I bet being a tattoo artist would be a very interesting profession.
You meet people from all different walks of life every day, and you get to know a lot about them while you dig that needle into their skin for a few hours (or more).
But some artists out there refuse to tattoo certain things on people, believe it or not.
AskReddit users who work as tattoo artists talked about when they had to refuse to put ink on customers. Let’s see what happened.
1. No way!
“I was asked to put a full-fledged erect p**is on someone’s back, right above his a** crack. Veins and all.
I would have considered it but there was some heavy breathing involved and…yeah, no, I do not want to spend hours and hours lovingly fulfilling your d**k-ink fetish, thanks very much.”
2. Don’t do it.
“An 18 year old girl wanted her considerably older boyfriend’s name just above her private area for her first tattoo.
A hard no, and I had to explain why it wasn’t a good decision.”
3. Bad idea.
“I was asked to put a full-fledged erect p**is on someone’s back, right above his a** crack. Veins and all.
I would have considered it but there was some heavy breathing involved and…yeah, no, I do not want to spend hours and hours lovingly fulfilling your d**k-ink fetish, thanks very much.”
4. Tough guy tats.
“I had a conversation with my tattoo artist about this.
He said he wouldn’t do any “instant tough guy” tattoos, mainly face, neck or hand tattoos, unless the person already had a good deal of coverage on other parts of their body.”
5. Nope.
“Someone wanted to tattoo shark/dragon eyes, like those on old bomber planes.
On the sides of the p**is tip…”
6. One exception.
“My friend won’t do names unless it’s their children.
They could have it tattood over, but they’d still forever know what’s underneath it.
And the shop doesn’t do removals.”
7. Not on my watch.
“You get 18 year old boys who wanna look heavily tattooed by just getting hands and neck and I always refuse to do them.
sometimes they come back later on with the tattoos they’ve asked for done by someone who clearly can’t tattoo.”
8. No hate.
“Hate symbols are always a hard no.”
9. Please leave.
“I was a tattoo artist and I was asked to draw a dog with a human head, shark fins, cat legs, and a lizard tail.
At first I went along with it but i asked to make sure that was what he wanted. He then said “give it a d***” i just asked him to leave.
This was a few years ago and still remember it very clearly.”
10. Sounds really awesome.
“A sw**tika making love to a Confederate flag.”
11. Kind of sad.
“I was asked by a maniac to tattoo 4 years worth of his dead girlfriend’s essays all over him until there isn’t a spot with his skin color left.”
12. Makes sense to me.
“Anybody clearly fu**ed up.
Anybody who couldn’t pay.”
We want to hear from more tattoo artists out there!
In the comments, tell us some more stories about weird interactions with customers.
Please and thank you!
