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Inking someone is just as big of a responsibility as getting your tattoo ideas inked. I mean, if someone is determined to get a permanent mark on their body, the one who is making it happen has to be skilled enough to make sure the tattoo design doesn't become a regret of a lifetime. But that's not always the case. A good way to test if a tattoo artist did a good job is doing a face swap with a real-life object it is meant to represent, and some tattoo fails are so hideous, it's hilarious. Bored Panda has compiled a second list of these face swapped bad tattoos (you can find the first one here), and it's just as priceless. From a cartoony version of Avril Lavigne to a tiger that looks like it was drawn by a two-year-old, these funny tattoo designs will definitely make you think twice before letting someone pick you with a needle and ink. And while we do feel sorry for the people who got these, we're also incredibly grateful it wasn't us. Scroll down to check out the worst tattoos ever and upvote your favorites!
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#1
Oh Holy Jesus
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#2
Two Brothers
Final score:
97points
LOttawa 7 years ago
I think that in this circumstance, we have to re-think that saying...
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Karla Littke 7 years ago
Both idiots. The guy giving the tattoo and the moron letting him do it. SMDH
#3
Elvis Pursley
#4
Predator In The Water
Final score:
95points
Christina Sersif 7 years ago
I'm assuming this started out as a penis picture and quickly escalated. (look at the nose)
#5
Roar
Final score:
90points
d r e a m w o r l d 7 years ago
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, severely deformed in a fire...
#6
Oh No
Final score:
90points
#7
Avril Livagne
Final score:
87points
Jessica Gunn 7 years ago
The art work is pretty darn cool! And, it might help if she were actually posed in the same angle when putting the tattoo on the photo
porcupine 7 years ago
How is this a “bad tattoo?” It’s good work and someone did a nice job on it.
StrangeStars 7 years ago
In some aspects (such as the shading) are good, yes. But the thing is...it looks nothing like her. And the colours are off. The tattoo could definitely be improved.
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#8
Angelina Jelly
Final score:
79points
Kiahna 7 years ago
It wasn't an entirely flattering picture either. Could've made a better photo choice.
Magdalina777 7 years ago
Was a picture teetering just on the edge of silly/derpy and sexy I'd say. She was just about pulling it over to the sexy side on the pic but it isn't exactly surprising that didn't carry over well to a tattoo...
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#9
A Girl I Went To High School With Has This On Her Upper Thigh
Final score:
76points
Wynand 7 years ago
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. Everyone likes birds. The question is, do we love the lesser striped Koalatiger?
Gergely Szász 7 years ago
this one may be a "before and after" tattoo. originally a baboon was depicted, in my opinion.
#10
What Even Is This Creature? A Were-Bat-Wolf-Bear?
Final score:
76points
boredfox 7 years ago
For a were-bat-wolf-bear? Sure, pretty decent job done here.
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#11
Britney, Is That You?
Nadine 7 years ago
This one's actually not SOOOOO bad! The tattoo at least captured her vacant expression.
Nadine 7 years ago
I mean from the original photos of when she shaved her head. Not that she always has a vacant expression, lol!
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Brandon Fretwell 7 years ago
Yeah it's spot on but... why would you get bald headed break down Britney tattooed on you?
Jessica Gunn 7 years ago
This one is done well!! Poor photo choice to get tattooed on you....bet she'd be....flattered???
#12
Merler Merloe
Final score:
53points
Alexia Harrison 7 years ago
I think the tattooist had a few too many of them
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Happiness is Hippo 7 years ago
It looks like the tattoo “artist” drew the face outline then decided to do another one a bit bigger around it. You can even see where her neck was. All round awfulness!
Inga Ko (Submission author) 7 years ago
of course it is on purpose, Kiahna. Those tattoos are so bad that they definitely can't reflect the real people (or their real names)
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In Real Life Thom Yorke Has Two Eyes
Final score:
49points
#14
Morlin Morloe
Final score:
46points
Carmean Armendariz 7 years ago
more like Dr. Frank-N-Furter! google it if you don't know who that is.
#15
Hey Girl, I Heard You Like Bad Tattoos
Final score:
45points
Patricia Stilwell 7 years ago
If that's supposed to be Ryan Gosling, I think the tat artist was rather generous
#16
Couldn't Tell The Difference
Final score:
44points
#17
Minimalistic Baby
Final score:
44points
#18
Lyon
Final score:
41points
Ged Maybury 7 years ago
Surely that's a diagram out of a surgery manual? Or a badly finished nip & tuck? Both?
#19
Sweet Baby
Final score:
41points
GFSTaylor 7 years ago
I was just thining it looks like Wallace Shawn taking a c**p.
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Mark Abenstein 6 years ago
If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you aint gonna make with anyone, anyhow
#20
Cirey Mylus
Final score:
38points
Marissa Wolff 2 years ago
This tattoo actually looks more like Demi Lovato with a blonde pixie Bob.
#21
This "Artist's" Work Comes Across My FB Feed Daily, Quite The Treasure Trove
Final score:
37points
#22
Oh, Man
Final score:
36points
#23
Poor Eagle
GiantSpaceTiger 7 years ago
If you cover the middle of it with your finger, it looks like two birds facing one another!
Spooky Tooth 7 years ago
that would look better if they added something in the middle for sure
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Hanna Hella 7 years ago
That is the worst place to put it. Can't get over the feather boobs, my eyes my eyes!!
