Tattoos are an important decision. After all, they're going to be permanently on your skin, unless you find an expensive and painful option to remove it. So if you're dead set on getting one, you better be certain that it's a design you'll be happy to wake up to each and every day. However, for some people it's a spur of the moment decision that they wish they could take back.

Drunken tattoos are a thing, unfortunately, leading to many people waking up with terrible hangovers and a lot of embarrassment over their new ink. A bachelor party is pretty much the perfect place for this to happen - with the drunken shenanigans of a group of men celebrating their friend's last days as a single man tend to get a little wild.

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Lewys Shepherd, from Rhondda in South Wales, woke up the morning after a joint rugby tour and bachelor party with a major regret. Not only had he made the decision to get a tattoo in a seriously inebriated state the night before, but the image he had chosen was current President of the United States, Donald Trump.

He got the image of Trump plastered on his leg, showing Agent Orange mid-speech, taken from a particularly unflattering photo that has made the internet rounds over the last few years. Lewys isn't exactly Trump's biggest fan, and he didn't want to keep the tat - so headed to E4's Tattoo Fixers to see if they could help him out.

"I’ve got a sh*t tattoo that I need gone," he told tattoo artists Paisley Billings, Uzzi Canby, and Steven 'Sketch' Poerter. "I was on a stag do/rugby tour, had a few too many, ended up in a tattoo shop and had a bad tattoo."

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"I thought it was a great idea at the time… until I sobered up," he continued, teasing that "it’s a bit of a controversial person". Following the reveal, he hastily said that he wasn't a supporter of Donald Trump in any capacity, which just makes the odd choice of tattoo all the more embarrassing for him.

"I was just drunk, and he’s in the news a lot isn’t he – so, that’s the first person that popped into my head.

"I want to make it clear, I’m not a fan of Donald Trump. For some reason that’s what popped into my head, and as soon as I said it, there was no going back."

Thankfully, the tattoo fixers were able to return Lewys' leg to its former glory. This time, he went with a Native American theme for the design. The new tattoo shows a Native American wearing an elaborate feather head dress - which I imagine many would prefer to his original choice.

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At least this tattoo was regulated to his leg - if he'd chosen to get a tattoo across his entire back, like Ben Affleck did recently, he'd be in much more trouble.

Britain's most tattooed man has said that he was turned away from an Australian nightclub due to his extreme look, which cost him thousands of dollars and 1,500 hours under the needle.

Matthew Whelen, 42, has covered almost 90% of his body in artwork which has taken over 1,500 hours to complete, and he's due for more time in the chair in January for blackout work on his left arm.

Whelan, who has changed his legal name to King Of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink - Ite, has revealed that the look can be a burden in everyday life.

Speaking to LBC, he has revealed that while on vacation in Australia, he was turned away from a nightclub due to the tattoos covering his face.

"I'm going back two and a half years when I went to Sydney, Australia," Whelan said. "They've got a policy to ban gangs and people with face tattoos, from a lot of bars, clubs, and restaurants."

He revealed that he was staying in a nice part of the city not too far from the Opera house and this added to the attitudes people held toward him.

"I tried to get into a nice restaurant and bar and then the nightclub on the night and security guards had seen me on a documentary on TV. But they were doing their job, they couldn't allow me into the venue because of their policy," Whelan explained.

He went on to state that he was allowed into the establishment the next night after he emailed in explaining who he was and let them know the reasons for the tattoos and how they weren't gang-related.

This conversation was sparked due to a recent report that a woman from the UK was made to watch her children's nativity play through a window due to her facial tattoos.

The mom of two sat down with the Daily Star where she also revealed that she had been barred from local pubs due to her extreme look and that she is forced to stay out of Christmas celebrations with her children out of fear of being judged by other parents.

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Tattoos can be things of regret for many people. One man had glasses tattooed onto his face during a wild bachelor party and then had to spend two years trying to get them removed. Another saw one half of the yin-yang symbol he was getting on his arm transformed into an ungracious boob. And who can forget the guy from We're The Millers with "no ragrets" tattooed across his chest? Possibly the scariest tattoo fail of all happened to a Canadian woman whose eye-tattoo went drastically wrong, leaving her with damaged eyesight and forced to go back and forth to the hospital. Getting your eyes tattooed – or more specifically, getting the white part of the eye, the sclera, tattooed – is a practice that's totally feasible today. While it may be shocking to some, especially in light of disaster stories, scleral tattooing is something that some people are really into. The newest person in the eye-tattoo club is Karan Sidhu, who prefers to be known as Tattoographer Karan. Lucky for him, the procedure was successful, meaning he's now the first person to change the white of his eyes completely to black.

