Tattoo Artists, what's your most "ARE YOU SURE...?" Tattoo you've done? - Reddit Podcast

[@monroerobbins7551]

I met a tattoo artist, I asked them the coolest thing they did on the job. This old lady, 60-70, came in with a big request: two massive roses on each hip. She had some older navy tattoos on her back and shoulders, and she said she always wanted “rose hips”. The pun alone was legendary, but this woman was kickass.

[@adelerodriguez2432]

Hilarious!

[@turtlnickel]

Yes, tattooing the inside of the lip IS in fact a thing.

[@mantisnt1335]

Is it a bad idea though?

[@biggestfan8175]

Yeah Is it

[@Marinuss]

It does fade away after some time though, just like tattoos on the bottom of the foot

[@vinawaldren6888]

Tattooing ANYTHING is indeed a thing! 👍 (Ex-shop employee)

[@Madduckkk]

@@vinawaldren6888 tattoo in my rectum

[@Kermitthehog132]

If he thinks lip tats are weird just wait until he hears about eyeball tats. Not tats OF eyeballs, but tats ON eyeballs

[@ivorynk752]

Like the actual white of the eye, or the eye lid? either feels too risky for me. The eye is a delicate organ and a mistake can rob you of one of your 5 senses.

[@Kermitthehog132]

@@ivorynk752 The white

[@ivorynk752]

@@Kermitthehog132 Eeg.

[@lilykmit3854]

dude i finally forgot bout those things why you gotta remind me

[@erawebt]

who is insane enough to get a tattoo on an eyeball

[@pancake4061]

I have half a mind to get a tattoo that says "meaningless" on my back, and then just lie about it whenever somebody asks what it says.

[@alfonsoroneras7821]

Sooo... You are going gaslight everyone

[@pancake4061]

@@alfonsoroneras7821 There's a difference between gaslighting and lying.

[@MsGbergh]

@@pancake4061 Yes, gaslighting would be a tattoo artist telling customers a tattoo is 'meaningful' in another script, when it says 'meaningless'.

[@pancake4061]

@@MsGbergh I'm not an artist, numbnuts. I want that shit on MY body.

[@SunRabbit]

Kinda reminds me of a town nearby where one of the streets is named No Name Street.

[@Nevertoleave]

Sometimes I think people should get henna tattoos to see how it looks before getting it permanently

[@ferretqueen2908]

That's actually a pretty good idea, especially if you're new to tattoos or aren't too sure about what you're getting.

[@adelerodriguez2432]

I wanted to get a henna Celtic knot, but the lady said the detail wouldn't be the same as a permanent tattoo. I see tattoos as a luxury, and my thinking is what do I do if I get tired of it or change my mind.

[@johnmckee6029]

I had a guy come in wanting a name on the side of his neck. He kept talking about his daughter and I thought the only name you should have on you is your kids so I said okay. Halfway through the tattoo he told me the whole story. It wasn’t his daughter. It wasn’t even his girlfriend. It was his ex gf. She dumped him for “smoking cigarettes” just months after he paid thousands for her breast implants. He was hoping that getting her name tattooed ON HIS NECK would impress her and win her back. I was horrified. Never saw him again so I’m not sure if it worked or if she got a restraining order.

[@peterkoller3761]

A friend of mine lost his right lower leg when he rolled down the side of a landfill with his excavator. he uses a full metal leg prosthesis which he wears openly, and has a tattoo on his left calf, with an arrow pointing right "one foot in the grave" another guy I know, who is into "tough" tattoos (Skull, roaring lion etc) lost a bet and now he has a 6in tat of My Little Pony "Pinkie Pie" on his chest...

[@Kingborax501-ce3ju]

Now this is cool

[@Leslie_ann_h]

I have two tattoos. One is a puzzle piece relating to my autism spectrum disorder. The other tattoo is a medical alert that goes around that puzzle piece that says- insulin dependent diabetic. Eventually, I'll be getting two more medical alert tattoos. One will be Dysautonomia and the other Steroid Dependent Adrenal Insufficiency. Yes, it is a bit expensive getting medical alert tattoos but my figuring is that I won't ever break or lose the medical alerts unless I lose my arm in which case I would have a bigger problem-> LOSING MY ARM!!

[@weirdst_]

I know this was 4 days ago but I just want to warn you (as someone with suspected autism) that the puzzle piece is considered rude because a lot of people think it’s supposed to mean that autistics are puzzle pieces that need to be “put together”/fixed. I personally agree but I just want to tell you in case you run into other autistic people and they might get offended and you may not know why

[@Just1Nora]

I'm looking at a company that makes various items from traditional medical alert jewelry to things like tags on clips, smart watch band straps, and even stickers you can put on your own bracelet, card, car window, etc, and they have a qr code and password so if something happens to you first responders can just scan the qr code, b/c all smart phones have qr readers, and it will take them to the company's website where you store whatever data you want first responders to know. I've thought about the tattoo, but I have small, deep veins so I'm a hard stick if I'm not really well hydrated and I don't want to put anything that would get in the way of them finding a vein, because the true emergency option is brutal... I'm chronically awesome myself, but adding diabetes 2 in the last 2 yrs on top of my kidney vasculitis, bradycardia, POTS, vertigo...and those are just the ones that might cause me sudden or silent trouble, I decided it's time for the alert bracelet... 😩

[@dude988]

@@weirdst_ I thought we don't like the puzzle piece because it's the logo of autism speaks. A group of ableist conservatives who think they can cure autism, are searching for a way to screen for autism in the womb to be able to (late) terminate a pregnancy etc.

