One of the biggest things about tattoos is that they're permanent (mostly). Like that's why people put a lot of time, consideration and money into them because they are going to be there forever … or at least that's usually the hope.

Well, considering the look of many tattoos, some people didn't get this memo. There are some disastrously bad tattoos out there, scarily bad. Having a tattoo fail is embarrassing, and there are so many of them out there.

It's important to be able to trust who is going to do a tattoo, and on top of that, it's important to consider the design deeply. Because a bad idea, an unskilled artist or a doomed combination of the two is sure to leave someone with a big, painful regret. There are so many bad tattoos out there that there is a whole community on Reddit filled with them.

Here are just 24 of some of the worst tattoos out there, these are both ones found in the wild and cases of self-shaming.