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<p>There are a lot of wild tattoos in the world &mdash; but the even crazier ones don&#39;t even exist, because tattoo artists refused to do them.</p><p>Yes, tattoo artists actually have a right to refuse service to anyone who strolls in the door looking to get a butterfly permanently stamped on their forehead, or whatever. A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fgpjoq/tattoo_artists_of_reddit_who_have_refused_a/">recent Reddit thread</a> asked ink-slingers to name the most questionable tattoos they&#39;ve ever had the pleasure of turning down &mdash; and boy, are there some doozies.</p><h2>1. Plenty of tattoo artists will turn away visibly drunk people and minors, thank god.</h2><blockquote> <p>A girl came in to the shop and was SMASHED, actually laid down on the floor and screamed &ldquo;BUt I WaNT MY NOSE PIERCED RIGHT NOWWWW!&rdquo; Also turned away a wasted mother/daughter duo. That time, the drunk mother argued &ldquo;she&rsquo;s not drunk, I&rsquo;m her mother!&rdquo; Lady, you can&rsquo;t sign a permission slip to make someone sober. - _rummagingsoul</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. The Eye of Sauron would&#39;ve probably been more apt.</h2><blockquote> <p>Lord of the rings ring around their butthole. No thanks. - oldcoffee</p> </blockquote><h2>3. And apparently, that location is a common request.</h2><blockquote> <p>From my friend that does tattoos he turns down more request to do butthole tats then he ever thought he&#39;d have to. - gil_beard</p> </blockquote><h2>4. This one&#39;s really sad &mdash; and thank god the artist got this grieving mom to change her mind.</h2><blockquote> <p>A lady whose child recently died Wanted me to tattoo &ldquo;you should have saved her&rdquo; on her chest. I convinced her to get the symbol for mental health (semi colon) and baby footprints instead. This woman was devastated, we talked a lot during her session And I always wonder how she is doing. - Grandnaguss</p> </blockquote><h2>5. The same artist turned in an animal abuser to the authorities.</h2><blockquote> <p>another guy came in - he had one leg so I thought he was interesting, he wanted a tattoo on his hand and asked if it was ok to tattoo it since he had recently broken it (his hand), I said it was fine as long as it was healed up. I asked out of curiosity how he broke his hand and he said &ldquo;I punched my dog&rdquo;. I got him to fill out the form with his name and address and asked casually where the dog was and he just said &ldquo;gone now&rdquo;. Told him I was sorry that I couldn&rsquo;t do his tattoo and then turned his Shit in to the cops. I should have just taken his other leg. Fucker. - Grandnaguss</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. Tattoo artists will also refuse people who want offensive tats.</h2><blockquote> <p>Something generally offensive. Like the guy who wanted &#39;Party Girl Anne Frank&#39; because his drinking buddies called him Frankie. - Wind_Yer_Neck</p> </blockquote><h2>7. Many won&#39;t do tattoos in prominent places if the person isn&#39;t already pretty covered in ink.</h2><blockquote> <p>My tattoo artist friend says she automatically turns away all hand, face and neck tattoos unless the client is already heavily tattooed. Her reason is that she doesn&#39;t want the backlash of future regret due to &quot;job-stopper&quot; tattoos. - odyysseyy</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Basically my policy. I won&#39;t screw up someone&#39;s life and job chances on a one off decision. If they are already covered in tattoos either their profession doesn&#39;t care or they&#39;ve long since sailed that ship. - Anukari</p> </blockquote><h2>8. Taint tattoos? Taint gonna happen.</h2><blockquote> <p>Some dude wanted his girlfriends initials on his taint and requested a female artist to do it. We kindly denied it because a.) not 100% sure how that would heal and didn&rsquo;t want to deal with him coming back with issues trying to pin it on us, and b.) our only female artist didn&rsquo;t want to go near some random dudes taint... - GoreTiciaAddams</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. Hasn&#39;t this guy ever heard of nail art?</h2><blockquote> <p>[My tattoo artist said] he once had a guy want a tattoo under his thumbnail, like he was gonna rip the nail off, then come in to the studio so he could get a tattoo that would eventually be protected by a new thumb nail - bloodectomy</p> </blockquote><h2>10. Turning down hate symbols seems like a great policy.</h2><blockquote> <p>I turn away anything with swazis, bolts, or other racist bull****. I also ask what any symbols I don&#39;t know are, and confirm before doing them.</p> <p>I don&#39;t need some racist s*** running people off. - BjOaNMeRzz</p> </blockquote><h2>11. This guy should be thanking everyone involved in <em>not</em> making his sun-nipple dream into a reality.</h2><blockquote> <p>I wanted to tattoo one of my nipples as part of a piece on my ribcage. I wanted to put sunglasses above the nip tip and rays around it to turn my nip into the sun for it. Fortunately, they knew me well enough to say, &quot;Dude, you cried getting your ribcage done, your nipple would be even worse and it won&#39;t take the ink as well. I like the idea but no&quot; Mad respect to artists that keep it real like that. - punkrockpizza</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. Yeah, it&#39;s time for the inspirational anchor quotes to go.</h2><blockquote> <p>My managers brother runs a tattoo shop and if I remember right they turned down a lot of young white girls when the anchor tattoo on the ankle with something like &ldquo;refuse to sink&rdquo; or some s*** because anchors are literally made to sink - _retail_btch_</p> </blockquote><h2>13. This is not only stupid, but would force some poor artist to hold your junk for over an hour.</h2><blockquote> <p>Not a tattoo artist but a friend is. He turned down a guy who wanted a fly coming out of the head of his penis. - heysharkdontdotaht</p> </blockquote><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

13 tattoo artists share customers' tattoo ideas they refused to do.

