hi, i am jay and i have a terrible tattoo.

Hi guys, I am Jay and I love terrible tattoos. Alice has me along for the ride to discuss the absolute awesomeness of total crap zapped into people's skin.

I have a really bad tattoo, it's of a "rune" on my leg. At the time I listened to a lot of black metal and swore I was going get a whole bunch of runes. One day an ex girlfriend of mine wanted to get her belly button pierced. While at the shop I wanted to get a cheap tattoo to show off how cool I was. Well I made the worst possible choice and I just have this dumb arrow on my leg that means "warrior" in rune speak. Anyway, one day I will cover it up with something less retarded.


I will do my best to find the worst possible tattoos to contribute to this very important blogging experiment.

When bad tattoos come full circle and become awesome

I bring you the most amazing collection of terrible tattoos that you could ever imagine. This fine young gentleman has agreed to let me post his awful tattoos and stories for your reading pleasure. Behold, the best bad tattoos in the world. They are so bad they are now officially AWESOME. I will let him explain in his own words:

My friend came down from Toronto to visit for a week or two. My roommate Tyson came home one night with about 3 friends, 2 cases of beer, a bottle of whiskey, a bottle of vodka, a tattoo machine, needles and ink. We all start drinking and hanging out and having a really good time, then one of his friends suggests we get the gun out and start setting it up.

Not a single person before this had ever held a tattoo gun.

We get the thing running, set the needles in place, put on gloves etc etc and begin to tattoo each other. (different needles, gloves, etc for each person, not totally sanitary but not extremely dirty) after about hour 3 of tattooing the absolute most ridiculous shit on each other we end up falling asleep. Wake up the next morning and most people had no recollection of what had happened and will forever be reminded about the night they forgot they got tattooed.

Here are mine:


I think in the corner there we have a straightedge pyramid with an eye, like on the dollar bill?


The guy with the muscle arms at the top was supposed to be a CUPCAKE, by the way. There is also a cat with butterfly eyes and a mustache dreaming of... something?

But wait... there's more!!!


I had just gotten to a friends house kind of late at night, she was watching an episode of that Housewives of Orange County and i walked in on the part of the show where one of their daughters had told the parents she had gotten a tattoo. They started flipping out wanting to know WHAT and WHERE it was. She finally shows them this butterfly about the size of a dime on her foot.

So... i asked "i wonder how pissed they would've been if she wouldve came home with a bunch of random bugs all over her feet?".




Getting tattoos based on an awful reality tv show is possibly the worst idea in the world, especially if they are weird stickerbook bugs on your FEET, but this is just so funny and bad that I think it's pure genius.

This guy is my new hero.

More reader-submitted tattoos

Dear Readers,

Thank you so much for putting up with my laziness and still sending me photos of terrible, awful, no good tattoos. Thanks to you I have three new beauties to show today!

Love,
Alice

The first tattoo that I have for you all is a chest piece.

Now, I know chest tattoos can be tricky to get right. Mine is not all that great (I might be getting it redone soon). It can be the best looking spot or the most awkward looking spot, and, unfortunately, this one just looks awkward. The great reader who emailed me this photo said that it looks like a Lisa Frank tattoo, and she is so right! I am not sure what is going on inside the heart- is that a landscape of some kind? The waves look awkward and the stars over them are superfluous, not to mention the weird swirls on the bottom.
One good thing is that the execution looks decent enough, although how gross is it that they didn't use a paper towel to cover her up? All the ink and goo has seeped into her shirt!

This next one is pretty small, but worth looking at all the same:

A heart with crossbones is a cute idea, and the little line stars are traditional and can be good filler on some tattoos, but jeeeeez louise what is going on with the black shading? And the linework looks so sharp it makes me wince just to look at it!

This one was submitted by the same reader, and may be from the same artist:

Again, the linework is beyond awful. The composition is beyond awful. And is the princesses name Reesie?
I must admit I do kind of like the awkward little bumblebees though, as terrible as they are.

