The whole thing about tattoos is that they are permanent. When someone gets a tattoo, it stays with them for life. These days, tattoos can be covered up or removed, but both of those processes are expensive and painful, so it's best to get it right the first time.

Unfortunately, there are many people out there giving out tattoos when they shouldn't, and there are also many people with terrible tattoo ideas. When a bad design and a bad artist mix, chaos is created. A tattoo fail is nothing short of embarrassing, but there are thousands out there to see and laugh at.

Reddit has a few subreddits dedicated to sharing and shaming the worst tattoos out there. The last thing anyone wants is to end up on one of these subreddits against their own will. So here are 24 terrible tattoo fails that someone is surely regretting by now.