No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever

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No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever

POSTED: Monday, June 9, 2008, 8:24 PM

skull tat: owc

Shock and Ew

Estimated cost of laser tattoo removal for each skin-canvas catastrophe seems to be the only thing missing from the eyesore-fest that is No Regrets: The Best, Worst & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever. The book's creators, Aviva Yael and P.M. Chen, scoured tattoo parlors and stalked their patrons for the yearlong wild ink chase behind this gem.

his inner chatch

While it's mostly a picture book, the captions layer more comedy onto the images, sometimes offering personal insight — beneath a tattoo tribute to a video game controller rests the caption: "My ovaries just peed themselves out and flushed themselves down the toilet" — and sometimes stating the obvious: A stomach tattoo of the word "hungry" comes with the caption, "Clearly."

r.i.p., o.d.b. :(

Many of the featured images are celebrity or character likenesses, running the gamut from Chuck Norris to Zach Morris and including a worrisome stalkerish trinity of Gwen Stefani tattoos on a single rabid fan.

Still more are likenesses of a lesser-known celebrity in a near-forgotten role — David Spade as "Joe Dirt" — makes an appearance. If you can't imagine why someone might ink that image across their person in full-color, full-size glory, the book will likely amuse or deter you.

Sometimes the images aren't as wild as their placement: Dr. Phil beams knowingly from an area best viewed under cover of clothing.

The vast majority, after celeb tributes, are videogame tributes, though there are also references to aliens, Christianity and odd sexual fetishes thrown into the mix, sometimes all in one ink job.

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