[@dude988]

I really like the idea of medical alert tattoos. It has the same reason why I write things on the back of my hand. I definitely would lose or forget the existence of a piece of paper with written reminders, but I haven't lost any of my hands in over 40 year yet.

[@Leslie_ann_h]

For me the puzzle piece represents the missing piece about myself-> being able to understand society and myself at times. For me it is a bit of a positive view because I understand the piece that I'm missing and the puzzle piece, in a sense, completes me. However, courtesy of having ocd, I'm always striving to better myself. Also, as I have crap for veins (and after having two central line placements) my neurologist got me approved for a port placed so, as long as I am carrying my "crash kit" (a few huber needles in my preferred brand and needed length, an equal amount of luer lock tips, a few saline flushes and two heparin flushes along with two sterile dressing kits along with an "instruction manual" of sorts explaining the order of use for the antibacterial skin cleaners/skin prep-> chlorahexadine scrub swab, rubbing alcohol swab sticks followed by the skin prep wipe as this order is what prevents my skin from freaking out too much from the tegaderm) I'm not too worried about IV access, although I do state on the "instruction manual" that if they aren't comfortable with accessing my port then to use an IO site-> a special needle that gets drilled into the bone and yes, it is as painful as it sounds..... Plus, I did my research on IV placement and very few people have a good vein in the spot where my current two tattoos are- on the top of the wrist above the back of my hand, right where no good veins exist on me in the same spot where a watch face would sit.

[@melissaleigh8019]

During the early 90’s, my best pal got so drunk and he met a girl. The girl said she liked Bob Ross to the death. He genuinely thought that they were gonna marry even though she was his first successful relationship. He got a massive tattoo of Bob Ross with a paintbrush covering his entire chest. The tattoo artist was concerned when he saw my pal’s state (he was dead drunk.)She hesitated but my pal convinced the artist to do it. The girl my pal fell in love with broke up with him 3 weeks later. My pal was then stuck with a Bob Ross tattoo covering his entire chest. My pal eventually used high tech lasers to fade it off and eventually he recovered. Me and him still joke about it sometimes at a bar nearby, good times.

[@vinawaldren6888]

Gee-whiz! Years ago my son met a co-worker of mine (a young girl), they dated for maybe 6 months, she got a huge tattoo of my son's name tattooed on the side of her neck! She wanted to do it as a surprise for him. I kept telling her not to do that. Welp, they are no longer together but I still see her around town every now and then still sporting my son's name on the side of her neck! (**Her looks have changed over the years, but I always know it's her when I see that big J****! 😄)

[@markgleason2078]

@@vinawaldren6888 😊

[@Sleve-McDichael]

What sort of shitty tattoo artist works on someone when they're "dead drunk"? It's a huge no no. Apart from impaired decision-making, alcohol thins the blood which means you bleed A LOT when getting tattooed.

[@annahgibbus8]

@@Sleve-McDichael IKR? I'm friends with 2 different tattoo artists & it says on their front doors they won't give tattoos to drunk people. Talent & Ethics is Everything in a Tattoo Artists.

[@zakosist]

Seems like tattooing anything related to your current partner is a bad idea, especially if you havent been together for a long time already. I also think tattoo artists should refuse tattoos of people who are too drunk when they decide

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

I was working with an old woman in the 1980's, She had a black line 1/2" X 2" tattooed on her army with a list of 7 names. She was a German Jew who was in a camp in WW2. The black line covered the number and the list of names was her family who died, she was the only left alive.

[@adelerodriguez2432]

OMG I would've flipped out if I had seen that. That poor woman.

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

@@adelerodriguez2432 You need to move on and never forget, when people forget it will happen again.

[@rustmonster1e]

I once heard an apocryphal story about a tattoo artist in New York who just snapped one day, and thereafter, whenever somebody came in asking for stomach tattoo of Chinese characters, no matter what they ask for he would simply right "insert general tso's chicken here."

[@notiddymothbirlfriend]

15:33 You can get inner lip tattoos. They don't tend to last long, because your mouth heals and sheds so fast, and almost always look scratch as fuck, regardless of the quality of the art or artist- it's just a bad spot all around, but one that can be tattooed.

