looks better aged given the subject

This still looks in good condition

I was half-expecting the wave to have crashed.

The black-scale stuff looks good.

I mean, it is small print very close together. You know it is going to bleed a little so this was a bad call, the tattoo artist should have told them this would happen. Maybe they did..

Older ink, tight small lettering... That's what happens

Looks like what my eyesight is with glasses on the left, and without glasses on the right! :-)

Too small, too deep

Some better sense of scale would be nice, and maybe a properly focused shot? Yes, the small, detailed lettering seems to have smudged or spread or whatever, but we can't even tell how small the lettering really is.

That was way too close together and small for it to work. Plus it's no longer straight anymore.

Elvish script for “bad tattoo job.”

These photos are reversed. It looks like Gaelic or Anglo-Saxon (there's definitely an insular r) but all the letters are backwards.

yes, stupid tattoo

This kind of blurring is so annoying, wish there was some way of keeping the original crispness....

This is a big disappointment. Don't have any myself, but like to check out other people's choices. Is this how it always would go after 10 years? Sorry. Not much can improve it either I suppose.

Heavy handed. All day.

I couldn't understand much in a fresh one as well.

well...no one knew what it said anyways xD

35 "fresh" is fake...its covered with edding or eyeliner...if you dont belive-look at the a in happy

It's called a blowout. Happens when the needle goes too deep into the skin. Fingers are very hard to do, the skin is flimsy. It could happen the most skilled artists. It's just a poor choice in placement. That's all.

Just to make it clear - difference between those pictures is 3 years, 5 times change of hair color and some photoshop in both pictures. In real, my tattoo still looks good and almost the same. Good shot but not even close to reality.

Still looks okay

Interesting tribal design. A quick touch up should do the trick, that's the nice part about a tribal tattoo

Looks cute and I like it better aged.

A decomposed Michael Jackson...

The dark tone of the current one actually compliments the fact that it should represent an ancient Celtic symbol. Giving it a touch-up would be nice, but won't be all that necessary

that's really not that bad.

sunscreen, people. Reds and oranges will hot hold up to UV light.

Where on the body is this? Context would be great... Looks like the foot to me, which would make this fading make perfect sense.

Better this way

Looks like this shark is having "A whale of a time!" Laughing away :p

It's inside you mouth!! What would you expect?? ;-;

My example pic for everyone who wants a fingertattoo

why???

This one almost looks intentional, like the words really disappearing, like they do on the map.

Bad place and a bad quality of the ink

How much better cameras they've had 14 years ago!!! Unbelievable :)

I don't know why artists did tattoos on this parts of a boby. They know that the tatt fades out on feets and fingers

Wtf

Not sure what they expected when they decided to get a tattoo on their palm

Evern fresh bad work

finger tattoos are awful

This wasn't done well.

Still doesn't know how to focus

What the heck is it?

that looked awful even when fresh

LOL, this is not a tatto. More likely it was written with a whiteboard marker.