15 celebrities who regret their tattoos
Pharrell Williams, Mark Wahlberg or Britney Spears are some of the well-known faces who have regretted having had a certain tattoo.
Many of us have been through the same thing as the celebrities featured in this article: you get a tattoo that you love at the moment, something that seems really important to you, but that you regret a few years later. It is something that should not be surprising, since having something that is permanently on the skin has consequences and in the long run it can happen that you get tired of seeing it or that you no longer like it. That is why one of the most widespread recommendations when it comes to getting a tattoo and choosing the area in which to do it is to opt for a part of the body that you do not see often in order to "forget" that you have that temptation there.
People often regret tattoos they got when they were very young, claiming they never thought it through ... Although sometimes people just regret the fact that they ever got too many tattoos or that they got them for love -how typical to tattoo the name or the initial letter of the name of your partner at that time-.
Whether it's because their tattoo was a spontaneous decision, the name of whoever is now ex, or simply something that gets in the way of their career, these celebrities have publicly expressed their regret for certain tattoos. Some have decided to cover their ink with other designs, while others chose to go through the painful process of removal in order to get rid of them for good. This group includes 15 celebrities that you know very well, although not so much that they regretted their tattoos at some point. Take a look at these names who wish they never made the trip to the tattoo parlor.
Pharrell Williams
At one point, Pharrell Williams told the British Daily Mirror that he was opting for a very different way to remove some of the tattoos that he no longer wanted: regenerative skin treatment. Similar to a skin graft, it basically grows new skin. And he added, "It's going to be expensive, but ... it's worth it. I have fire in my arms, I don't need fire in my arms! I'm a grown man." In the end, Williams did remove his tattoos, but he did so with a regular laser treatment.
Jennifer Lawrence
While speaking at Comic-Con 2015, Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she had gotten a spontaneous tattoo that she later regretted. When she was dating Liam Hemsworth, the two got tattooed together, and Lawrence chose a small "H2o" on her hand to remind herself that she should stay hydrated.
Unfortunately, the representation was objectively incorrect. "I should have Googled it before tattooing it on my body forever. My two is up, and in H2O the two is supposed to be low." Fortunately for Lawrence, the tattoo is small, very faded, and barely noticeable.
Ryan reynolds
The actor has several tattoos on his body that he got when he was younger, and in an interview with The New Yorker he said bluntly: "I hate them all." He pointed out that he doesn't like the three hours it takes to cover them with makeup and said that "if it weren't hours and hours of brutal pain," he would take them all off with lasers. And he added: "But my wife says that she should keep them, to have a record of the decisions that I have made."
Megan fox
Megan Fox has a few tattoos that she is interested in getting rid of, and she has already removed one, a large image of Marilyn Monroe on her forearm. During an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Fox spoke of the pain of removing that tattoo. She said that while getting a tattoo is not that bad, taking it off is, and she equated the laser to "your skin like it explodes and it looks like little grains of popcorn come out."
She added that she got a lot of her tattoos when she was a teenager, saying, "I was stubborn and I thought that I would love him forever, or that it would be like a book of my life, all the things that I loved when I was younger. And it's not that. absolutely".
Nicki minaj
When she was 16 years old, Nicki Minaj had Chinese characters tattooed on her arm that said "God is with me always." She later explained that she wished she hadn't, saying, "Too young. You have no idea what you want to put in your body at 16. You have to wait at least until 21 and decide."
Mark Wahlberg
It's probably been a long time since anyone has seen tattoos on Mark Wahlberg. Although he had them in his arms early in his career (one was a big picture of Bob Marley on the biceps), the actor has taken them away. In an interview, he explained, "[All tattoos] have meaning to me, but it's both personal and professional. I don't want my kids to get tattoos." And he added: "And I wanted them to be eliminated by the time I did 'The Fighter' because putting on makeup and covering them up has always been a headache."
Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba has quite a few tattoos, some that she loves and some that she regrets. In an interview with Refinery 29, she said, "I have some tattoos, and I regret one of them ... maybe two." This includes a bow at the bottom of her back, which she calls "some kind of tramp stamp," and flowers at the center of the back of her neck. "I did it to myself when I was like 17 years old and it irritates me a lot having done it," she said. "I had it done with a laser many times and it doesn't come off."
50 Cent
Like other stars, 50 Cent realized that he actually didn't want all the tattoos he had because he hated having to go through hours of makeup to cover them up. He realized this while he was on the set of the movie 'Twelve': his call time was much earlier than everyone else's, just so he could cover his tattoos. "If everyone arrives at 6 in the morning, I arrive at 2. So I was like, 'Oh man, wait,'" he told Bang Showbiz. After that, he began the process of elimination.
Jessie J.
There's a reason why Jessie J.'s tattoo on her upper thigh is often overlooked: she is ashamed of the grammar mistake she has. The tattoo bears the lyrics of his song "Who You Are" and in an Instagram post he wrote: "Yes, my tattoo says ... 'don't loose who you are in the blur of the stars'. Yes, they are MIS lyrics to my song, 'Who You Are'. Yes, I wrote it. Yes, I misspelled the tattoo. Yes, I repeat that it is misspelled. "
She added: "Yes, I had it done in Essex. Yes, the tattoo artist didn't mention it. Yes, I was 18 years old. Yes, I still don't know the difference between losing and loosening up. Yes, it is the reason why I wear everything on my waist. high".
Adam Levine
Adam Levine's torso is basically covered in tattoos, and there is one he wishes he hadn't done. He told Anderson Cooper that it is a tattoo inspired by a Russian prisoner on his right shoulder. He has tried to fix it, but added that the result looks like "a cauliflower with a sun in the middle. It looks despicable."
Britney Spears
Britney Spears has regretted two tattoos (that we know of). One of them is a pair of pink dice on her wrist, which, according to Us Weekly, is one of a matching set - her ex-husband Kevin Federline has it too. In an Instagram post, Spears wrote: "Albert Einstein once said that 'God doesn't play dice with the universe' .... so maybe I shouldn't have gotten the pink 7 dice on my left arm !!!!! I don't even like ink .... I guess I should take it off? !!!! "
Us Weekly also noted that Spears had a Kabbalah tattoo removed from her neck in 2008. It was inspired by Madonna and translated into: "Responsibility for everything in her life and accepting that she can heal herself in every way."
Hailey bieber
Hailey Bieber has more than 20 small tattoos etched on various parts of her body, but there is one that she stands out as something she wishes she had never done: a small tattoo of a gun on her middle finger. When he spoke to Elle, he attributed it to a teenage mistake, saying, "I think at 18, I was like, 'Yeah! That's okay.' But now, at 24, I never would. I think I would. weapons are violent. "
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber is another singer with many tattoos, and there is only one with whom he has expressed a problem: an image of his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez. He told GQ, "This is my ex-girlfriend, so I tried to cut her face off with a little shadow, but people still know."
Khloe kardashian
Khloe Kardashian's repentance is the second tattoo she got to honor her late father: angel wings with the word "Daddy" on the lower back. In an Instagram post about the elimination process, Khloe wrote: "The end of an era .... I became this bad boy when I was 16 ... Not so pretty anymore I should have listened to Kim when he told me 'You don't put a sticker on a Bentley'. Goodbye to the bumper sticker !! Thank you Dr. Ourian !!!! You are the best! "
Blake shelton
One of Blake Shelton's tattoos is barbed wire around deer tracks. In an interview, he explained, "This is what I drew as a deer footprint. To this day, people still come up to me and say, 'Man, ladybugs ... that's cool. What does it mean to you? ? ' I probably have the dirtiest tattoo, not just in country music, but maybe in the world. "
