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For thousands of years, humans have marked their bodies with permanent designs known as tattoos. They have varied from plain, sometimes elaborate, other times symbolic, but always personal, and these inkings have served as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of religious beliefs, adornments and even forms of punishment.

No wonder people’s fascination with tattoos remains stronger than ever. While there’s still some stigma about them in our society, a more progressive approach to our bodies, identity, and self-expression is emerging.

At the same time, some people are slightly more skeptical towards body art. They even claim that particular designs, symbols, and body areas where a tattoo is placed can be read as a warning sign. “What sort of tattoo on someone is a major red flag for you?” someone asked on Ask Reddit, and we looked at what people had to say. Let us know if you agree or disagree with them in the comments!

We also reached out to Alex Alvarado, a tattoo artist at Santo Cuervo studio, and Adam, the studio manager at Vagabond Tattoo based in East London, who shared a couple of insights into tattoo art from the experts’ perspective.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones The Confederate Flag is literally a red flag

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According to tattoo artist Alvarado, you can tell a lot about a person from their tattoos. “I’d venture to say you could even guess nationality based on what style of tattoos they have, but the most obvious answer to me would be how much they have (or haven’t) invested in their tattoos,” he said.

Alvarado argues that this isn’t only monetary investment but also in terms of research, time, and dedication. “Getting a good tattoo is sometimes a very multi-faceted process that could even include travelling to see a specific artist. Things like this can tell you how knowledgeable, patient and committed a tattooed person can be.”

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Any kind of hate symbol/speech is going to be a no from me.

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Sioux White
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a racist and then turns part of its skin black to show you its a racist. Mf morons

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NoDak Pirate
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree if it's a racist image. But what if, like you, it's that persons last name. Or something else and this picture is taken out of context. That's the same as judging someone by race, gender, age or any other distinction.

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Kevin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You know racism doesn't just mean whites hating blacks.

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Seth Glenn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is simply having the word white tattooed on you racist for all we know that can be his last f*****g name or just simply the fact that he's proud that he's white doesn't make that your f*****g racist. Every other race out there is proud to be the race that they are

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, maybe it's a name, but that mirror and eagle on top, as well as the eagle poster on the wall makes me think otherwise: (

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Jerry Mathers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe this is a reminder of the color of flag they need to show if they were ever confronted.

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Michael Largey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe he just can't remember the name of the race he belongs to and jotted it down just to keep the info handy.

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David Motley
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been in some places where there's a lot of different people of different ethnicities and hands down the most racist people I've ever encountered are people of color 💯 facts!!!

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Bryan With A Why
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So now just claiming to be white is hate speech? Do you not hear how racist you sound? What about those who tattoo "brown power" or "black power" on their body, would you consider that hate speech? This doesn't even say white power, it just says "white" in ironically black ink lol

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*sigh* Do I really want to start a debate with you? Not really, but... Considering how especially the Nazis, but even before the white Europeans acted and thought that white skin made them superior to other skin-colors. That with dark skin comes a small brain and no sophistication, no culture and nothing remarkable. So Europeans (white) went all over the world and because they did have superior weapons, they murdered and destroyed and abducted and enslaved people with darker skin and rubbed out their culture. Not even talking about more modern, problematic behavior. In general, if someone says they are proud to be the color that has caused so much misery and harm in the world s highly suspicious towards at least toying with racist ideas. the difference between black power and white power is that Whites, especially in the US but kinda all over the world ALREADY have the power. Black Power says "we, with this color, want to have power!" while "White Power" says "we deserve all power"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This picture is nothing more than a word. Where is the racism in the word "WHITE"?? It's in your ignorant mind!!!

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April
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly who cares? The people writing this s**t are clearly liberal! If it said black pride it would be ok.

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Angie Bunch
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My old man has same tat almost but it is also his last name nothing about it is racist at all come on give this guy some benefit of doubt here ! You never know .

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RoseAnne Hutchence
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These days, it seems we're becoming increasingly fragmented and the loudest voices in the human herd are seeming to take precedence at the expense of (really) the majority (of us white folks). I'm a little pissed, not apologetic about the colour of my skin, but we seem to be taking the blame for every friggin thing that's gone wrong with everyone else's life.

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Leslie Coomber
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sioux White,you need to grow up.It's people like you who make everything about racism.You,yourself are a bigger racist than this moron getting white tattooed on his arm.

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Sherry Shoup
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So the word white is racist, I will have to tell our friends that have the last name of white that

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Madeleine Leidy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People that get racist tattoos are annoying they try their best to double the price thinking you'll change your mind nopppe get the f out

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Kay Young
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've had a few stepdads who did some hard prison time & some would claim to not be racist yet have all the prison swazie tats.one said he was only racist in prison cuz he had to be. I had an interesting childhood......