If you have a terrible tattoo to share with me, don't hesitate to email!

Singapore Tattoo Convention

(Uploaded on April 15) Here are the pictures from the Singapore Tattoo Convention 2009 !! Finally huh? Hahaha !!

Please note that this was back in January 2009. Lots of things have changed since then. For now, I will keep it under suspense until I update you guys on my Blood, Sex & Ink Tour !!

Chris Garver from Miami Ink

Bob Tyrrell - The Legend !!

Kim and Chris Garver

Bob and I, Checking out some machines..

Cecilia came to touch up her tattoo before going to the convention... VAIN !!

Paul Booth !! Holding my artwork to him.. Wasssup !!

Shane and I

Daphne and I ( Some asshole will try to steal this picture too )

My Canvases !!

Ladies Representing Immortal Tattoos !!

Cecilia trying to pose with Carlston, but I guess its not working... Haha !!

Thats all Folks !!

Zirca

Your Body is a Playground @ Zirca
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Special Performances include:
Body suspensions, ritual, blood play by
Roland, VISAVAJARA, Freiburg,
Shane, Galaxy Tattoos, Ink Tank Zurich.
Susan, Ink Tank, Zurich
Wellie, Welie Piercing, Fribourg


What better way to start of Chastity : Artistry of Unsound Minds ? Party !!

Shane on the suspension

Shane and Roland

Carlston and me !!

Jocelyn with the Jug.. Ooops !!

Alex checking on me if I have fever..Haha !!

You don't wanna know what was caught few seconds before this !!

I love you Carlston !!

Daphne Ang - Covermodel of FLASHInk Magazine

Lauren and Moi !

Edmund going wild !

Justin - The quiet boy...

Alex Flashing !!

I have no idea what happened..!!

Here we go again.

Bea and Me - My Chacha dance partner.. hehe !!

Pam and Bea by my side.. What can I say?

Thanks Bea for the pictures !! We partied on through the night, going home wasted as usual. This might explain why there hasn't been much updates... Haha !!

These were bad enough to bring my posting back from the dead

So as I'm sure you can tell, I haven't been posting here a lot lately. I've been busy at work, and haven't really come across many new tattoos that are worth mentioning. However, I got an email a few days ago that seriously shook me up. Check out these terrible tattoos, all by the same artist working out of a "pro" shop.


Was the kanji there already, and the rest of the tattoo worked around it? Or was it all designed in one piece? Why is the kanji overlapping with the star? What is that weird black V at the top? It's all a total mystery, and it's all TERRIBLE.


This just makes me think of a pile of pubes, I'm sorry.


...... I don't even know what to say about this. It's not as terrible as the others but it just seems so... sad.

Chasity - Artistry of Unsound Minds

Hi all !!

Some of you might know about the Blood, Sex & Ink Tour which will be held in Melbourne and Tasmania, Australia in 2009 !!

So, in accordance to that, I would be bringing something closer to home for the folks here and also to those who will be visiting the Singapore Tattoo Convention in January 2009 !!

This is not a tour but more of a private event where 3 main elements will be showcased - Inking on Skin & Paper and Photography, brought to you by Immortal Tattoos, Singapore.

Venue : Immortal Tattoos, Singapore
Date : 8th Jan 2009 - 12th Jan 2009
Time : Not Confirmed

Looking for -

*5 human canvases to be Inked.
*5 Artist of Different Medium to put their flavors on Paper.
*8 Females with Tattoos to be Photographed.

Want to be part of it?

Do let us know on why we should choose you for this one time event in a lifetime !!

Just email me @ Immortal_Tattoos@mail.com

Please note -
*Ladies who wish to be Photographed should email their pictures.
*Artist should email their artwork.
*The Human Canvases are free to give an idea of what they want but at the end of the day, its entirely up to the artist.