The WORST episodes of Tattoo Nightmares

Every episode of Tattoo Nightmares ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Tattoo Nightmares!

People with bad tattoos seek the help of the best cover-up artists in the business.

Last Updated: 6/19/2025Network: Paramount NetworkStatus: Ended

6.55

44 votes

#1 - Needle Phobia!

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/6/2013

Gus pokes holes in his clients debilitating needle phobia, Tommy takes on the literal scars left by blind love and Jasmine hears the story of a soldier's tattoo experience so dangerous he barely escaped with his life!

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6.78

49 votes

#2 - Rib Shots and Breast-aurants

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/30/2013

Jasmine’s tough guy client turns soft when she hits his ribs, Gus has his hands full with a busty pin-up girl, and Tommy takes on Tattoo Nightmare’s first-ever accidentally racist tattoo.

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6.82

73 votes

#3 - All In

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/20/2013

Jasmine helps a very distraught client; Tommy is caught off guard by two lizards; Gus goes all in for a gambler with a stranger's face tattooed on his arm.

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6.90

72 votes

#4 - Pony Boy

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/23/2013

Jasmine ponies up for the only cop on the force with a cute tattoo, Tommy buries a banner & a horrible nickname at the same time, & Gus finds out that not every cover up is served with whipped cream and a cherry on top.

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6.90

74 votes

#5 - Fire Crotch

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/16/2013

Gus takes a closer look at a forearm tattoo with some suspicious hidden images, Jasmine tries to extinguish a real-life fire crotch, and Tommy tries to lift the burden of a client’s childhood mistakes.

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6.97

68 votes

#6 - The Ladykiller

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2014

Gus is dubbed "the ladykiller" after a terrifying incident with a client, Jasmine puts out her client's flaming mistake in an oh-so sensitive area, and Tommy rescues his client from a tattoo so horrible it almost killed him.

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7.13

16 votes

#7 - Baywatch Bimbo!

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/6/2014

Jasmine rescues a former 90's beach babe, whose bad ink is drowning her career, Big Gus' client is eager to drop his pants to change his game.

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7.25

12 votes

#8 - Disco Love

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/1/2013

Jasmine learns just how far a jilted girl will go for love, Gus is transported back to 1978 to do the cover-up hustle, and Tommy tries to erase a client’s misguided tribute that left his wife paralyzed in the hospital.

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7.29

17 votes

#9 - Big Norma's House

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/17/2013

Gus does his best to clean up an unintentional dragon sperm tattoo, Jasmine learns first hand what happens when white rapping goes wrong, and Tommy helps soothe the wounds left behind by a national tragedy.

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7.30

43 votes

#10 - I Do's and Bad Tattoos

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/13/2013

Jasmine struggles to free her client from the pain of his jailhouse past. Gus helps a young girl prove that she is no one’s property and Tommy bares witness to Tattoo Nightmares first ever engagement proposal!

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7.36

22 votes

#11 - Penis Neck

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/22/2014

Tommy works on a piece that has shamed his clients family. Gus helps out a musician. Jasmine has to help out a superhero fan's phallic mistake.

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7.38

8 votes

#12 - Bad Luck of The Irish

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/23/2015

A man is badly scarred in more ways than one as he tearfully asks Jasmine for help, while Tommy's client wants to lose her bestie, who's been following behind her for years, and a man needs Big Gus to help change his luck.

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7.40

10 votes

#13 - Father Doesn't Know Best

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/30/2015

A cycling fanatic comes to Jasmine hoping to rebuild his patriotism, while Tommy helps a disappointed daughter mask a swap meet mistake, and Big Gus fights a tricky tattoo, and has to switch up his game mid-stride.

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7.42

12 votes

#14 - Hatchet Girl

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/2014

Gus encounters a gory tattoo inspired by a secret fetish; Tommy takes on a satanic symbol that's upsetting a client's mother; Jasmine tries to rid a man of a lifetime of bullying

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7.42

59 votes

#15 - Holy Hank!

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/9/2013

Gus attempts to rescue a boisterous girl from the grips of an evil vampire squid, Jasmine tries to help a confused man with a mixed up national identity & Tommy calls upon the saints to help cover a cop’s past failures.

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7.43

14 votes

#16 - Hashtag Horrible

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/14/2015

Jasmine gets stuck in an unfortunate threesome when her client drops his pants, Big Gus is needed stat to fix this goofy tattoo that destroyed a family, while Tommy tries to give his client's tattoo a second life.

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7.46

63 votes

#17 - Tattoo Secrets

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/11/2013

Jasmine is shocked by a client who reveals a heart wrenching secret to his wife, Tommy tackles the story of a girl betrayed by her own parents and Gus takes on the shop’s wildest cover up yet: 8 nipples on a man’s chest.

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7.46

13 votes

#18 - Surfari

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/2014

A surfer comes to Gus hoping to wash away a mistake and win back his father, while Tommy rushes to the scene for an accident-prone paramedic, and Jasmine's client is desperate to ex-out his ink in time for an important reunion.

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7.50

14 votes

#19 - Wolf Grind

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/2014

A client's two-timing ex, a cage fighter's tattoo is causing him daily beatings; Jasmine struggles to keep a client from removing his tattoo.

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7.50

175 votes

#20 - Teabag Tattoo

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2012

Jasmine regrets agreeing to attempt a coverup next to a personal trainer’s crotch. Tommy tries to give his customer a proper tribute to her mom and sister by covering up a giant “DGAF” tattoo on her back. Big Gus meets a fellow tattoo artist with a horrible tattoo.

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7.51

67 votes

#21 - Satanic Schoolgirl

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2013

Tommy tries to save a Catholic schoolgirl with a pentagram on her back, Gus takes on a shockingly obscene tattoo across a gangster’s stomach & Jasmine attempts to resurrect a nerd’s life with a “meow” tattoo on his butt.

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7.53

149 votes

#22 - Pinup Problems

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/2012

Jasmine tries to cover tribal flames and put a prank in the past, Gus attempts a full back piece to cover a client’s original tattoo, while Tommy works on super fan with a busted pinup but his fix runs into major problems.

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7.53

15 votes

#23 - Terri-Bull

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 8/11/2015

Big Gus uses his talent to give a birthday girl the perfect present, while Tommy attempts to amp up a musician’s out-of-date edgy mistake, and Jasmine helps her client cover up one horri-BULL tattoo.

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7.54

13 votes

#24 - Butt of the Joke

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/30/2014

A disgraced basketball fan places all his bets on Gus, while a hunter hopes Tommy will hit the mark with his new ink and Jasmine’s client is desperate to fight back against a nasty little devil.

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7.55

11 votes

#25 - Cops and Rockers

Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/1/2015

Tommy locks horns with a guy who was in over his head.

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