27 Totally Terrible and Painfully Awful Tattoos

Tattoo fails are a special kind of fail -- not only do they, at least those of the "outside jail" variety, cost a pretty penny, they also require what one would hope is a fully thought-through commitment to whatever you're getting inked. The evidence here however points in, well, another direction.

One struggles to imagine what the thought process behind most of these would have been, if there even was such a thought process. Did the person really think it was a good idea? Did those around them ever get a whiff of the idea before it happened, and did they, (perhaps even worse), approve and support the idea? What about after the fact? Did these people leave the parlor thinking they had just made a good decision, or did it hit them like a ton of bricks falling from the sky, that just maybe they'd made a permanent mistake?