Top 10 Tattoo Regrets Revealed By Premier Laser

By Mary Basiadima, 14 July 2015

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

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

Removal or covering your tattoo

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

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 supposed to. With today’s advanced laser so you can have it covered.

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

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

With innovative technology advances,, enabling anyone and with a Tattoo removal they want painlessly, and quickly.

Top 10 tattoo regrets

10. Fairy

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

9. Signs Of The Zodiac

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

8. Celtic Designs

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

7. Chinese Symbols

David Beckham has them, Megan Fox has them, Justin Bieber has them and Britney Spears has them. They can often be mistaken for something else and are for meaning different to what the owner thought 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 definitely over for many owners of Chinese symbol tattoo with them being the most regrettable tattoo designs in this study.

6. Butterfly

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

5. Stars

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

4. Barbed Wire

Pamela Anderson was most definitely the of this 1990’s tattoo fad, with Cheryl Fernandez paying homage to the design 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 Babes for long.

3. A Quote Misspelled From A Language

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

2. Dolphin

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

1. Ex Partner’s Name

The tattoo taboo is having your ex partner’s name inked on your body. tattoos will last forever (without treatment), relationships aren’t always as reliably 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 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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