[@Dustinlove102]

6:20 " dude ended up with a dapper dangling and he was happy with it" brand new sentence ☠☠☠

[@TheJiamy]

I love the foot daisy story, because my first tattoo was a huge ass red flower in the same place: right on top of my foot. I told my tattoo artist it was my first and the guy just paused. He told me that it was going to hurt and to tell him if I needed a break. I told him I knew it was gonna hurt, and that it was all good because any other tattoos I get won’t hurt as much in comparison lol. It did, in fact, really fucking hurt. Absolutely worth it though! Sat the whole tat with full color, took about three hours. The worst part was the healing process. My foot looked like a balloon for a few days, so full of fluid you wouldn’t believe. It actually felt much better after I started keeping pressure on it,

[@alonzomendoza7520]

Oh man my time to shine, I didn't end up doing this tattoo but it's my go to anytime anyone asks this kinda question. This happened early on in my tattoo career, I was fresh out of high school, had been apprenticing at the shop for almost a year at this point, was pretty much thrown into the meat grinder and expected to hold my own and I did with relative success. At the time I was putting up ads on both Facebook market place and Craigslist, with that being said that tends to bring in very questionable people and tattoos. One day I'm going through my emails and messages to see if I had any bites and I find someone who was interested in getting a back piece, I had yet to tackle a back so I was pretty excited at this next possible venture. We get to chatting, and it gets to the point where I'm trying to weasel some details out of this man because he decided to keep his answers vague. Eventually he relents and says I want a black and grey demon on my back, and I was like fuck ya! Let's do it. And this is where It got weird real fucking fast. He than sends several explicit pictures and details about said demon. This fucking guy not only wanted a demon on his back, but wanted it to have it with a giant horse cock (I shit you not) with it jizzing on his back. It goes from that to another picture of someone's asshole with a bullseye tattooed around it (so his master had somewhere to aim) his words, not mine. than wants leather straps tattooed around both his wrists and ankles and he wants all this done while his master watches. Turns out home boy was into some weird shit. I didn't respond right away and after a few days of him blowing up my email I eventually responded and turned down the tattoo and money he was offering. I'm leaving out some details because it got real fucking explicit.

[@warmregardsrui]

Good lord 💀

[@-.severly.depressed.-]

MASTER!? HORSECOCK!?

[@alonzomendoza7520]

@@-.severly.depressed.- he sent me several pictures of actual horse penises for references

[@alonzomendoza7520]

@@warmregardsrui had a good laugh afterward, but it was wild to experience

[@russellthompson8414]

In the gym one day, the guy next to me has woman's faces all down his right side. A dozen or so. They were all horrified, screaming, many with bullet holes in the forehead. All I could think is, "I hope you never end up in court for domestic violence."

[@kittenwhisperer6408]

I didn't get my first tattoo until I was over 50. I figured I wouldn't live long enough to regret it. I'm getting my hubby's name tattooed on my wrist when I turn 70. Not worried, we have been married 43 years!!

[@esecretlangel9130]

My friend (a guy) met a guy on Halo or something like that, and when they learned they both go to the same university, they decided to meet up for coffee. So he asks me and a few other friends to come and hang back as sort of one of those extraction teams (that's how he put it). It turns out that the other guy was a year younger than us, but he had my friend's full name (one of those unique spelling names) tattooed on his back (yes, he took his shirt off). The weird thing was that it was his full name spelt correctly, and when my friend only told his gamer tag.

[@starlight_maven]

This is why I plan on getting something sensible: A Celtic trinity knot tattoo on my upper thigh. It'll be high enough on my leg so I can hide it from potential employers, and only show it off when I go swimming. I chose the thigh specifically because it's the least painful area to get a tattoo, and my pain tolerance is not so good.

[@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer]

Men who get Celtic tattoos don't worry about potential employers. They employ themselves and have to turn down work because people need them. 99% of people don't get rich working for someone else.

[@Max-ox5jd]

Just use painkillers. Seriously, it's okay. Just don't tell them, most are too oldschool to understand it's normal.

[@Robynhoodlum]

@@Max-ox5jd Careful which ones you use. Aspirin can thin blood.

[@lc3853]

You listed off a bunch of reasons why you don't need a tattoo. You just want one to fit in with the crowd. Ever think you might be surrounded by assholes?

[@ferretqueen2908]

Sounds like you did a good job thinking it through! My first tattoo(I have more planned) was a string of pawprints on my left shoulder, and it's easily covered by a t-shirt, so I can show it off if I want to, but it's also easily hidden.

[@SunRabbit]

I own an inner-city apartment building where we have a common backyard for all the renters and I noticed that one of them, a young 30s woman, had an explicit, highly detailed picture of herself naked and playing with an adult sex toy tattooed on her inner thigh. I could never take my eyes off that thing anytime we'd all be outside, while at the same time asking myself WHY? Why would anyone get something like that?

[@dragonlynx9969]

I only have one tattoo and getting an artist to do it was a challenge. Wanted someone who was really good with colors, had a few people who tried convincing me not to do it cause it was too big and part of it covers the back of my hand, but I was determined. After one artist rejected me with bogus reasons (I'm not white trash, I'm Hispanic, and I'm older than 21), I found an artist that was highly requested who accepted me. It took months because of the detail and the amount of pain I could resist per appointment. I was picky too. But the end result was beautiful. I still have it to this day and I love it. Tattoos are for life, so you should be picky.

[@petelee2477]

15:27 eyeball tattoos exist and that's much worse by comparison

[@thecatarmy3485]

15:12 about tattoos in you’re mouth, my older sister, a vegan, got the word “veggies” tattooed either under her tongue or the inside of her lower lip, I forget. So yes, it is possible to get a mouth tattoo. With a very uneducated guess with no research done at all, I’d assume the main risk of getting a tattoo in your mouth like that would be infection during the recovery process due to bacteria in our saliva.

