Among men who regret their tattoos, 24 percent cited their bicep as the ink’s location. The most common location of an unwanted tat-by a wide margin-is on a dude’s bicep. *All figures courtesy of It’s On Your Bicep But as those survey results suggests, a lot of guys aren’t so lucky.Ĭonsidering a new piece of body art yourself? Keep reading to learn about the kinds of tattoos men are most likely to regret. He eventually changed his mind when his husband confessed that he’d always liked the tattoo. He looked into the costs of removal, and also considered having his whole arm inked in order to conceal his mistake. Harris says that, by the time he hit his late 20s, he was fed up with his tattoo. Roughly half of all men who get tattoos end up regretting them, according to a new tattoo survey from. “I've never been in the military, so it came off as random or even poser-ish, and I quickly got tired of trying to explain it.”
“I got this tattoo on my right bicep that I thought would be kind of simple and abstract but actually looks like an army tattoo, because it looks like sergeant stripes,” he says. Pete Harris went under the needle just a few days after he turned 18.