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Channel 4 documentary (UK) - “My Tattoo Addiction”

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-tattoo-addiction/4od

(you can watch this in the UK for the next couple of weeks, not sure about the USA, sorry!)

SUBMITTER’S COMMENT:

This was the saddest show :( I watched it after reading the blurb:

“This film explores the world of tattoos; the artists, the reasons why people have them and what happens when they regret them.”

Over half the tattoos on the show were AWFUL (and I even kinda like some bad tattoos) but seriously really awful, and the people getting them weren’t into the art, but obsessive people, who could have been on a whole other show about people with too much money and OCDs - it featured a guy with c*nt tattooed on him several times (got when he was drunk, in Ayia Napa) and some guy with a Miley Cyrus obsession. Its worth it to see the scary demon head Miley he gets - its meant to just be her face, but I swear to you, it’s a hell demon.

I was really sad to watch it, because it made out that people who get a lot of tattoos are crazy and that tattoos are ugly and deforming. The quality of the work they showed was bad - including a girl that set up a studio in her own home. With cats.

I’m kind of angry that Channel 4 chose this as a way of showing off “why people have tattoos”…although I could certainly see why some people would regret them, after watching this :(