There are a lot of wild tattoos in the world &mdash; but the even crazier ones don&#39;t even exist, because tattoo artists refused to do them.Yes, tattoo artists actually have a right to refuse service to anyone who strolls in the door looking to get a butterfly permanently stamped on their forehead, or whatever. A recent Reddit thread asked ink-slingers to name the most questionable tattoos they&#39;ve ever had the pleasure of turning down &mdash; and boy, are there some doozies.1. Plenty of tattoo artists will turn away visibly drunk people and minors, thank god. A girl came in to the shop and was SMASHED, actually laid down on the floor and screamed &ldquo;BUt I WaNT MY NOSE PIERCED RIGHT NOWWWW!&rdquo; Also turned away a wasted mother/daughter duo. That time, the drunk mother argued &ldquo;she&rsquo;s not drunk, I&rsquo;m her mother!&rdquo; Lady, you can&rsquo;t sign a permission slip to make someone sober. - _rummagingsoul 2. The Eye of Sauron would&#39;ve probably been more apt. Lord of the rings ring around their butthole. No thanks. - oldcoffee 3. And apparently, that location is a common request. From my friend that does tattoos he turns down more request to do butthole tats then he ever thought he&#39;d have to. - gil_beard 4. This one&#39;s really sad &mdash; and thank god the artist got this grieving mom to change her mind. A lady whose child recently died Wanted me to tattoo &ldquo;you should have saved her&rdquo; on her chest. I convinced her to get the symbol for mental health (semi colon) and baby footprints instead. This woman was devastated, we talked a lot during her session And I always wonder how she is doing. - Grandnaguss 5. The same artist turned in an animal abuser to the authorities. another guy came in - he had one leg so I thought he was interesting, he wanted a tattoo on his hand and asked if it was ok to tattoo it since he had recently broken it (his hand), I said it was fine as long as it was healed up. I asked out of curiosity how he broke his hand and he said &ldquo;I punched my dog&rdquo;. I got him to fill out the form with his name and address and asked casually where the dog was and he just said &ldquo;gone now&rdquo;. Told him I was sorry that I couldn&rsquo;t do his tattoo and then turned his Shit in to the cops. I should have just taken his other leg. Fucker. - Grandnaguss 6. Tattoo artists will also refuse people who want offensive tats. Something generally offensive. Like the guy who wanted &#39;Party Girl Anne Frank&#39; because his drinking buddies called him Frankie. - Wind_Yer_Neck 7. Many won&#39;t do tattoos in prominent places if the person isn&#39;t already pretty covered in ink. My tattoo artist friend says she automatically turns away all hand, face and neck tattoos unless the client is already heavily tattooed. Her reason is that she doesn&#39;t want the backlash of future regret due to &quot;job-stopper&quot; tattoos. - odyysseyy  Basically my policy. I won&#39;t screw up someone&#39;s life and job chances on a one off decision. If they are already covered in tattoos either their profession doesn&#39;t care or they&#39;ve long since sailed that ship. - Anukari 8. Taint tattoos? Taint gonna happen. Some dude wanted his girlfriends initials on his taint and requested a female artist to do it. We kindly denied it because a.) not 100% sure how that would heal and didn&rsquo;t want to deal with him coming back with issues trying to pin it on us, and b.) our only female artist didn&rsquo;t want to go near some random dudes taint... - GoreTiciaAddams 9. Hasn&#39;t this guy ever heard of nail art? [My tattoo artist said] he once had a guy want a tattoo under his thumbnail, like he was gonna rip the nail off, then come in to the studio so he could get a tattoo that would eventually be protected by a new thumb nail - bloodectomy 10. Turning down hate symbols seems like a great policy. I turn away anything with swazis, bolts, or other racist bull****. I also ask what any symbols I don&#39;t know are, and confirm before doing them. I don&#39;t need some racist s*** running people off. - BjOaNMeRzz 11. This guy should be thanking everyone involved in not making his sun-nipple dream into a reality. I wanted to tattoo one of my nipples as part of a piece on my ribcage. I wanted to put sunglasses above the nip tip and rays around it to turn my nip into the sun for it. Fortunately, they knew me well enough to say, &quot;Dude, you cried getting your ribcage done, your nipple would be even worse and it won&#39;t take the ink as well. I like the idea but no&quot; Mad respect to artists that keep it real like that. - punkrockpizza 12. Yeah, it&#39;s time for the inspirational anchor quotes to go. My managers brother runs a tattoo shop and if I remember right they turned down a lot of young white girls when the anchor tattoo on the ankle with something like &ldquo;refuse to sink&rdquo; or some s*** because anchors are literally made to sink - _retail_btch_ 13. This is not only stupid, but would force some poor artist to hold your junk for over an hour. Not a tattoo artist but a friend is. He turned down a guy who wanted a fly coming out of the head of his penis. - heysharkdontdotaht  

There are a lot of wild tattoos in the world &mdash; but the even crazier ones don&#39;t even exist, because tattoo artists refused to do them.  Yes, tattoo artists actually have a right to refuse service to anyone who strolls in the door...