Tattoo typo hall of shame

Putting “Cumslut” in as my first name and “Bottom 4 Lyfe” as my second name was fun.

Not a misspelling, but just an awesomely off-the-wall tattoo.

Well, that’s not very nice. Everybody loves Raymond.

You would think Ray would keep his wife under better control than that. Letting her get a tattoo…pfft!

Do you have the frunky frunky frow!

I LOVE stories/pictures of awful tattoos. There was recently a whole book of them released that I will eventually get around to buying. I’ve seen that #4 before. I really feel bad for the guy. He was probably just trying to do something nice in the emotional disaster phase following his wife’s (obviously untimely) death. Fucking moron tattoo artist should’ve manned up and admitted he wasn’t going to be able to pull it off.

From the comments:

Tattoos are remarkably easy to photoshop, by the way. I photoshopped a tattoo onto myself and posted it onto my Myspace page once. I put it up with a bunch of other very obvious photoshops thinking people would realize I was just showing off my mad shop skillz*, but EVERYBODY thought it was real. A bunch of people told me they thought it was a photoshop at first but then realized it was real because they could see the bruising. I was like, “you think that can’t be photoshopped? :confused:
*that is a joke. I suck at photoshop which is why when I make something that accidentally turns out decent I like to show it off

What’s the book? I love them too. But I want truly epic bad tattoos, not just sloppy ones (the ones at that site all qualify, but some other “bad tattoo” site’s I’ve seen are overrun with simply mediocre tattoos) .

That sounds like something my former co-worker (the one who wound up in prison in Singapore for five years for pot possession) would do. He got a large tattoo across his back of a world map, done in outline. His plan was then to fill in each country as he visited it. Not a bad idea, except a) the quality was pitiful, and b) the tattoo artist left off Japan, the guy’s home country.

Plus there was that whole prison sentence putting a crimp in his world travel plans.

No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever

The reviews up to a couple weeks after release were unanomously raving, but there are a couple bad ones on the front page now.

I’m imagining Barbara Feldon (as I am wont to do anyway, but I digress) if Don Adams’ character had been Frank Smart:

99: “Oh, Frunk!”

For making a good fake tattoo my friend used black sharpie and then painted over it with clear finger nail polish.

You could post a picture of your face and people would say it was photoshopped. It’s a common troll in many forums.

No, they will call it “a bad photoshop” :slight_smile:

I don’t think it’s even necessarily a troll as much as everybody wants to be the one who spots the hoax. It’s always hilarious when people are calling something a bad photoshop and it turns out to be real (it has happened here on the dope before.)

I had a friend in high school that had a pretty bad one. We played basketball together and he would often go shirtless. He had his last name tattooed as a nameplate on his upper back. In really well-done, beautiful Old English letters: Garbor. It was really nice, except his last name is Harbor. So, there he is with his name misspelled in a tattoo on his back. What could he possibly do? Apparently he could put an “X” through the G and have an H tattooed above it. It was really hard not to say anything, fortunately he is bigger than me(which is saying a lot), that really helped me keep my mouth shut.

How the hell did that happen?

If I were a tattoo artist, I would ask people exactly once, “Are you sure that’s what you want it to say?”

Legally change his name to Garbor?

I’m not entirely sure, I never asked. As per my comment above it seemed safer that way. One may presume that the tattooist may have misheard him and, knowing the friend in question, he was quite possibly under the influence of some mind-altering substance. It definitely elicited a double-take the first time I saw it. I really couldn’t believe someone could mess up that bad.