People just don’t get fake tattoos, but it does seem to be a popular misconception. I can’t tell you how many people have asked me if mine are real, as if I’d go to elaborate lengths for a fake. Plus, you can see splotches around it where the “artist” wiped the excess ink off.
Take a look around, there are far more terrible tattoos like this than there are good ones. People just aren’t very careful about marking their bodies for life.
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Good lord.
As if the design wasn’t bad enough to start with, it looks like the “artist” free handed the lettering. Just look at the rt in supporting. It appears as if there was an attempt at correction by going back over the letters, like someone would do while writing a grocery list in ink. :eek:
I was just joking. I personally like tattoos, if they are good ones. But all of these threads always seem to get people in them who bash all tattoos in general.
The lettering is horrible, but I can ignore it for some reason.
I cannot ignore those marks that are supposed to resemble leopard spots.
They are horrid. If I had trypophobia, I’d be screaming right now.
At least it’s on her back and not in a place where she’d have to look at it every day.
Anyone doing her doggy style would need a towel to put over it.
I kind of thought, (hoped, actually) that you were just being snarkastic. 
It a was sort of “knee-jerk” (and somewhat, “jerkish”) response, and I apologize if I was too aggressive and offended, in any way. 
Now that’s, just wrong! (Yet, not untruthful!) :eek: 
I see worse tattoos every weekend in the summer.
When’s your parole date?
Close – it’s “Swagaggering the fighters & Admiring the subtitles and Honoring the…”
Eh, I got nothin’.
Yes, you do. The start of your entry for next year’s contest.
Oddly enough, just last week I sent in my first entry for next year’s contest.
I love communist blather!
Oof. That rings pretty true as Communist blather, but if anything it’s too short and doesn’t have enough Capitalized Nouns.
And you’ve reminded me that it should have ended with at least four exclamation points.
And I am working on a theme for my entries this year – densely incomprehensible academic writing. I have now been a judge of the contest for a couple of years and I’ve never seen a single entry in this genre. (FYI – I do not get to vote on my own entries, and they are sent out to the judges with no identification of the authors).
the scrolly letters are a nice trailer trash touch. I should know…I ASPIRE to be trailer trash…
I agree, they make it look much worse (and that’s a tricky thing to accomplish, with the wonderful lettering). But I’m pretty sure they are supposed to be stylized women’s faces.
Those spots might, in fact, be breasts.
They all have black borders that make them look like pink faces with accompanying hair (in various styles). Unless the black is the only real tattoo part and the pink is just some kind of bruising or inflammation … it’s hard to tell what with the general smeared look the whole thing has.
That is some very unfortunate work. Aside from the fact that the person doing it didn’t sketch it out beforehand to see if it’d fit/work, they got distracted while actually tattooing it on. Yikes.
Technically, no. If you’re a licensed tattoo artist and doing “kitchen tattoos”, if caught you can get into some major trouble, as licensing for tattoo shops generally doesn’t include homes due to health code ordinances. This doesn’t stop the average “scratcher” from finding folks who’ll come to their house for tattoos. In Florida, you need to be under the supervision of a physician of some sort to have a legal tattoo shop, and may need more certifications and/or inspections depending upon your jurisdiction. The majority of the statewide stuff is handled by the biomedical folks.
It’s real, and I’ve seen stuff that’s as bad as that before. The fun part about having worked in a public library is that you see a lot more tattoos than you think you will; some are really good work, and some are not. One of the worst ones I had seen was fresh and of the same quality as this one, but smaller. The guy had just gotten it done, and mentioned he had it done at the flea market tattoo shop nearby. So proud of the work, though it was not so awesome and the placement was crooked. :smack:
One major mistake that makes the lettering on a lot of tats suck ass is you need to stretch the skin while working, so the lettering tends to get distorted unless you are VERY skilled - a buddy of mine tattoos for a living, and he practiced on chamois [shammys] to get the how of stretching down pat. You may notice if you go to a professional tat convention [or see lots of pictures] some tat artists can actually do excellent calligraphy on peoples hides. He said it took him at least 50 hours of practice over a couple weeks to get where he could do good simple lettering, if it is some stupid intricate lettering like fraktur or gothic he practices on a chamois to make sure he can get it right.
That is also the source of some of the more horrible baby faces … that and not enough practice with shading.
I would never get someone’s face on me, I prefer more neutral art. Mine is a combination of solar flare for shape and peacock for coloration. My next one is going to be based on a falcon, but I have not decided on coloring yet. It is going on the other wrist. I am also planning a small blue lotus on my breast bone just under the notch of my collarbones. Something like this.
