There are a lot of people out there with really beautiful tattoos. Tattoos are a kind of art. Artists have to be incredible at their craft, steady, skilled, and confident. Being a good tattoo artist is no easy task, it definitely is not for everyone. Unfortunately though there are a lot of bad tattoo artists out there, and even more unfortunately so, people go to them. To be fair, some of the ideas people come up with for tattoos are just inevitably bad. There's no saving an idea or a sketch that was doomed from the beginning.

When a bad idea and a bad artist get together, though, well that's just a recipe for disaster. It's like some people forget that tattoos are pretty permanent, and tattoo fails are hard to reverse. Sure they can be covered or painfully removed, but the best idea is to just avoid them in the first place. Here are 25 tattoos that are horribly and regrettably permanent. These are tattoos that should never have existed in the first place, but at least they're unique.