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

free speech. make us all proud. at least we know wut jobs he WONT be getting

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Jessica Julian
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"LIGHT BEIGE" would've been more accurate...(this is the likely comment I would make to such a asinine tat)

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Mary Satterfield
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

White could possibly be their last name? I never judge a book by its cover, it happens to me all the time and it's sad.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Takes a special kind of trash artist to do hate symbols and speech.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It could be his last name, but I doubt it my last name is white but I would neverrrr get it tatted on me lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’d ask this person if he keeps forgetting he’s white…so he has a tattoo to remind him? 🤣🤣🤣

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just saw a guy yesterday that had "white power" tattooed down his calfs...f****n moron Edit: literally just like the next picture 🤣 smh

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so obviously photoshopped tho that I'm not sure if it's real. Gross if it is of course..

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This guy learn a word from preschool and decide to make a tattoo so he'll never forget the actual color of the clouds.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Obvious? Maybe. Hateful? Hardly. Hippocrates come in all forms. Rotflmfao. If you're pointing your finger you have 3 pointing back at you....

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Moezzzz
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did he need to be reminded? I don't get the point of this tattoo?

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Lily Francis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't believe in racism but I do believe in prejudice, ignorance and hatred and they're all learned behaviors and they're all destructive. The real problem is hate may harm others but it only destroys you and keeps you from being happy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cant have white pride...but we got asian pride...black pride....gay pride....trans pride.........but dont have that bad guy white pride.......maybe we should make another month pride for some other so called MINORITY........ur a minority cuz this aint ur country

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not your country either, it's everyone's country who lives in it. So sorry your fantasy of an All White, Straight America didn't pan out for ya 😂

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Frankly, I only judge people for racist tattoos. I don't care otherwise nor do I care where people put their tattoos.

I do tend to judge people with bad tattoos but solely because it generally means a) you didn't care to do your research or b) you're a cheap f**k. But I try not to just for the few people out there that got scammed by someone saying they were something they weren't.

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And when it comes to the tattoo trends, Alvarado said that there are a multitude of them going on right now and it would depend on where you live, mostly.

“Custom lettering seems really popular at the moment. I’ve seen a lot of very delicate, very intricate Korean-style tattoos lately, and on the opposite end of that, there’s a lot of heavy blackouts going on as well, but it seems all styles seem to be flourishing and being taken to the next level all over the world.” He added that he is mainly a realism artist “and the art I see on social media nowadays usually leaves me in total awe!”

#4

People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Childhood characters doing something unsavory. Like Winnie the Pooh in a dominatrix outfit. Decapitated Pikachu. Something like that.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones "Only God can judge me".

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Anything political or weed-related. It tells me that has become their identity, basically.

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And when it comes to tattoos that seem to be out of fashion, Alvarado said that from what he can see, the '90s tribal style is definitely on its way out. “The majority of cover-ups we’ve done at my studio usually involve some sort of tribal that the client got ages ago when they were ‘cool’ but no longer reflects their taste and personality. But with trends being so cyclical, who knows, maybe tribal will come back in a big way soon!”

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Baby’s faces, find it really unnerving, especially on the calf or top of arm. Why does it keep looking at me?

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Adorable photograph of a sweet sleeping baby on the left. The love child of Gollum and Sloth on the right.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Anything in a language they don’t speak/have a connection to

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, big regret for me there. Being 19 and stupid, I would seriously like to get rid of it, totally screams whitetrash while at the beach now 😐

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#9

The number 88. It's used in the Aryan Brotherhood as an abbreviation for Hail Hitler (explanation: H is the 8th letter of the alphabet)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was unaware of this and had an idea to incorporate 88 (Year I was born) into one I wanted. The artist was like yaaaaa I'm not doing that and that's when I was explained the meaning. Man I'm glad he said something!

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Meanwhile, Adam, the studio manager at Vagabond Tattoo parlor, argues the opposite. He believes that tattoos don't really say anything. “There are so many different styles out there at the moment and it's so varied that you have people with different styles tattooed on them.” Having said that, Adam added that “one thing I would say is that if someone has a body suit or a large-scale piece, then they are a committed, dedicated person!”

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones A huge American flag. I'm sorry.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Celebrity. Any kind

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When asked what kind of tattoos have been trending lately, Adam said it’s tribal tattoos that are having a comeback at the moment, but in a new form. “I've seen lots of biomechanical-esque tribal recently, so that may be a new trend.” Moreover, Adam said that “the 'fine line' style is probably the most popular but I don't think anything is the least fashionable right now,” when asked about tattoos which have gone out of style.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones “Loyalty” The people I see with this tattoo, they usually don’t appear to be the loyal type

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Bible/gospel quotes are an immediate no from me

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Sort: Exes names

Placement: Face

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As the Covid-19 pandemic is over and people are getting back to their normal lives, you may wonder if the initial pandemic-induced surge in people’s interest in getting some ink is over. However, Adam said they have been pretty consistent throughout the pandemic and post-pandemic. “I'd say once we came out of each lockdown was the busiest time period with people wanting to get a tattoo,” he added.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Anything misspelled.

