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

My ex bf was a tattoo artist before he was paralyzed. He did some amazing cover ups. One guy had f***k the police tattooed under his left eye/ upper cheek. After years of terrible encounters with law enforcement ( understandably) he came in for a cover up. My ex did an amazing scorpion covering all traces of the words. My ex was an amazing artist ( he did the majority of my tattoos) that unfortunately had his career cut short.

Not an artist, but my friend posted a picture of this HUGE forearm tattoo of a Green Day concert ticket. It was probably one of the most stupid tattoos I'd ever seen. The friend said that her little brother got his first tattoo, and I asked if it was a joke. It wasn't.

I happened to save the picture to my computer, so here it is!

I'm an apprentice atm and asked my mentor this question a while back. He wouldn't give specifics, but said he "doesn't do a*s tattoos anymore..." I'm hoping that if I'm patient I'll get the story out of him eventually...

Trendy ones. Currently seeing a lot of lions with blue eyes or clock faces.

What I find cringy in a tattoo is not the tattoo itself but the explanations that always go with it, like : “yeah you know, I decided to get this tattoo of a car with flames and a rifle surrounding it because my best friend had a car accident and I thought he could have died and once I shoot a gun and ...” dude stop it ! You like car, you got a tattoo with a car, period. You also like guns and think you look badass with it, go for it, but don’t make cheap excuses.

I have a tattoo of Borat on my butt.

The cousin of a friend got his first name in big letters on his right arm and his last name on his other arm. The first time we got introduced he showed me his arms.

Tramp Stamps.

My tattoo artist had on her instagram where she covered up what looked like a prison tattoo on a woman's Mons Pubis that said "Amy's Property". The coverup was Tweetybird on a lilac, which isn't a subject matter that I would personally get tattooed on myself, let alone in the swimsuit area, but has to be better than "Amy's Property." Especially since my artist told me the lady is now married to someone who is presumably not named Amy.

Not a tattooer but I worked at a tattoo shop for several years. One of the funniest/oddest tattoos ive ever seen was on this black guy who was about 50 years old. He got his forehead tattooed with a faux hair line and had one of those pencil thin beard, goatee, chin strap type of facial hair styles, tattooed. He was very very insistent on how he wanted it done and how thin it needed to be. It wad maybe 1/4 inch all the way around. Im pretty sure he eventually got his entire scalp tattooed to resemble a stubble growth. And his eyebrows done to appear perfectly waxed at all times. Very weird individual. He was loaded though so good for him I guess.

Do not tattoo, but draw tattoos for artists to put the ink to skin.


The worst was a lady who had miscarried. And not only wanted the ultra sound picture with a little heartbeat indicator turning into a flatline. And something like "You're mother will always love you".

No matter how much I tried to correct her grammar, she would not listen. I turned it into the artist and he saw the pic, said "are you kidding me?!" then I brought his attention to the text. He went and spoke to her, and she said "Why cant you people just give me what I want?!".

I'm not a tattoo artist, But my friend got a tattoo of a d**k riding a d**k with a speech bubble saying "D**k-Seption".

My fiancé tattooed "shazam" with a lightning bolt exclamation point on some guys balls.

A buddy of mine is a tattoo artist so I just asked him this question. His reply:

"I had a gay guy come in once to get some prices. Now, merovingion, ya know I don't have anything against gay people but this guy wanted a tat I just had to refuse out of hilarity. He wanted the Dodge Ram symbol, yes the truck, with 'Don't Dodge It' on top and 'Ram it' on the bottom. Here's the kicker, he wanted it a tramp stamp. . ."

I mean, really? We weren't sure if this guy lost a bet or if this was legitimate.

New a guy who got deadpool riding a unicorn on his entire chest.

Somebodies name.

I had to tattoo an icecream machine on someone's lower back and handle going down to his crack.

He kept saying that 'softserve was hilarious'

what a freak.

I'm no tattoo artist by my grandma has her eyebrows tattooed on and same with her eyeliner. She never has to do her makeup.... Ever.

Used to be really good friends with a dude named Greg. And his wife was... nice enough but not nearly as cool. Very b****y, not very nice to him or others. My friendship with the dude was very cut and dry, not something that could ever be considered questionable or indecent, etc. We'd just video game together.

Anyhow, they were married with a kid, and I went over to play DDR or some similar dance game with them on her invite. Apparently during this time, (to hear Greg tell it) she got jealous of me for some reason and asked if I would let her use a zombie self portrait I had painted of myself as a tattoo.

I thought nothing of it and assumed she meant as a reference for something kind of different... etc, I said sure.

The next week, this girl got my WHOLE A*S LIKENESS done as a FULL back piece. I'm talkin neck to butt crack. Before proceeding to divorce her husband a month later and abandoning their baby girl with him.

To this day I have no idea what she was thinking.

My female friend and I were really drunk one night. We decided to go to a tattoo artist to get matching tattoos. When we got there, she decided to get a tattoo of a d**k in the middle of her t**s. Me being my drunk self, decided to do the same. The tattoo artist asked me three or four times if I actually wanted to do this and I just said, "Yeah dude, totally, just stick the needle already." The next day, we both laugh and stare at our respective tattoos. After a couple of years I decided to remove it, but it was a fun night.