#24
Rean Gorsling
Final score:
32points
Kaisu Rei 7 years ago
I think it's a spider. Still makes no sense though!
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hmm... I'm not sure it looks like him... "ok, how about I write his name around it?" excellent.
#25
Ellen Dereneres
Final score:
32points
Danielle Evans 7 years ago
Because people have celebrities as icons, inspiration, they look up to them or outright love em. Kinda obvious. Then others it's just for a lol but eh.
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Marissa Wolff 2 years ago
Actually....this one looks really good. It's hard for me to recognise this tattoo as anyone else but Ellen.
#26
Poor, Little Baby
Final score:
32points
Neha Jawale-Bhorge 7 years ago
Coz babies that young dont have prominent features and look like potatoes when drawn like this..
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#27
Yoba
Final score:
31points
#28
Found This Nightmare On Instagram
Final score:
30points
itsyaboybillybob 7 years ago
except for the hand, its not that bad. I mean, its a s**t tattoo but its not that badly drawn
Luke Gibson 6 years ago (edited)
I think they're trying to claim the heads too thin, but they're too stupid to realize that it's the perspective of the arm causing it.
#29
Mom?
#30
Found This Gem Today
Final score:
29points
#31
Hmm, Joker?
Final score:
27points
#32
Marlin Menroe
Final score:
27points
#33
Christopher Walken
Final score:
27points
Christine Cumming 7 years ago
I dont know why but I really like this one and I'm a Christopher Walken fan too.
#34
Baby Girl
Final score:
26points
#35
Wow
Final score:
25points
Anna Thouvenin 7 years ago
Probably no one famous. I search for the pic and found it but there was no name attached
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Linda Matheny 7 years ago
Obviously all of these tattoo "Artists " have blindfolds on after they smoked crack. That would make me want to go home and get a sharp knife to slice that off my arm
#36
Alrighty Then
Final score:
25points
stellermatt 7 years ago
you know if you had to draw someone from memory, no reference images. this is what you'd come up with. you'd get the points in pictionary, but not so much as a tattoo...
Ged Maybury 7 years ago
A bit of colour-balance... PLEEEESE! This could have worked. (If it was green)
#37
Poor Lady
#38
I Have No Words
Final score:
23points
#39
Dot Work Seems Easy!
Final score:
22points
#40
Lord Monstermort
Final score:
21points
Claire A. 7 years ago
Or grow his hair, or wear a wig....just, anything other than what's going on right now.
Load More Replies... StrangeStars 7 years ago
possibly the stupidest tattoo I have ever seen. A) why would you get the dark lord tattooed on your head, for gods sake? OF ALL THINGS and B) don't people research their artists before obliging a lifelong predicament? I mean...this one looks like he just walked into the nearest shop and was like, hell yeah I want a tattoo dude gimme one
Pandykinz 7 years ago
Also, shouldn't it be facing the other way so that when he's standing up it's towards the back so people can see it? It's like people that get their forearm tattoos facing their body...
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I Don't Know What Is More Terrifying: The Real Chucky Or This Tattoo
Jessica Gunn 7 years ago
"Come over to my house girl! I just made a tattoo needle!...oh, and I art stuff real good like!"
#42
Why The Baby
Final score:
20points
Patricia Stilwell 7 years ago
Always with the babies. Don't you have a PHONE? Take a PICTURE!!!
#43
The Sailor
Final score:
19points
#44
Will Ferrell
Final score:
18points
#45
Beauty
Final score:
18points
John Bennick 7 years ago
Is that the only thing you see that's a problem?
Load More Replies... StrangeStars 7 years ago
Actually not a bad tattoo...and before start hating, just listen. Look at it. the shading, the linework and the realism is good. The thing that makes it weird is the colouring and the fact she's pulling her headback to release a torrent of triple chins. Change that, and...it's decent.
#46
Found This Butterface On A Local Shop's Instagram
Final score:
16points
John Bennick 7 years ago
What the hell are you smoking, and where can the rest of us score some?
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#47
A Lot Going On Here In This Child Portrait
Chris M Smalley 4 years ago
Wasnt Laura Dern in that movie with this kid playing Eric Stoltz playing Rocky Dennis ? I think so. Ooo im thinking of Cher? Nm
#48
Poor Baby
Janet Allison 7 years ago
I know that every tattoo artist has to start out somewhere but this is not art. Whoever did this is not an artist. They are a fraud.
#49
Michael Jackinson
Christopher Oetker 7 years ago
This one is just generally terrible but more so because its michael jackson rather than the fact that its a tattoo
Autumn Walton 6 years ago
no it looks like him after all his plastic surgeries and stuff. the ugly michael jackson
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What do you think ?
Wim Cossement 6 years ago (edited)
What kind of an idiot gets a celebrity's face tattood on their body?
Craig Nonya 5 years ago
I think it's probably a bad idea to get a tattoo of anyone's face.
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Birma Gustafsson 7 years ago
These ... "tattoos" ... are down right EVIL! Extremely funny for us, who doesn't have to carry them around, but who MADE them? I wanted a tattoo, but now I don't know ...
Wim Cossement 6 years ago (edited)
What kind of an idiot gets a celebrity's face tattood on their body?
Craig Nonya 5 years ago
I think it's probably a bad idea to get a tattoo of anyone's face.
Load More Replies... Birma Gustafsson 7 years ago
These ... "tattoos" ... are down right EVIL! Extremely funny for us, who doesn't have to carry them around, but who MADE them? I wanted a tattoo, but now I don't know ...
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