

 

[Misaki Nakahara]

Why would an obviously talented tattoo artist agree to do this monstrosity? His/her name will be forever tied to a pedophiliac work!

Artists will often quote an extortionate price in order to make these people fuck off. My studio of choice will do a face tattoo as the person's first, or a genital tattoo, or some weird sexual shit, but it will cost like £1000 and you have to wait a week and then come back. That's usually enough to make most of them abandon their hopes of ever having "fuck the cops" on their face or a big spunking dick on their hand for life. Occasionally it backfires because the person wants it so badly that the price doesn't phase them and they happily cough up the money. (Well, "backfires" in the sense that this awful shit gets associated with them forever. It also means they get paid a grand for £100 worth of work.)

I'd guess that's what happened here. Dude probably paid an arm and a leg for this. Actually, he quite literally paid an arm, because now he can't show that arm to anyone ever again.

 

[lamp shade]

Artists will often quote an extortionate price in order to make these people fuck off. My local studio will do a face tattoo as the person's first, or a genital tattoo, or some weird sexual shit, but it will cost like £1000. That's enough to make most of them abandon their hopes of ever having "fuck the cops" on their face or a big spunking dick on their hand for life. Occasionally it backfires because the person wants it so badly that the price doesn't phase them and they happily cough up the money.

I'd guess that's what happened here. Dude probably paid an arm and a leg for this. Actually, he quite literally paid an arm, because now he can't show that arm to anyone ever again.

The “asshole pricing” is definitely a huge part of it. Other times the artists are just so tired of tattooing pocket watches and dream catchers that they’re happy to do fucked up stuff. Probably the former in this case though because it’s a super messed up idea.

 

[Fascist Ferret]

 

[Shield Breaker]

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I thought the rugrats one was bad, holy shit.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

"But jobs shouldn't discriminate based on tattoos!!!1!"

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This is a fantastic rape deterrent.

 

[US Marine Hyde]

I thought the rugrats one was bad, joly shit.

Everyone involved here should be in prison.

 

[Rice Is Ready]

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One of my favorite Instagram pages.

 

[murgatroid]

I posted this in some other thread, but I'm posting again because the before and after is so striking. Also, other possible category: mugshot tattoos.

Alyssa Zebrasky

Meth.

 

[Misaki Nakahara]

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Maximum contouring.

 

[Peetz's Bank Account]

I have some celebrity offerings as well as a tattoo I saw on a meme site when I was younger and that always comes to mind when I think of bad tattoos.

Spoiler: LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH

Spoiler: MONEY APPARENTLY CAN'T BUY A GOOD TATTOO

Ben Affleck


Ed Sheeran, but are we really surprised? His music is the soundtrack to autism

 

[Chive Turkey]

 

[Misaki Nakahara]

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LOOK AT THIS TITTY TAT
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH
HOW DID OUR EYES GET SO RED
AND WHAT THE HELL IS ON MARY'S CHEST