Here he is pre-surgery:

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And here he is after:

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Tattoos are a unique form of expression and a significant part of many people's identities. But another thing that tattoos are is expensive. When a person decides they want one, not only do they have to think about the indelible mark that they're placing on their body, they also have to consider the financial ramifications of their actions.

So, when Warwickshire-based man Darryl Timms spent a whopping £30,000 ($42,000) covering his entire body with tattoos, the last thing he wanted to happen was to be turned away from a bar because of them.

The 40-year-old, who has a crocodile coming out of a coffin, a sacred heart and a demon's face all inked on his head, was livid when he tried to go to the pub on March 24, but was rejected by the bouncer who told him he had too many tattoos. Timms waited 45 minutes with his girlfriend Amanda Tiff to get into the Fizzy Moon House at around 11pm in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire when he was told that he would not be allowed in.

Describing the incident to the Leamington Courier newspaper in his own words, Darryl said: "The bouncer said, 'sorry, the management reserves the rights to admit people and we can’t allow people who have got as many tattoos as you in the pub. My partner told him, 'It’s 2018 mate, get with the times.' He said, 'I know I’m really sorry, I’ve got tattoos myself.' I said to him, 'Surely then you’re not allowed in the pub. "But he said, 'I’m just here to do a job, I’m really sorry, it puts me in a bit of an awkward position.'"

Darryl, who got his first tattoo more than 15 years ago, claims that he was wearing sensible clothing that only showed tattoos on the hands, face and neck and states that he was not drunk when he attempted entry, naming the debacle "an absolute joke".

He stated: "I thought it was an absolute joke. I’m covered head to toe in tattoos but the only ones you could see at the time were on my hands, face, head and neck. None of them are offensive and to not get into a pub because of them is ludicrous."

The 40-year-old, who described himself as a tattoo "enthusiast, continued: "I know bouncers’ jobs are hard enough especially if people are drunk and disorderly – we’d been out 45 minutes and we’d only had a couple of drinks. It was like they thought I was a troublemaker because I had tattoos and a skinhead. It’s not like Leamington is adverse to tattoos – there are at least seven or eight tattoo shops... The manager or owner behind the policy needs to grow up and get with the times – it’s 2018 not 1918."

When asked for comment by the Leamington Courier, Fizzy Moon owner Mo Kandola defended the decision to refuse Darryl entry, stating that it was a "mistake". The owner stated: "Every bar has a policy of some form of dress code but we don’t have a policy here as long as people are reasonably presentable. Doormen have difficult jobs and they have to make judgements based on appearance and sometimes they make mistakes. By law pubs and bars can refuse entry without any reason. For anybody who isn’t happy, I am always happy to meet with them to try and resolve the issue."

While it's fair that bars reserve the right to reject whomever they want, it's also true that no person should be denied entry on the sole basis of appearance. Let's hope that Darryl will be given a full apology for the incident.

Getting a tattoo is a pretty big decision to make. Like, it's going to be there forever, and you better know for sure that you want to get one well before you book your visit to the parlour.

Many people know right away what kind of tattoos they want to get, whether it be a quirky little symbol on the wrist or ankle, a full sleeve with incredible artistic detailing, or a memorable signifier of a loved one or a special date. Tattoos can be beautiful, inspiring and just plain cool, but some of them... let's just say some of them are more regrettable - especially if you get a tattoo on your face.

If you're bold enough to do so, you'd hope it's something you're willing to show the world for the rest of your life. Because unlike other tattoos that can be hidden by long sleeves, facial tattoos stare people who are looking at you right in the face.

While there are some pretty cool face tattoos (I'm thinking of traditional Mauri tats or the intricate design by Czech professor and music composer Vladimír Franz who randomly once ran for president), not all of them are as aesthetically pleasing. Here are 12 face tattoos people may well have regretted...

1. You've gotta give it to him - that's an impressive moustache

2. Wouldn't keeping your kid's face as your phone background be enough?

3. This guy isn't clowning around

4. "It doubles as a chess board!"

5. Is it a helmet? Is it a hairline?

6. This looks WAY too real

7. Finished off with a tactical piercing too I see

8. Are those penises? In the shape of a butterfly?

9. I wonder under which circumstances this tattoo came about...

10. I see what you did here but...

11. Oh man, this poor guy

12. Nope, nope, nope

Well, I really wonder how many of these people still have these tattoos. At least for the ones who have their tattoos on the back of their head, a good crop of hair or a beanie would be able to obscure it. But those Ray-Ban glasses? Or the huge spider drawn from that dude's nose? Those are impossible to cover up.

But it's likely that these tattoos are just part of their identity, and that they're the type of people who like expressing themselves in ways that might shock others. In any case, it is possible to remove tattoos, though I can imagine it would be quite a long and painful process to remove a large tattoo that covers your whole face.

Kudos to them for the bravery in the first place. I certainly wouldn't be game!