Top 10 Tattoo Regrets Revealed By Premier Laser

By Mary Basiadima, 14 July 2015

years we have kept a record of the many d. Here is the list, in no order!.

Can you identify with the list? Are you or someone you know guilty of any in the top ten?

Removal or covering your tattoo

Body art has become much more in recent years, with celebrities like David Beckham actively showing off their ink and looking fantastic for it. However, for every and much loved tattoo, there are many that are deeply regretted.

Perhaps they are symbols of emotional scars we want to forget, perhaps they were done on and don’t who we are right now – maybe they simply don’t look good or don’t even mean what they were to. With today’s laser so you can have it covered.

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Previously could be considered a piece of body art, with no real successful being on the market.

show that more than half of people with three or more regret at least one of their . Yet only one in 20 tattoo fans have had their designs either erased or changed, despite technology making far easier.

With technology advances,, anyone and everyone with a tattoo they want removed painlessly, effectively and Emsculpt Neo quickly.

Top 10 tattoo regrets

10. Fairy

90’s sensation Britney Spears has a fairy tattoo, as does The World Is Not Enough star Denise Richards. According to this study, it turns out for some, aren’t always so magical.

9. Signs Of The Zodiac

R&B star Rihanna and heroes star Hayden both have signs of the zodiac tattoos. Did the horoscopes predict regret for the owners of these mystical ?

8. Celtic Designs

actor Jay Baruchel has a large Celtic cross design on his arm, as does singer, songwriter and actor Justin and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine. It looks like the luck of the Irish doesn’t prevent lots of people their own Celtic tattoo .

7. Chinese Symbols

David Beckham has them, Megan Fox has them, Justin Bieber has them and Spears has them. They can often be for something else and are for something different to what the owner they meant, for example; Britneys Chinese symbol on her hip was meant to say ‘mysterious’ but it actually means ‘strange’. They were a huge tattoo fad in the 90’s, but the fad is most over for many owners of Chinese symbol tattoo with them being the seventh most tattoo designs in this study.

6. Butterfly

Mariah Carey has one, Vanessa Hudgens has one as does Paris Hilton and Kelly Osbourne, but these pretty insects don’t stay pretty for long according to our study, with them being the sixth most regrettable tattoo design in the study.

5. Stars

Stars became after super star Rihanna had stars on her back and behind her ear. Jessica Alba, Avril Lavigne and Sienna Miller also all have star tattoos. But at 5th most in the study, many owners of star are wishing upon them to go away.

4. Barbed Wire

Pamela Anderson was most the creator of this 1990’s tattoo fad, with Cheryl Versini paying homage to the design incorporating it with a rose on her thigh. Sadly, as the 4th most regrettable design in the study, it most didn’t keep plenty of barbed wire tattoo owner’s feeling like Baywatch Babes for long.

3. A Quote From A Different Language

Unfortunately, this tattoo issue is common, and usually only gets discovered after the tattoo has been completed. The most famous case of this is with David Beckham who had a Sanskrit tribute to his wife Victoria on his arm, only to find had been spelt ‘Vihctoria’ – proof this kind of tattoo regret can happen to anyone.

2. Dolphin

Another 90’s fad, dolphins adorned the shoulders, feet, hips and other places on peoples skin in the 90’s, but more than a decade later, plenty of dolphin tattoo owners want their marine life art, well and truly released back into the wild.

1. Ex Partner’s Name

The biggest tattoo taboo is having your ex partner’s name inked somewhere on your body. tattoos will last forever ( treatment), relationships definitely aren’t always as permanent. :

All had ‘ex tattoos’ and opted to have them .

We have seen a 25% rise in removals over the last two years as more and more people opt to get body art.

A Premier Laser Clinic spokesperson said:

"When your personal life is a volatile as Katie Price’s it is perhaps not the wisest move to have your husband’s name tattooed on your arm. We have had celebrities in our London clinics quietly erasing tattoos of former lovers made in haste. Without a doubt, the most common tattoo that we remove at Premier Laser Clinic is an ex-partner’s name – we would advise people to think long and carefully before inking their lover’s name onto their skin!.

If you do make a mistake and regret having your tattoo whether it’s and exes name or a baby unicorn!, it has never been easier to remove an unwanted tattoo and we can leave the skin looking almost brand new.The procedure is quick and pain-free."

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