Plot Synopsis

Using re-enactments and first-person interviews, TATTOO NIGHTMARES reveals people's often-hilarious horror stories behind their awful tattoos, and then chronicles the best tattoo artists in the business as they fix and cover someone else's mistakes. Each 30-minute episode features three people with hilarious and downright disturbing tats, including these images: a horrible Los Angeles skyline tattoo; a pot leaf; a client's portrait of his ex; a dragon tattoo tramp stamp; a belly button tattoo; a tattoo prank of tribal flames; a Vegas mistake transformed into a pirate; and many more works of art that need a miracle makeover. Plus, each episode features three different tattoo artists: Big Gus, who was born and raised in the streets of Los Angeles and began tattooing at the age of 14 when gang members noticed and admired his talents, asking him to ink their members; Tommy Helm, a finalist in Season 1 of INK MASTERS, who graduated the toy design program at FIT and has been tattooing for over 17 years -- now with a two-year wait list at his studio, Empire State Tattoo; and Jasmine Rodriguez, born and raised in Yonkers, who has been earning a living tattooing in the Bronx for the past 16 years after realizing at a very young age she wanted to become a tattoo artist -- at 15, she begged the owner of Champion Tattoo for a job.