[@miaknight2818]

Oooh! Not me but my aunt. Apparently when she was in her 20's she got a tattoo on her arm as a good ol' "F it I can do what I want. I'm an adult" statement. She decided she wanted the phrase "to live for today" and to be extra edgy and special, she decided to get it Japanese. My aunt does not know ANY Japanese, and her 20 something butt trusted the shady ass tat shop guy doing the design to translate it for her. She gets the tattoo but as time goes on gets nervous as she realizes she has no idea what is actually tattooed on her arm. Eventually makes friends with someone who speaks and reads Japanese and asks for the translation. The following exchange happens. Friend: (intently stares at tattoo for 10 seconds silently) "what did you think this said?" Aunt: "to live for today" Friend:".........it's close" Aunt: "what does it say?" Friend: "needs help living". Aunt still has the tattoo unaltered 20 years later and continuously makes jokes about its supposed accuracy.

[@yasininn76]

That got from edgy to actually good tattoo

[@CecilBob-c4l]

That story is hilarious and needs more up votes.

[@ffakr]

About Jeffery who can't spell his name.. I spent a good portion, perhaps most of my life not entirely sure how to properly spell my middle name. :-P In my defense.. My mother chose my Middle to be the same as the Last name of a comedian she liked. Comedian's last name is also a common first name that happens to have multiple common spelling variations. I almost never had to use my middle name for anything throughout my life. I'm a First/Last guy except for those rare occasions where I'm presented with official paperwork that demands a middle name. Oh.. and it didn't help that my mother didn't know how the Comedian spelled his last name when she filled out the paperwork to register mine after my birth. There is a period in my childhood where I consistently misspelled my middle name because I was using the correct spelling for that Comedian's name... other times I just used whatever spelling came to mind at that moment. I always wondered if there's some document in my grammar and high school records that lists all the aliases I had inadvertently used over the course of my Education to that point. But first name? How do you make it to adulthood like that?

[@Galvanizedsquaresteel13]

My dad is fine with whatever tattoos, but he says I shouldn't get it unless it can be covered up by a suit. No face, neck, hand tattoos

[@Icalasari]

15:15 - Not a tattoo artist, just somebody with a great understanding of biology No, no that is NOT a viable place for a tattoo, the mouth is one of the most frequently regenerating exposed parts of the body

[@immortalsofar5314]

Never wanted a tattoo. One man's "expression of individualism" is another juror's "distinguishing mark".

[@livwake]

Are you planning on committing a crime?

[@immortalsofar5314]

@@livwake If I consider it necessary, yes. There are some laws that men of good conscience cannot obey.

[@peekaboo4q674]

My buddy dated this girl that had "C*NT" tattooed to the inside of her lip and she wore it with pride. One night she came home drunk after the bars closed wanting to get laid but my buddy was trying to sleep cuz he had to work in the morning. She got all pissed off and started wailing on him to the point that he called the cops. Cops show up and she bursts into tears saying she was afraid for her life. It was her apartment so the cops took her side and arrested my buddy. On the way out the door, she says wait i don't want him to get cold and comes up to wrap him up in a jacket since he was wearing nothing but pajama bottoms and it was winter. Nice gesture right? Nah. She slipped a pipe and a bag of weed into the pocket of the jacket before sending him off with the cops. I guess that's what he gets. The girl literally came with a warning label.

[@ChristianMcAngus]

Videos like this make me feel good about never getting tattooed.

[@arelcrest]

I have three tiny dots building an invisible triangle. It‘s super small and I love it! ❤

[@irmalair9861]

same

[@stormdoesgaming8919]

Nah man, as someone with four currently, there's nothing wrong with tattoos. You just have to be VERY careful about what you get, and where.

[@ferretqueen2908]

​​@@stormdoesgaming8919 I have one (a string of pawprints on my left shoulder that represents how cats have always been a major thing to me), and I have more planned, it really is all about being careful and thinking hard about a permanent mark on your body. One rule I got from my mom: no names, ever.

[@Twitchy8]

As i heard about the one that meant hate cancer as an italian i knew

[@dmouse9269]

“Bad to the bone” is funnier.

[@tanyagsw7920]

I got a tattoo of my boyfriends name (he got mine too). We ended up getting married but unfortunately he passed away 3 years later. I don't regret it but don't think I'd ever do it again lol

[@Superkid33]

I’m sorry for your loss D:

[@adelerodriguez2432]

I am so sorry for your loss.

[@kellymenne5480]

I just love your channel!! I had only just found it and have been binge watching! Keep up the great work!

[@musicgirl12357]

15:28 I'm not a tattoo artist though I do a lot of research on things and have tattoos myself. Yes lip tattoos are a thing although they don't last long. Also there have been people who have gotten their tongues tattooed.

[@getweirdwes]

19:46 you spell cavalry the same. Did you mean he messed up and spelled Calvary on accident?

[@dstreet4599]

Yeah I literally had to rewind that part 5 times because I couldn't tell the difference and thought that was trippin.

