1. Tribal: Amazingly trendy, shows a complete lack of personality and/or orginal thought. It's more or less the same thing as saying "I wanted to have a tattoo, but I am really uncreative". Besides, tribal tattoos are traditionally used to show your heritage. That's like getting a random person's family crest tattooed on you. Bad idea.
2. Asian lettering: The fact is, you don't really know what it says. I'm sure the artist tells you that the pretty flash on the wall really means something cool, but you just might end up like this girl and have the term "Crazy Diarrhea" on you forever. How would that make you feel?
3. Barbed wire: Unless you are a hardcore professinal wrestler, just don't get it.
4. Bargain portraits: If you are trying to get someone's face on you forever, don't go looking around for the lowest price. Like many things in life, you get what you pay for. If you look for the lowest price possible on your Elvis tattoo, you are going to have pepole asking you "Is that supposed to be Johnny Cash or John Goodman?" for the rest of your life.
More to come later.
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And seriously just don't get a portrait of anyone unless Renshaw's doing it.
I can't tell you how many people I've seen in tattoo magazines with "portraits" of family members that are just straight fucked up. My favorite is the dad who got his babies that all looked like they had down syndrom after the tattoo was finished.
Reminds me of myself a bit, I suppose.
I don't know enough about the subject.