43 Tattoo Artists Share the Most Shocking Client Requests They Regret Inked Forever
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I know a girl who tattoo’d a Wu-Tang ‘W’ on her upper thigh. Only after she finished and looked in the mirror did she realise that she had done it so that *she* could see the W but to everyone else it looks like an M. /r/noragrets.
A man came in to the shop my husband works at on his 18th birthday and got a pentagram with a goat on the front of his throat. First tattoo in a very visible spot that is satanic. I don’t know that kid but I’m pretty sure he’s regretting that decision. My husband refused to do this tattoo but someone else in the shop did.
Dude came in and asked me to tattoo a portrait of his girlfriend. Only the portrait was a duck face snapchat selfie. I jokingly suggested adding her holding the phone, taking the selfie, but he thought it was a great idea. They’ve only been dating 6 months and he didn’t tell her he was going to get it.
He came back a month later to add her name above it.
We had this lovely exchange student come into the studio for about a year to get all sorts of piercings and then the day finally came that he turned 18. So asked to sit down and a chat with him about what he wanted. Now the way he asked me made me think that it was going to be this big elaborate design.
He asked for a maths equation on his foot. He wanted 3+4=8.
I cautiously asked that he knew that was the incorrect answer to the equation. His response was “Oh yeah I know, I just think it’d make a funny tattoo.”
So yeah.
A friend of mine had the anorexia symbol tattooed on her neck. I know it’s supposed to be a symbol of recovery(I think, it’s hard to say with all the pro Ana stuff,) but now when she looks in the mirror all it does is remind her of her disorder and how horrible it makes her feel.
My buddy almost got a tattoo with a fist coming out of the ocean holding a stack of cash with change and sharks in the water.
Not me, but one of my artists.
he said a couple came in and the guy wanted his girlfriends name tattooed on his chest, like in big writing all across the top of his chest. him and the owner of the shop flat out said no. he told me they said no because he found out they had been dating for three months and the font/design he was wanting would’ve made a hard coverup. so they decided they didn’t want to do the tattoo since they knew it screamed “coming back in two months for a coverup”.
This was actually a post tattoo proclamation.
Woman came in with her boyfriend wanting his name with a crown over It on her wrist. I tried to talk her out of it but she insisted so, my general policy is to do the tattoo well, maybe with a thinner line weight so it’s easier to cover later, but at least it’ll be a good tattoo.
So, fast forward to after the tattoo, she’s all wrapped up, ready to go, and she asks me to look at another tattoo to see how much it would cost to cover.
Turns around, pulls up her shirt, and lo behold, there, across her lower back, in HUGE letters: some OTHER dude’s name, WITH A CROWN OVER IT!!!!!!!
WHAT!?!?!? Are you KIDDING ME????? WHY WOULD YOU WANT THAT???
AGAIN!!!!!
Omg…
Sometimes, these people, it can be hard y’all. Please tip your artist.
Oh, boy…I was traveling through Germany in my late teens and had a few too many liters of beer, when I stumbled into a tattoo shop demanding a flaming pentagram, held by a demon’s hand, with a banner of my name under it. I’d been carrying a sketch for MONTHS…the shop owner asked me,”Bist du dir SEHR sicher?” (Are you VERY sure?) and I kinda had a moment there….I said…sorta tentatively, yes, and he turned me away immediately….too drunk to consent. saved my life!
Not a tattoo artist, but I was told several different stories by one.
First was the guy that wanted the Playboy bunny tattooed on each of his cheeks. The artist in question will not do face or neck tattoos, so he would refuse, but the guy would come back every few weeks and ask again. Finally, he came back and asked for something else. Artist goes in the back to get the art, and when he comes back, guy is up front with a bucket of KFC, and there’s breading all over the floor. Not just that, but guy is walking all over it, grinding it into the floor. Artist says, you know what, I’ll do the bunnies for you after all. That guy is now known as chicken boy around town.
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