[@ivorynk752]

The number of people that decide tattoos of girlfriends and boyfriends names don't seem to regard getting it as much of a commitment as marriage even though it is just as permanent.

[@georgegates2114]

Used to work at a hot tub rental place. Had Mark come in a lot and when someone new asked what his name was, he would pull down his lower lip and show his name.

[@JamesQMurphy]

NGL... "Camel Toe" is pretty damned funny.

[@theoriginalbeanboy]

i kinda want to get a tattoo on my shoulder that says some random shit in a weird language nobody speaks. who knows, maybe i'll put "ဘရိုကိုလီ" (it means broccoli. in Myanmar Burmese)

[@666toysoldier]

After working in hospitals for a half-century, I've seen a lot of tattoos. One funny story from many years ago involves a prison inmate who was in surgery for a cystoscopy. He had the stereotypical crude tattoos of hinges at his elbows and 'love' and 'hate' on his knuckles. After he was anesthetized, I put him up in stirrups and started to prep. There was a black widow spider tattooed on his meatus. The urologist dilated his urethra, put in the cystoscope, and said "Hey! There's a tattoo in here!" Oh yeah, what is it? "It's a sign with an arrow that says THIS WAY OUT."

[@Moons_broken_right_eye]

12:37 This is one of my favorite reddit stories I've ever heard😂😂😂😂😂

[@larry01902]

Last story: the dude bled a lot, because he was drunk. Alcohol tends to this out blood.

[@lunaticbz3594]

One's cutie mark shows your destiny or special talent in life. So it should be a personalized thing not copying someone. Though I think they make more sense on ponies that live in a magical land, then on a human. Especially since ponies don't have to wear pants so others can actually see it.

[@Just1Nora]

Tattoos should always be for the individual first. If it brings him joy that he knows that he has his own cutie marks then more power to him! As long as he is happy with it then it doesn't really matter if other people see it, unless his objective was to get a tattoo to be seen. Then we better hope he works in a non traditional strip club! I have a trail of small black footprints across my shoulders. I should have had the artist redo the stencil because I wanted them higher up, but he was in training and it was my first tattoo and I was still a human doormat, but not the point. The prints were inked from the feet of my favorite pet rat, so he'll run across my shoulders for the rest of my life, as will my other babies in spirit. The thing is, without being shirtless or wearing a low cut shirt and standing in front of a mirror I can't see it, but I know his little feet are with me coming up on 14 years now. I got it over a year before he passed. The point is that I can basically only see it with my shirt off, but it doesn't make me any less happy that I got it where I did. It still has significance, and anyone who owns rats will tell you about how they love to run across and just chill on your shoulders. But if I do wear a tank top I always see people smile even if they aren't exactly sure what animal the footprints belong to. The idea, originality, but simplicity is enough to strike a chord in others.

[@Benjley-tb9mr]

I'm Italian and I died at the dangling cancer one

[@_mirary_]

The way he screamed at the start was so funny help 😭

[@Fenderbot2012]

15:15 I heard of this lady who tattooed a peanut on the inside of her lower lip... she's allergic to peanuts. It was supposed to be symbolic or smt

[@widgeonslayer]

Always a good idea to ask the artist’s opinion on s piece.

[@sagesemadeni4024]

A buddy of mine has a scar on his forehead from being hit with a 2x4. I keep telling him that he should get a broken 2x4 tattooed over it with the scar as the crack.

[@tomowens7301]

Man I am glad I never followed through with " do you know what would make a cool tattoo?" That being said I have seen some interesting ones in my life. I think the best what were you thinking tattoos was when I was in the Army. We had had a new private come in on our last 2 months of our deployment to Iraq. When we got back he was frequently at the local tat shop. First was the mud flap girl outline on the back of his calves, next was the Ford emblem on his stomach just below his bellybutton. I guess he was trying to turn himself into a ford truck. 🚚

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Young guy that used to work in the magic shop I went to in New Jersey, had a tattoo of the 3♣️ on the inside of his bottom lip. He said it hurt like hell, but he was happy with it (He used it for a playing card reveal).

[@tcmax7837]

12:32 is a great example of why ya gotta be careful with tattooing foreign languages lol. If you did tattoo fried rice in Chinese, the same word is also slang for fucking (like the actual act)

[@magicmiya7545]

Girl asked specifically for a word to be spelled incorrectly. We googled it in front of her, encouraged her to think about it. She refused, said she knew what she wanted. Lol end of the day, not my body, not my problem 😂 I was not her artist, more like the receptionist.

[@wht-rabt-obj]

Funny story...I was getting a tattoo on my inner forearm and there was a huge dude in the next room, ALSO getting a tattoo on his inner forearm. I fell asleep during my tattoo, and was jarred awake when this huge dude was squealing like a 13 year old girl! Me and my tattoo artist were trying so hard not to laugh too loud.

[@dude988]

My artist said it's always the big guys that suffer the most. I'm skinny and was even skinnier when I got the inside of my upper arm done. Yeah, near the armpit isn't nice and shading with 10 needles simultaneously sucks, but apparently many tough guys either tap out or pass out in that area.

