50 Tattoo Fails That Prove Not Every Idea Belongs On Skin

The tattoos on this list are real doozies. It's generally true that the more your tattoo costs, the better the ink job will be. Novice artists usually charge somewhere between $80 and $120 an hour. A more established artist working for 5 to 10 years might take between $120 and $180 from you. And for a really experienced artist, you may have to splurge $150 to $250 or even more.

But bad tattoos aren't just a regular person's plight. Many famous people have pretty terrible ink on their bodies, and it just shows that money isn't always the problem. Sometimes, the idea can just be too ridiculous or too hard to execute. So, let's go through some of the most questionable tattoos that celebrities have gotten over the years, too.

Let's begin with some celebrity tattoo inception – rapper T-Pain's tattoo of the confused Jackie Chan meme. It's certainly silly, but T-Pain doesn't take himself or the tattoo too seriously. He explained that it's pretty funny to see people react to it after he puts up his hand when someone says something stupid to him.

"The hand just says it all: 'Stop talking to him,'" the rapper explained to Insider. T-Pain has around a dozen tattoos in total, and most of them are silly as well. One says, "You don't have to like me," alongside a Facebook "Like" button. He also has one on his neck that is pretty self-explanatory: "Tattoo."

Another celebrity who doesn't take his bad tattoos too seriously is Ryan Gosling. In an interview with The Guardian in 2007, Gosling said that people shouldn't take tattoos seriously at all. "A tattoo should never be meaningful because at a certain point you're going to hate it, and it might as well make you laugh."

His supposedly "failed" tattoo is one that looks like a chicken's foot, although it was supposed to be a monster's hand with a drop of blood in the shape of a heart. "A lot of people think it's a cactus. It's become a bit of an ink blot: you see what you want to," Gosling explained in a 2011 interview.