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50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Funny,FailsAPR 26, 2025

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting

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A person’s taste in art and design might be incredibly subjective; however, this doesn’t mean that their choices won’t be judged by their peers. Some people’s ideas on what to get inked are so bizarre that others can’t help but criticize them.
AskReddit users, both tattoo artists and fans of getting tattooed themselves, took to several online threads to share their thoughts about the tattoo types they find to be the most cringeworthy and weird. Scroll down for their personal opinions about what designs you might want to consider avoiding.

#1

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Hate symbols.
69points

#2

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Not a tattoo artist, but my sister has possibly the worst/stupidest tattoo i have ever seen.

On her lower back she has this elaborate cross thing with arrow like points on the end of each bit, which when she wears a shirt (and lets face it, she is pretty bogan so the shirt never meets the pants) all you see from behind is a whopping great black arrow to her a**e crack.

To top it off she has gone and got 'love hurts' tattooed across her shoulder blades in f*****g huge letters (you can almost see this s**t from the moon) so on warm summer days when she is wearing a singlet top all you see from behind is "love hurts" and an arrow to her a**e.

She gets s****y when I point out that love does hurt if your aiming for that hole. Doesn't see the funny side at all.

Needless to say she is classy as f**k.
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62points

#3

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Incorrectly translated foreign text.
53points

According to Singulart magazine, butterflies are the most popular tattoos in the United States, with 201k people searching for them on Google every month.

In second place with 165k monthly searches are rose tattoos, followed by flower designs and dragons (both 110k searches each). Next up in terms of popularity are snakes (90.5k searches), tribal designs (74k searches), and more ‘traditional’ ink designs.

#4

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Forehead, anywhere else I'm ok with but foreheads sorry not for me.
47points

#5

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Lips on the neck. Every time.
43points

#6

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Names, unless it is the name of your child, don’t do it.
39points

The least popular designs, at least in the US, are likely star signs, musical notes, Disney characters, and pet tattoos.

On the other side of the Atlantic, in the United Kingdom, butterfly and rose tattoos also rank in the top two spots.

Other popular designs are dragons, flowers, lions, snakes, and matching tattoos, all of which are equally desired by Brits, with 18.1k searches on Google each per month.

#7

Not a tattoo artist but when I went to get my first tattoo, I was sat waiting for the tattooist to get the stencil ready so I was reading through some tattoo magazines and there was this one tattoo... It was a full on v****a with a tampon sticking out of it with blood leaking all over the place. Just.. Who the f**k would get that.
37points

#8

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Chinese characters whose meaning people don't understand.
36points

#9

Not me but my mentor tattooed the words "No daddy don't!" on some guys hand. apparently the dude wanted to see that so he thought about his kids every time he reached for a drink.
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31points

In the UK, angel, bee, and dreamcatcher designs are also popular, while Roman numerals are very much lauded in specific cities like Birmingham, Bristol, and Glasgow.

Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, tree tattoos are the most wanted, while people living in Bristol are also big fans of stars.

#10

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Babies' faces.
30points

#11

Badly done ones and misspelled words.
29points

#12

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Faces of people.
27points

What are some tattoo types and styles that you utterly loathe, dear Pandas? What ink designs get you all riled up when you see them? On the other hand, what tattoos are you genuinely huge fans of?

Do we have any veteran or amateur tattoo stylists here with us today? What do you personally think lies at the core of truly great designs? Let us know what you think in the comments.

#13

I've written about this before, but back when I did tattoos, I had a guy who wanted "failure is not an option" on his stomach. I warn him that the stomach area doesn't feel all that great. He says he can handle it. Ok, whatever. So, I draw it up, get the stencil on him and start the tattoo. Immediately he's yelling, "holy s**t! Stop!!!". So I stop. "Oh my god! S**t! I didn't know it would hurt that f*****g much!" Well, I tried to warn you. He goes and has a cigarette, comes back, and has me start again. So I slowly get through the outline, the whole time he's swearing at me and he's having to take breaks every few letters because the pain is too much for him. Finally it's time to fill in the letters. This guy just could not handle it. I got to "failure is" before he completely quit. So, I guess, failure WAS an option. Lol.

When I was an apprentice at a shop, we had a girl that came in who lost a bet at beer pong that had to get "don't call me in the morning ❤" tattooed on her a*s. Whatever. So the chick I was learning from draws it up and puts it on her. As she's tattooing the girl's butt, she asks her, "what if you meet a guy you like? He's not going to call you back!" And she said, "I just won't do him doggy style then." Lol. Ok.
27points

#14

It was way back during my high school years. My friend decided to get a tattoo from our weed dealer (used to run a parlor). Next morning I met him for tea, he is sitting there like his cat died. I ask him what’s wrong. He said nothing and started to unbutton few buttons. By then I started to speculate that that guy f****d up his tattoo. But it was magnificent- he wanted his dad’s portrait on his chest. And the portrait was done just right; every little feature. Too bad it wasn’t his dad’s portrait.
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27points

#15

I have a friend that's an apprentice in the midwest, so I get bizarre tattoo stories all the time.

He told me recently a young woman was vehemently demanding that the artists tattoo "Daddy's Little Girl" on her mons pubis. All 4 artists in the shop refused and sent her away.
26points

#16

Unfinished ones because they couldn't bear the pain.
24points

#17

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
I’m not a tattoo artist but I’ve got a cousin who got a speech bubble on his arm with The Voice written on it so that he could ask people if they preferred XFactor or The Voice and then when they asked him, he could just lift his sleeve up.

No clue why.
24points

#18

I get this question almost every day. you do so many tattoos that you get jaded. so eventually none are weird or cringy. everyone gets em for whatever reason they feel they need em. so , judgy shouldn't be part of the job. that being said. these mother f*****s coming in to get each other's names after only being together for a couple weeks is pretty bad. my shop is across from a bar. this one time, a few years back. a man and a woman come in and want shot glasses with each others names in em. say they met that night. decided to be spontaneous. i was like " f**k yeah you do, come on in. " never heard from them again after that. don't know if they killed each other? or spending quarantine in bliss?
24points

#19

50 People Reveal What They Think Are The Cringiest Tattoos That No One Should Be Getting
Barbed wire around the bicep.
23points

#20

Not a tattoo artist, but a friend of mines cousin has the words "Your Name" tattooed on his a*s. So he goes around at bars betting people that he has "Your Name" on his a*s. This man makes some decent money off of people.
23points
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