Tons of people have tattoos these days, young and old. They can be used to memorialize something, like a person, a place, or a pet. They can also be used to just express some individualism and creativity. Whatever someone gets a tattoo for, the important thing is to get it from someone who knows what they're doing. A tattoo can go from great to terrible so easily and so quickly, and being left with a tattoo fail is just embarrassing.

Tattoo fails last quite literally forever, and if someone does want it gone it's expensive and painful. So it's best just to get it done right the first time, unlike the people on Reddit's tattoo shaming subreddits. These subreddits are full of tattoos that went wrong and ones that were destined to fail from the start. Here are 25 terribly executed tattoos, both found in the wild and submitted by self-aware people doing a little self-shaming.