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eyeball. As in having your eyeball colored permanently. No, just no. Use cool contacts. Dont take the chance of blinding yourself.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People will have ink injected into the whites of their eyes to change the color. It sounds like a terrible idea to me.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Tear drop under the eye

A teardrop under the eye, if just an outline, Usually means the wearer has suffered pain, or more likely caused pain, or served significant time, for their associates (gang). Perhaps 15 years. A filled- in solid teardrop Usually means the wearer has caused death for their associates (gang).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought it meant they made bad choices. I have seen it some quite young people

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And now that the summer heat is sizzling and everyone’s getting into the beach mood, more people than ever are willing to get themselves a piece of body art. “Summer is always peak tattoo season! As soon as you start showing more skin, then all you see is the empty space,” Adam told us. However, he added that it's probably the worst time to get a tattoo in terms of healing, but it's definitely their busiest time of the year.

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Brand logos of any kind. If you like any corporation enough to get their logo tattooed on you, I’m guessing we have some major ideological differences.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People often do it when companies offer free food in return. Not that that justifies it.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Comedy and tragedy masks. First three people I hooked up with had them in places you couldn’t see with clothes on.

Apparently I have a type.

If I unwrap another human and find one, I may faint.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones if a man has tattoo's of naked women

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones my coworker married another coworker.. Prior to that wedding.. he asked her to prove to her how much she loved him. So she got a tattoo on her neck with his last name on it.--BIG artistic letters.

Now.. mind you.. this man is a douchebag and a half. and they have "issues" in their marriage.. that tattoo just proves how much self love she had for HERSELF.. which is absolutely 0.

Now before any of you comment let me tell you what she is like. She's very introverted and never speaks up. this guy controls what she eats, what she wears, and he has no shame in telling us to shut the eff up, if we stick up for her... and HR doesn't do anything about it.

This girl still sticks with him. When we ask her why.. she gets quiet and says.. she doesn't have a car and begs us not to get involved.

SO seeing their partner's name on a very clearly visible area while the partner does not have any tatz is a major red flag.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When a tattoo is done under these circumstances it's basically a brand of ownership. I won't judge anyone with name tattoos because you never know what that person is dealing with.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Alcohol or weed tattoos.

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A “Punisher” tattoo. Especially if they’re in any sort of authority position.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Biggest red flag is if it's a cop. The original punisher comic had him going after corrupt police and politicians. Police have since tried to claim the symbol means "no mercy". It's a massive red flag that whoever has it has temper issues and a lack of self control that they see as a badge of honor. F**k those people.

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Erogenous zone.

I’m nobody’s idea of a love god, but I’m reasonably capable of finding your happy spots without garish billboards to guide the way. You’re a partner, not a cheesy amusement park.

A few encouraging words and movements is more than enough.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This person sounds really sweet, encouraging communication is a green flag

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Lips on the neck

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is that a thing? Edit: I googled it. It is indeed a thing. Not a good thing.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones I was once friends with a girl who had ten tattoos, all of which were matching tattoos with other girl friends. She’s no longer friends with any of them. Two big red flags there- intense codependent friendships, many enemies/falling outs with past friends. She even tried to get me to do a matching tattoo with her once. No thanks.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do understand that, but some probably find it a funny/nice reminder of a time they lived through.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones I used to work at an all purpose gas station in Pittsburgh, and was constantly told about a customer who had our store logo tattooed on his arm.

Didn't make me proud, made me feel like I was joining a very corporate cult.

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A tattoo of their own face... Unless they're Steve-O.

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones An inspirational quote tatted on someone screams they're trying desperately to prove something to themselves.

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#32

People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Stupid baseless words like “Pay2play” or “Boss movezzzz”

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It's rather inexplicable, but Tweety Bird tats attract the worst

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ever notice how almost any woman who exist with this type of tattoo (and lets face it, men simply don't get Tweety Bird tatts for whatever reason) tends to be SUPER unhealthy in their general lifestyle and life choices?

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones I know this guy with a tattoo across his collar bones that says “Uneducated genius"

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Carpe diem.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, just put YOLO there, everyone already knows it's the same thing.

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I think this might just be an Australian thing but having the southern cross tattoo anywhere is a red flag.
Don't know why it's specifically the southern cross but holy s**t every person I've ever met with that specific tattoo has been a walking red flag

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I swear guys with roses on their hands are generally a**holes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A rose on the hand typically tends to mean "if things get heated, I'm genuinely not above hitting the woman I'm with."

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Being a tattooist for 11/12 years. Really in my eyes it’s usually people with not well done house tattoos who throw up the most red flags.

Thinking they are owed something and plain rude especially when someone is about to stab you lol

In no way am I trying to say house tattoos are bad what I’m saying is the sense of self entitlement and the need to have it done then and there breeds a different type of client that is usually rude or is an a*****e in my experience.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are house tattoos the tattoos on the walls or in books at the tattoo shop?

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People Claim These Tattoos Signal Major Red Flags On People, Here Are 40 Of The Worst Ones Zodiac signs

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scorpio here! My initial is "M" and the Scorpio symbol looks like an M with an arrow on it. I wish people would stop cramping on folks with zodiac tattoos, especially when it has a special meaning.

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