[@Max-ox5jd]

Wow, inner arm was probably THE most pain I ever had in a range where I could barely stay cool without breaking down. If I ever put more in that place I'll use strong painkillers for sure. But the artist really put the needle too deep and too often into that one spot, the skin there literally fell out and needed to heal for months and the color was totally mixed up because of this.

[@Starchild42]

I have 7.5 tats... You NEVER, EVER get names put on your body, not even yours!! Kids names are the only names on you, if you are into that... My tats are things from my personality, so I haven't regretted them yet...my first was in 1993...

[@ivorynk752]

I was just told about someone got tattoos of their kids' names. You think that would be safe, but one of the kids got gender re-assignment surgery and the new name they go by isn't even remotely similar to the old one.

[@mistermeanial1690]

I had a couple of tattoo artists tell me that getting names was a curse unless the person is dead. Granted, not all artists feel this way, but I’ve heard it enough times to respect their opinions. OP, I only have 2 for now. Like yours, they are important to me. I’m hoping to get more soon. Thank you for sharing your story

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

Bananaman is also a children's comedy hero here in the UK.

[@reaganeidemiller7132]

15:30 it can be done; the inside of your lip is just a soft layer of skin that is constantly lubricated by your own saliva, but it isn't where the saliva is secreted and there is no specialized organ there. Unlike your tongue, it isn't a muscle either. It'd be really uncomfortable to get though probably, and due to the way you'd have to stretch your lip the proportion would be inconsistent. Biggest concern is infection, human saliva is *very* toxic, lots of bacteria and the food debris is an inflammatory, and I don't see a person performing reasonable aftercare on their inner lip; if they manage to keep it clean though, at least that section heals fast. Pretty much, you can do it, it'll work if you manage to keep it clean; you really shouldn't, not worth the effort.

[@ryandoesacting]

Thanks for the info!

[@kingjacob101]

9:02 It's from one of the Goat Simulator games. You just need context for that tattoo to make sense.

[@thedevilsadvocate788]

A friend of mine has a... cornucopia tattooed around his shlong. He thought it was hilarious. The joke, however, didn't get him much in term of intimacy. Couldn't help but tell him "Not much abundance from the cornucopia, don't you think?"

[@thesheerwoodcrow5465]

Story 23 is strangely wholesome

[@Steaknstuff]

Not a tattoo story, but one time we were learning how to give fractions common denominators with a hook-shaped method. We got to chose to potential names, so we chose candy-cane method or fish hook method. Keep in mind, it was around Christmas time. Me and a few other guys chose fishing hook method, I mostly chose it because it wouldn’t be season reliant, but somehow candy cane method won. The Christmas themed Christmas present mention reminded me of that, bad times. Bad times.

[@Agender_Potato]

The red flag comment was me to my now ex-boyfriend current girlfriend After she broke up with him for beating and sexually assaulting her countless times she cried to me apologizing that she didn't listen to me She's back with him. I told her it wasn't her fault for not listening to me the first time Now she knows how he is and she actively chose to go back knowing what he put me through what he put my cat through and what he put her through. It's her fault this time. Because she told me she was going to file police report she was going to get him evicted etc Am i a shitty person for telling her it's her fault? 100% but do i care? No.

[@Nova_Momma40]

My "Are you sure moment" I was 18 first tattoo was what I have been told is a tramp stamp. It says Lucky in like a Japanese block type lettering but you can read it clearly in English and then there is a symbol below it in Japanese that "says" rat. Lucky was my nickname born in the year of the rat sounded like a great idea at the time....oh and to top it all off its scarred so I can't even really cover it up.

[@stevenbalkovec1669]

Speaking of the lip tattoo. My brother has "fuck you" on the inside of his lower lip. It's been 30 years and you can still read it.

[@sethmizrachi8337]

One of these days I'm going to get a tattoo of a wristwatch on my left wrist, and on the face it'll say "if you can read this, someone stole my Rolex"

[@fireblade425]

As a person who i would say is relatively reasonable even as a kid, i don't understand why full grown adults get these stupid tattoos

[@SkiggsMoDiggs]

i wouldnt dismiss all tattoos like that. a lot of them have extremely special meanings, and even if not, people just like to decorate themselves like how they would decorate their house. while i wouldnt personally ever get a tattoo, if someone isn't young and dumb or impaired in some other way, then i don't see an issue. just be extra sure thats what you want. in fact, a lot of people get tattoos of their deceased loved ones. it helps the grieving process for some people think what you will, but i think some tattoos can be good for people

[@fireblade425]

@@SkiggsMoDiggs yeah I know I was just talking about people who get tattoos when they're not drunk that don't have any special meaning to them and are just embarrassing like I get decorating yourself but some of these just seem a bit dumb

[@MsGbergh]

In the part of England where I live, it seems to be rare not to get a tattoo, by say age 20, or to be between the ages of say 20 to 55 and not have a tattoo.

[@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer]

@@fireblade425 Mania

[@lollybirdy]

The cutie mark thing got me 6:43

[@carolinejensen3465]

So story 34, I at 18, went and got my first tattoo, of a daisy on the top of my foot. Yes the artist did try to talk me out of it, yes I sat for the 45 minutes until he finished, yes it is completed. I laughed the entire time and was told that I was one of the best sitting customers he's ever had, 12 tattoos later, my only regret is that I didn't get the vines I wanted up and around my leg.

