You'll always be nervous while getting a tattoo, whether it's a small cross tattoo or a tattoo that covers your whole hand. There is always a small chance that you or someone else might mess it up, and it just stays there looking right into your soul.

There are masterpieces in the world of body art that leave us completely speechless, and then there are tattoos that make us grimace. Welcome to the land of "bad tattoos," or, as we like to call them, "tattoo fails."

Terrible tattoos are the consequences of poor design decisions, poor tattooing skills, or simply terrible luck. These tattoos left us scratching our heads and wondering, "What were they thinking?" So cheers to misspelled words and goofy portraits.

Now, they get to walk around with the worst tattoos anyone's ever seen, and they'll never be viewed the same way again thanks to their unpleasant body art. That's what happened to these 20 unfortunate people, and whether it was their own fault or the artist's, they can't undo it.