It has been well documented in the past (most recently by the pictured 'DRAKE' tattoo on the forehead of a psychotic and eyebrowless fan) that there are some proper howlers in the world of body ink.
Before we go on, it is important to note that we are well aware of the endless supply of god awful tattoos linked to music. Girls with Take That logos on their cleavages and boys with ODB tattoos on their armpits to name but two lowly examples. If we had decided to do a list of the worst fan tattoos we would have found ourselves in even deeper trouble, sifting through a mire of absolutely criminal inky smears. "Is that a tattoo of Bez? No it's Mariah Carey."
On that note, and just so you know, this list in no way proclaims that "THESE ARE OFFICIALLY THE TEN WORST TATTOOS TO HAVE EVER GRACED THE GRUBBY BODIES OF MUSICAL ROYALTY."
Okay, so maybe it is doing that, but you cannot hate on us for missing out a few catastrophic ink jobs here and there. There are literally so, so many. These are just our favourite worst ones. We hate them and love them in equal measure.
ENJOY.
10 - AMY WINEHOUSE
Amy frequented the local tattoo parlour almost as much as the local smack house. She peppered her body with filthy relics of past conquests and other weird imagery. We don't want to be rude about the late and great Amy Winehouse, not one bit, it's just her selection of tattoos were pretty pony.
9 - KID ROCK
Kid Rock got one thing right with his gargantuan back tattoo, he is American, so he deserves credit there. The trouble is, and we are not sure if he is still unaware of this, but he is so clearly not a badass that it might be worse telling him now about that factual mistake, than it would be to just let him get on with it.
The Linkin Park frontman doesn't necessarily need a tattoo specific gunning, it is more the entire package that deserves to be condemned and ridiculed. Bullied at school much? SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!
7 - JERMAINE DUPRI
In homage to his plastic wife Janet Jackson, hip hop producer Jermaine Dupri saw it wise one day to get a huge portrait portraying her as The Virgin Mary. Now while Janet's sexy exploits are slightly more hush hush than her more famous brother MJ's were, it is fair to say that she is not (and probably never was) a virgin.
6 - ADAM LEVINE
Apparently Adam Levine was born and raised in Los Angeles, but we don't believe him. We think he was born in Romford and spent most of his time down Lakeside Centre in the food court.
5 - RICKY MARTIN
Is a complete tool. His arm tattoo looks like a child was bought forward through time from ancient arabia to draw it. Ricky Martin's tattoo artist needs to stop "Living La Vida NO-ca" immediately.
4 - VANILLA ICE
Once the most famous rapper on the planet, Vanilla Ice infamously spunked his ludicrously huge fortune and ended up running a motorcycle shop, spitting freestyles to himself when no-one was in the showroom. Vanilla Ice is now so broke that he uses highlighter pens, instead of tattoo guns to decorate his body.
3 - LILY ALLEN
Style goddess, general honey, and all-round mouthy Londoner, the now retired singer got a rather cute 'Shhh' tattoo on her finger a couple of years back. She quickly found out that Rihanna had the exact same tattoo on her finger and has felt like a copycat chump ever since.
2 - FRED DURST
First things first, Fred Durst is a complete idiot. Second things second, regarding the aforementioned fact that the he ranks so highly on the idiot scale, means that it should be illegal for him to get tattoos of such rad people.
1 - ALICIA KEYS
This clunky message must be Alicia's biggest regret IN LIFE EVER. There is always a time in an R'n'B singers career where parachute pants and midriff revealing crop tops are a must, and tattoos are always going to play a part in this career stage, however, getting a 'THINK 4 URSELF' tramp stamp plastered on your back from stage left all--the-way to stage right is (in our humble opinion) as bad as it gets.
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Posted 6th January by Livemusic Team
