22 Tattoo Fails Reminding You Think Twice About Getting Inked

Tattoos can be a beautiful thing, sometimes. They've been used for hundreds of years for various purposes, from religious practices to ways to express your personality, each of these are examples of how the art of getting a tattoo has been masterfully used to create unique and appealing body art. That being said, being a tattoo artist is no easy task, it requires years of training and a lot of practice, so you must be careful with who you pick to work on your body. Reddit's /r/badtattoos is a subreddit dedicated to showing off multiple examples of people getting terrible tattoos.

It's difficult to pinpoint exactly how these tattoo fails came to be, maybe it was because of an amateur tattoo artist, or maybe the person getting the tattoo just had a drunk night out and had no idea what he was doing. Either way, this collection serves as a warning for anyone thinking about getting some form of bodywork done to be very careful about how and where you do it, lest you end up being a laughing stock for strangers online.