tattoos

Some of these are actually kind of cool, while others just never should've happened in the first place. That being said, it'd be a bold move to get any of these. 

Do what you want with body art, but we can't say that these were all intentional. With the wrong artist, wrong idea, or wrong spelling, a regrettable tattoo can become as memorable as it is permanent. If you have a great idea, might as well run it by someone first and make sure the spelling is at least right.

Like buying a car or anything else you're expecting to be stuck with for a while, tattoos are one of those things that it helps to think a little harder about, and go to the right artist. Oh, and double check any tattoos you get in languages you don't understand, because they end up as tattoo translation fails. On the other side, here are some cool tattoos that turned scars into art.

Someone on AskReddit asked for tattoo artists to describe their experiences with rejecting people's tattoo requests. Sometimes the tattoo artist ends up being a kind of gatekeeper, from letting the stupid spontaneous decisions from getting through. 

Sometimes people feel like being a paying customer makes them impervious to criticism, but when it comes to responding to entitled customers who don't reveal the full story, the businesses themselves tend to have some pretty damning responses. Here's one where a business owner leveled with a guy who complained over a dollar taco. This one has an interesting twist regarding that pesky "voice was too high" remark.

Someone on AskReddit asked for people that speak Japanese and/or Chinese to share the very worst (or best...) of the tattoo translation fails that they've seen. These might be some of our favorite kinds of fails. Tattoo artists can be brutal when it comes to surprising people with tattoos that definitely don't translate to what people think they do. 

These people are part of the reason why some parents tell their kids to never get tattoos. We can't imagine that there was a ton of thought that went into some of these. Hell, maybe we're wrong though. Maybe these are the kinds of tattoos that these individuals dreamed of getting all along. 

In this wide world, we see a lot of hilarious translations and translation fails. Languages are complex and hard to understand completely. These frustratingly interesting observations on language and silly literal translations are a good example of that. This can come to a head when overzealous tourists try to get a tattoo in not only a language they don't understand, but in characters that are also completely foreign to them. Case in point, you don't want to misstep and end up as the "goldfish man"

Some of these are extremely well done and absolutely random, and that's totally okay. While others, others generally make us fear for humanity. 

These timeless tattoos might make anyone out there who regrets a particularly bad tattoo that they got, feel a little less worse about themselves. Sometimes, it just helps to know that there's always a bigger moron in the universe who got a dumber tattoo than you. 

Here are some tattoos that are just off, really not well done, or were a not great idea from the start. Hopefully these people had a really good reason for their unorthodox ink. Done with cursed anything? Think some images could cursed but blessed at the same time? Here are some blursed images spawned from purgatory itself. For some straight up tattoo fails, here are some really not great tattoos people went through with.

Got an unsightly surgery scar that you wanna jazz up? Bam! Fishbone! We've seen our fair share of really not great tattoos. Bad tattoos are a dime a dozen. But these are flippin' cool. Here are a bunch of clever ways people used tattoos to cover up and repurpose scars and birthmarks into cool looking artwork.

It feels like the groom is being just a bit controlling in this situation involving getting mad at his brother for his tattoo; and the risk that it could be "distracting" at his wedding. 

When the concept is tacky, but the creation is tactful. Find more at r/ATBGE.

Okay "tastefully" might be a little bit of a stretch. These are either pretty cool looking or funny though. If you're getting a tattoo of your SO's name and/or face, be sure that the relationship will last. Otherwise you might have to slap down a couple hundred dollars for one of these bad boys. For some outright bad tattoos, here are some really not great tattoos people went through with.

Of the many things to skimp on in life, tattoos are not on that list. Make sure you have a good vision in mind, mull it over, and find a professional artist. But that's just a suggestion. If you really really want a tattoo of Richard Nixon in fishnets and your friend's cousin's step-dad says he can totally do it in his garage for 50 bucks, we'd sure like to see how it turns out.