[@Bella-hk3ds]

1:06 2:03 3:00 4:05 5:20 6:08 7:12 8:29 9:04 10:21 11:15 12:19 13:14 14:10 15:07 16:15 18:40 20:07

[@salem2543]

i'm not a tattoo artist but from what i've heard, getting a tattoo on the inside of your mouth is ultimately pointless. it's super painful, hard to do, and it fades super quick. probably a super expensive tattoo if you actually want it to last since you'd most likely have to make constant appointments to touch it up once it starts to fade, also, literally no one but you and the artist will know it's there.

[@VexedVergil]

Throwing it out there for the newbies who have no tats, but they do have creams/ gels the numb some of the pain if you're really sensitive. Most tattooist I've been to usually have it and was suprised they didn't use on the that gal with the angel wings.

[@Batzoid]

My name is Jeffrey. I had to check my id

[@lisacowburn3528]

I have a camel on my toe.. got it a couple of years ago and I'm only a few years off 50. When I'm old and someone is having to bathe me or wipe my azz.. I wanna still be able to make them smile/laugh.. growing old disgracefully.

[@g.cosper]

I like your style girlfriend - I'm 67 and looking for ideas...

[@Riphpia]

guy from story 7 is elite

[@jonathanstanfield5024]

sack o lantern tattoo artist is wrong, that shits hilarious

[@madalynstokes8774]

The bee on the guys thing is the end for me. Oml WHY

[@onewholovesvenison5335]

The banana man tattoo actually sounds charming

[@Ramon_nN1alt]

My tattoos I might want in the future: that one cool dragon on my upper arm, a bee somewhere on a lower arm and the = from finding yourself on my wrist or so

[@LegendStormcrow]

In Florida Man's defense, he's Florida Man.

[@hajivideos9104]

4:07 (he didn't get the tattoo, but this is if he did) imagine you see that dude in restroom again, and he notices the same tattoo at the same spot. he'd definitely be embarrassed about his..uh...TIP TATTOO! (pause for dramatic effect) bro-dude, this sounds like something from a kurtis conner imagines video LOL!

[@Max-ox5jd]

It was really a load of work to finally get my tattooist to agree to make my tattoo, and that after we spent days on changing and twisting everything so he was able to do it in the first place. For one he didn't want to do it in the size I wanted, then he didn't want to put it where I wanted it (wrist) because he said it would get bleak over time (which I am aware of and wouldn't mind, it's a small exchange for my dream tattoo), then he tried talking me out of or making me feel bad about how I wanted it "upside down" to be upright for my view instead of that of others. Because apparently he had never done it and never seen it and it would look wrong to everyone because apparently I'd walk around with my arms down and outside all the time. He basically is a quack with no clue what's he's talking about. Has lots of extremely stupid and obviously wrong opinions on everything (basically a combination of nazi, illegal biker gang member, conspiracy nutjob, dumb, line-drawing non-artist. But at least in the end I got a somewhat nice looking version of a tattoo version of my ideas that I'm fine with, without him asking too many questions about the meaning, when the meaning is THAT intimate that most wouldn't have done it or would have tried to fight me.

[@jordancambridge4106]

So no an artist and not at a tattoo place but about 13 years ago I worked at a grocery store as a bagger slash cart gatherer and there were several. The first was a woman who claimed she had her children's names in Japanese on her neck and shoulders. I doubted it so I was hoping I could see if this Japanese guy who shopped there could translate and he was there about that same time every day and he was right behind her so I asked him if he could translate what the words actually said. So really funny fact is it was a menu for McDonalds. She screamed and said he does not know Japanese and how she is smarter than him. The stupid women did not know that the guy literally moved from Japan to America only about 3 years before so he could be closer to his daughter who was pregnant at the time. The guy literally lived in Japan for 60 years and was a new found grandpa and English was his second language in which he barely could speak English and could not write nearly anything at all in English. If there was a better person to know Japanese it would be a guy who literally worked as a Japanese linguist who translated different types of Japanese into other types of Japanese because really screwed up fact is there are over 500 completely different actively spoken and written forms of Japanese and what she had on her shoulders and neck was literally from his home town. Someone had basically taken a picture of a Japanese McDonalds Menu and this dumb woman put that on her body. HAHAHAHA that one was funny. The second one however pissed me off. There was a different women who called herself a Wiccan which is a witch that some morons believe is not a witch but a woman who has the power to use earth and nature magic and is good while witches are bad. In truth the actual reality is its a change in words. The work wiccan means female witch while the turn warlock was male witch. Some people called warlocks wizards but that turn did not come into existence until around the 1890s. The turn witch just meant being able to use magic or magical power or spiritual energy it had no gender assigned to it until really stupid fact but around the 1940s. The turn witch just meant someone with magical power and had no connection to gender. The turn wiccan was used by woman to mean someone who could use magic but was good but that was to well be used to act like using magic was different in the way women could use it when in reality it has no real function. The turn wiccan fell out of fashion because people did not care to allow these crazies to use a different word for witch and just called them a witch anyway. So however this crazy bitch had a tattoo of a bull skull inside of an upside down 5 point star with a circle around it which is literally the sign of the devil and not a wiccan sign. Wiccan signs were actually quite stupid because when the term was used they well often used the signs of dicks or mushrooms or leaves. Now you can do what ever stupid shit you want to your own body but she ended up saying she was going to give her new born baby that same tattoo. So she went to tattoo places and 100% of them refused and she did it herself. A few days later she was pissed off because she now had to go to court to try and get her child back because her child got taken away and turns out she lost full custody and I did find out she had a court case and ended up being kicked out of the court room when she tried to attack the judge. Her child had been forever taken away and I did find out that child had that tattoo removed by the best surgeons in America for free. That child was instantly adopted by a loving family and the parent who harmed her child is dying in prison. Yea they locked her up and well the woman was over weight as hell and well the judge threw the entire library at her not just a single book. I even heard that her own lawyer got pissed off at her and left so she had to represent herself because no defense lawyer wanted to go anywhere near her case at all.

