Thinking About A Tattoo? These 35 Pics Show How Tattoos Age Over Time

looks better aged given the subject

This still looks in good condition

I was half-expecting the wave to have crashed.

The black-scale stuff looks good.

I mean, it is small print very close together. You know it is going to bleed a little so this was a bad call, the tattoo artist should have told them this would happen. Maybe they did..

It's called a blowout. Happens when the needle goes too deep into the skin. Fingers are very hard to do, the skin is flimsy. It could happen the most skilled artists. It's just a poor choice in placement. That's all.

Just to make it clear - difference between those pictures is 3 years, 5 times change of hair color and some photoshop in both pictures. In real, my tattoo still looks good and almost the same. Good shot but not even close to reality.

Still looks okay

Interesting tribal design. A quick touch up should do the trick, that's the nice part about a tribal tattoo

Looks cute and I like it better aged.

A decomposed Michael Jackson...

The dark tone of the current one actually compliments the fact that it should represent an ancient Celtic symbol. Giving it a touch-up would be nice, but won't be all that necessary

that's really not that bad.

sunscreen, people. Reds and oranges will hot hold up to UV light.

Where on the body is this? Context would be great... Looks like the foot to me, which would make this fading make perfect sense.

Better this way

Looks like this shark is having "A whale of a time!" Laughing away :p

It's inside you mouth!! What would you expect?? ;-;

My example pic for everyone who wants a fingertattoo

why???

This one almost looks intentional, like the words really disappearing, like they do on the map.

Bad place and a bad quality of the ink

How much better cameras they've had 14 years ago!!! Unbelievable :)

I don't know why artists did tattoos on this parts of a boby. They know that the tatt fades out on feets and fingers

Wtf

Not sure what they expected when they decided to get a tattoo on their palm

Evern fresh bad work

finger tattoos are awful

This wasn't done well.

75% sure that this was in sharpie.

Anyone else think that some of these Aged so badly because they were backyard jobs??

This looks like pen or stick n poke

This looks like a stick and poke, always seem to fade

That's gotta be a done-at-home stick-n-poke tattoo... No way a professional tattoo artist would ink something that horrendous

Poor work to begin with

Yow! Make sure to find a good tattooist. It seems like maybe a tattoo artist would be best.

Looks like a prison tattoo to begin with.

That's a stick and poke tattoo that needed more runs to begin with. The fact that it's on the finger made it fade that much faster

It looks like it's faded away to start.

virtually nothing stays in palms and inner fingers.

So much of this article is BS. Some looks like prison that work, scratched work, you shouldn't claim this as tattoos, because tattoos are done professionally by trained specialists in hygienic settings. A lot of these obviously are not, even to me and I have no tattoos not am I am artist

This isn't a tattoo... it was done with a ballpoint.

Stick n poke not always what you see in #indie Tumblr

this was a stupid idea that was actioned

looks more like a henna tattoo!

If you use the best ink, this won't happen. Mine is 7 years old and still looks like it was done a month ago.

What an idiot.

Terrible to begin with.

Bad artist

Still doesn't know how to focus

What the heck is it?

that looked awful even when fresh

LOL, this is not a tatto. More likely it was written with a whiteboard marker.