30 Most Embarrassing Tattoos of All Time

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20a

  • ‘What didn’t killed me made me stronger!’ Well, it certainly didn’t make you smarter. This is like a bad English-as-a-second-language tattoo.

  • At least it isn’t somewhere noticeable, like your collarbone. Oh, wait …

19

19a

  • Somehow a reputable tattoo artist committed ‘Living is the Stronges Drug’ to this poor woman’s arm.

  • I think all involved must have been on some pretty strong drugs to allow this mistake to slip by unnoticed.

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18a

  • Here a westerner asks for ‘courage’ but gets a serve of chicken noodle soup instead.

  • It’s a warning for anyone pretentious enough to entertain permanently marking their skin with a language they don’t know.

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17a

  • This person either sought to immortalise their hatred for Taylor Swift or asked the tattoo artist for a Chinese character that would sum up their personality.

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16b

  • This poor woman. Presumably she wanted a tattoo to mark her love for the vibrant sweet pea flower. A very sweet and wholesome idea – even if she chose a tramp stamp to convey it.

  • Unfortunately, an embarrassing misspelling gives her tatt an entirely different meaning. Or maybe I have this wrong; maybe she has a urine fetish and wants to tell the world about it? Who knows?

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15d

  • This viral hashtag sounds like the title for a cool James Bond film, but is actually just the annoying battlecry of kids who believe life should be maximally enjoyed – without any of that pesky ‘taking responsibility for your mistakes’ crap.

  • Done something a sane person would regret? Say YOLO and take pride in it over social media! Getting a #YOLO tattoo is one the most YOLO things a person can do. It’s lucky pop culture isn’t fickle and ephemeral. I mean, these already-dated references will always be cool, right?

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14a

  • Poor misguided fool … No, not for believing in a higher power, for opting for a cursive font that makes J’s resemble F’s.

  • Only God can, err, fudge them, but the entire internet is free to judge them.

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13a

  • You know how teenage rednecks often go through an anarchist phase? Well, this one got a swastika tattoo during his – I guess because he thought rubbing people the wrong way would be funny?

  • This tattoo is what happens when said idiot grows up and realises making light of Nazism isn’t funny, so tries to make amends by turning it into some abstract art design. Resounding failure.

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12a

  • Another graduate from the YOLO school of life. No regrets for this woman … except for not running that spellchecker before dropping several hundred dollars on ink. Opps!

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11a

  • A misspelling even a third-grader would catch and a weird anthropomorphic peppermint … Could this tattoo get any more frightening?

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