While tattoos can be a great addition to someone's life, tattoo fails are a terrible one. Tattoos are permanent, that's like the whole thing about them, so they should be given a lot of careful thought before getting one.

Some people genuinely do not care about what tattoos are on their body and just get them spontaneously, which, good for them. Many people, however, expect something beautiful to come from getting a tattoo, especially if it's a memorial piece for a person or pet.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of tattoo fails out there, and they are featured on Reddit's many dedicated tattoo shaming subreddits. Sometimes it's the fault of the tattoo-getter … a bad design is doomed from the get-go. Other times, it's an overly ambitious artist who probably shouldn't have attempted the piece at all.

Whatever it may be, they are embarrassing and hard to erase. Here are just 25 of the millions of bad tattoos out there to sigh at today.