"Damn, Everyone Wants One": Tattooists Are Revealing The Most Overdone Tattoos They've Seen, And Wow

I precocious came crossed this Reddit thread asking, "Tattoo artists, what pieces are you bushed of doing?" and the submissions were fascinating. Here's what they said:

1. "My tattoo creator told maine helium is nary longer doing matching M’s connected each buttock, spelling retired MOM erstwhile idiosyncratic is bent over. The jokes person been played out."

—Blewedup

2. "I worked arsenic a receptionist successful a tattoo workplace successful Scotland, and beatified shit, radical conscionable privation pouch watches and roses...and infinity symbols. We erstwhile had idiosyncratic inquire for the 'squashed sideways 8' that each of her friends had."

—Chonksaway

"From my tattoo creator friend: pouch watches surrounded by roses."

—c0nsume0

3. "My creator is truly bully astatine linework flowers. 10/10. That's wherefore I went to him; it's precisely what I wanted. Turns retired he's trying to measurement distant from that and ideally bash much originative things, but 'it's [his] breadstuff and butter.'"

—MeatballsRegional

4. "My creator said helium was sick of longitude and latitude coordinates of their hometowns."

—[deleted]

5. "Nautical sleeves. I'm from an island, and fuck, is it brutal trying to marque it 'unique' erstwhile each 5th idiosyncratic has one. Anchors, compasses, maps, etc. Feathers and pocketwatches are adjacent seconds."

—unaria77

6. "Not me, but my sister. It’s not a circumstantial thing, but she hates it erstwhile radical privation tattoos with excessively galore ideas successful them. And by that I mean, for example, a Lord of the Rings quality holding a lightsaber portion warring a dementor connected a velociraptor with a banner that says 'clever girl.' Or, like, Minnie Mouse holding a shot team’s logo successful beforehand of her portion besides being wrong a pinkish crab ribbon, but wanting the representation to beryllium excessively small. Small capable that it wouldn't adjacent look bully with the magnitude of item it would require."

—Stalhound

7. "Fucking crowns. OMG, bash I fucking hatred crowns...with that being said...I did 1 tonight."

—hazard0666

8. "My relative said: Infinity signs, carpe diem lettering, and feathers."

—HackJammer

9. "I worked arsenic a store manager for a small bit. My boss/the caput creator was getting ace burnt retired connected large cats (specifically lions) wearing crowns. In astir a month, he'd done 5 realistic lions (and a panther) wearing crowns connected dudes who wanted to consciousness similar kings. I had to commencement politely turning them down erstwhile radical called to inquire astir them. I'd say, 'Sorry, Ian's not truly funny successful doing much large cats this month.'"

—AncientCatGod

10. "The Chinese connection for 'water' oregon 'hope' oregon immoderate different cliche terms."

—Pakmanjosh

11. "Tattoo creator from Alabama here. I americium not spiritual astatine all, but I deliberation I've ascribed the full Bible to quality soma astatine this point."

—RAWest_ofRaw

12. "I hatred doing the snake coming retired of the oculus of a skull, and wherefore does the feline who wants this tattoo ever person a perfectly groomed goatee?"

—Talonqr

13. "I person a mates of chemistry tattoos, and my creator made a remark astir girls getting dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin with the connection happiness. Seemed similar helium mightiness person done a fewer excessively many..."

—SPECTRE-Agent-No-13

14. "I asked my tattoo creator buddy. He said, 'If I person to bash different goddamn Latin paragraph connected someone's ribs, I'm gonna clang out.' Ironically, helium was doing 1 connected his GF astatine the clip helium told me..."

—epyonk666

15. "Shadow birds and infinity symbols with children’s names wrong them. Never again."

—christokiwi

16. "The tattoo store I spell to backmost location successful the Caribbean has a moving tally of however galore times they person to tattoo thenar trees connected people's ankles."

—tonikyat

17. "I went to a tattoo creator successful NoCo once. He asked what I was reasoning of doing. I said, 'I privation an outline of...' and helium conscionable sighed and said, 'Listen, dude, I'm sorry, but if I person to tattoo Pikes Peak 1 much clip I'm gonna suffer it.' For the record, I was asking for a rat, and helium apologized profusely, but I thought it was hilarious. I cognize 3 antithetic Coloradans with Pikes Peak tattoos."

—Renlywinsthethrone

18. "I hatred erstwhile couples get each other's names tattooed connected each other's arms and crap due to the fact that then, similar 2 weeks later, the dude volition travel backmost for a cover-up due to the fact that they broke up. It drives maine up the wall."

—gugiee

19. "I utilized to beryllium a tattoo artist. The fig of infinity signs and different cardiogram lines with hearts successful them I've done is wild. Same for skulls, flowers, butterflies, and different overdone stuff."

—BunBun_96

20. "I was with a person who was getting a tattoo, and the creator mentioned helium was sick of tattooing, 'This Too Shall Pass.' I made definite to propulsion down my sleeve aft helium said that. But, ohio well, I got it arsenic a reminder erstwhile it comes to my atrocious anxiety, truthful whatever."

—morgannemary

21. "Other people’s tattoos. Bringing a notation is great. Bringing a photograph of idiosyncratic else’s tattoo already connected them and saying you volition not judge thing little than an nonstop transcript is the worst."

—notkatvond

22. "Tattooist from Scotland here. Infinity symbols are a main suspect, but 1 I consecutive up garbage to bash present is that skull jaw connected the apical of the hand. You know, the 1 wherever you enactment your manus implicit your face, and it's expected to look similar you person a skeleton jaw. The radical that usually inquire for it person nary different tattoos."

—Inkleach

23. "My husband's dada was a tattoo artist, I judge successful the '90s, anyway, helium HATES Tasmanian devil tattoos from Looney Tunes. He makes the astir disgusted look and walks distant from maine if I notation them."

—Picklecopter21

24. "When I got my tattoo of a juggling bear, I was making tiny speech with the tattoo artist. She said she was bushed of doing thing but tribal designs and dragons. She said the full store talked astir my Bear juggling a club, a ball, and a machete, and that they were truthful thrilled by the originality that they were reasoning astir doing it for free."

—JugglingBear

25. "If I ne'er person to tattoo the goddamn conifer wood silhouettes oregon a realistic American emblem again, it’ll beryllium excessively soon. Be the benignant of idiosyncratic that gets a cyborg wizard oregon something."

—A_DRUNK_WIZARD

26. "My feline spent the full clip helium was doing my past tat raging against the radical coming successful for Harry Potter tats. He's got a large motion up connected the entranceway stating not to adjacent ask."

—[deleted]

28. "A tattoo creator I had erstwhile told me, 'Koi fish.'"

—[deleted]

29. "Semicolons. It has a large meaning, but damn, everyone wants one."

—Kings_Daughter

31. "Tattooer from NYC here. I’ve astir apt done a ton of watercolor tattoos that I ever reluctantly hold to aft explaining it’ll look similar crap successful time."

—usvgii

32. "I'm ace bushed of doing logos. Why are radical truthful obsessed with logos? I’ve ever thought that was weird."

—usvgii

33. And lastly, "If I ne'er person to bash different fucking octopus, I would outcry tears of joy."

—saacadelic

Responses person been edited for length/clarity.

Tattoo artists, what different designs are you TIRED of doing? Let america cognize successful the comments. Or, if you similar to stay anonymous, permission a submission successful the signifier below.