[@melissaharris3890]

not a lawyer, but if she came to me to defend her, I would laugh

[@selectidiot]

warlock mean betrayer of the covenant not male witch, a witch is just a witch.

[@MsGbergh]

It could have been worse than the MacDonalds menu. Someone could have posted a fake Japanese menu for a high end restaurant on social media which she thought 'cool' to make a tattoo of. But it could have been the price list for a brothel's services. (BTW - I don't have any personal experience - but imagine they might have them - rather like salons.) I'd say never hav a tattoo in any language that you can't read.

[@sarahp5003]

My Japanese teacher made sure to have us learn several specific Kanji based on tattoos she had seen around town, figuring if we saw them, we could get a laugh. Most were unaware of what their tattoos meant, thinking they meant the typical strength, honor, sword etc. One guy I saw, big burly biker guy thought he had warrior and honor, when they actually meant pretty (or beautiful, but pretty is funnier in this case) princess. Another guy, also pretty big and burly, was the reason why we have to use the word most since he was aware that he had naked on one arm and beauty on the other.

[@Mariamunro95]

source.

[@snuuy7015]

Lip tattoos are actually more common than you may think. My (now ex) friend tattooed her own lip at 11… don’t do tgat

[@Riverbend1752]

Having grown up in animal agriculture, I can assure you that tattooing the inside of the lip is done. I've never done it, but I had to learn how for 4-H and FFA skill-a-thons. This is the first time I've heard of a person getting one, though.

[@dishman4694]

I only have 5, small tattoos. But EVERYONE knows you NEVER GET A NAME TATTOO. UNLESS THE PERSON IS ALREADY DEAD.

[@dishman4694]

And on the inverted Wu-Tang tattoo. It’s easy to pull off. I have 2 tattoos in a similar fashion so that it looks correct when I look at it. Not you.

[@wallaceluna6241]

1:12 no sir that’s a dude who navigates the planes on the ground waving two red flags at you telling yo ass to “Run cuh” Edit - imo tho. It could just be she had a bad relationship where she had tatted the name on her body. Dates dudes with that name n it’s her “quirky” pickup line. Either one of these situations explains this.

[@cjgaming3605]

Imma get "sin" and "punishment" in kanji tattooed on my hands as soon as I can >:)

[@mollywelds]

Lol I have "sit here" in my lip

[@suemetzger5302]

I have my husband's name on my ankle along with my 2 sons, if we break up after 39 years married , so he still 1 of my boys, that's what I told the artist

[@skootergirl22]

My sister only got a tiny ribbon bow tattoo on her right foot. No one can see it when she wears shoes so it's not bad

[@trixzXD]

what is that game with the bikes shredders?

[@iconic.menace.]

I want to get a tattoo of my dogs left paw print on my right shoulder or right calf. Then, when my friends & i turn 18 we plan on getting the semi-colon tattoos on our wrists. We've all been through a lot.

[@monatsayuri39]

How bad is getting like the lower shoulder (I wanna get vocaloid numerics)

[@getweirdwes]

You've never seen a tattoo on the inside of a lip bro?

[@ryandoesacting]

It's not exactly the most visible place for a tattoo...

[@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer]

8:30 I actually have 5+4=9 on my foot. RIP Ryan Dunn, he was my favorite Jackass and he died on my 17th birthday :(

[@tylercanales5794]

I’m not a tattoo artist but yes lip tattoos are a thing a KZbin couple that I like are used to like sad like they broke up. The boyfriend got the girls name tattooed on the inside of his lap.

[@VTXTL]

Me and my sister got matching tattoos. They’re both in Japanese. Hers translates to onions and mine to layered vegetable. Yes we know that’s what it means and yes we love them 😂

[@cameronhoy2817]

I have a tattoo on the inside of my lip every one says they fade 6 months to a year i got it when i was 15 im 32 now and its still as vivd and clear as ever the tatto is NJ i was young and dumb and if my body ever showed up somewhere they atleast knew where to start looking

[@musicgirl12357]

Also, for the last one he could use laser then cover it up.

[@SenseiRaisen]

The Jeffrey/Geoffrey dillema. I guess was probably that one in story 14.