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Zayn Malik From One Direction Gets a Terrible Tattoo, Joining the Tradition of Horrible Boy Band Ink
I don't understand the One Direction hype. To all their fans and stans, they're a sensation, but to me they're just a bunch of guys with horrible tattoos. Newest to the collection is Zayn Malik, who tattooed the face — the actual physical likeness — of his girlfriend Perrie Edwards from Little Mix on his arm. But Malik's not the only boy band member over the years that has gotten insanely horrible ink. In fact, it seems like putting permanent and awful art on your body is a boy band tradition. Click through for some of the worst boy band ink out there.
Zayn Malik Moving in the Wrong Direction
I don't understand the One Direction hype. To all their fans and stans, they're a sensation, but to me they're just a bunch of guys with horrible tattoos. Newest to the collection is Zayn Malik, who tattooed the face — the actual physical likeness — of his girlfriend Perrie Edwards from Little Mix on his arm. But Malik's not the only boy band member over the years that has gotten insanely horrible ink. In fact, it seems like putting permanent and awful art on your body is a boy band tradition. Click through for some of the worst boy band ink out there.
Nick Carter and Chaos Theory
Remember the baby-faced Nick Carter, the Backstreet Boys heartthrob? Well, he apparently hated that stereotype because he went and got every bad flash sheet tattoo he possibly could. His worst is the KAOS (spelling?) down his back. The Internet tells me that's his nickname, although I'm not sure how his friends convey the all-caps feel to him when they call him that. Oh well, I guess he really just wants it that way.
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Nick Lachey Gets Henna at the Beach
At least that's what his tattoos look like. The former 98 Degrees member and Mr. Jessica Simpson has some heinous, quintessential '90s ink that looks like he got it on the boardwalk after some daytime beers. A tribal band AND the sun on one arm? That's almost too bad to be true. BONUS: The sun used to have 98° inside of it, but since the band broke up, Nick filled it in.
Nick Jonas Could Use a Little Mercy
Jo Bro, why? Nick Jonas got a tattoo that says "mercy" in some sort of "fancy" font on his arm, and showed it off to all his Twitter fans in a wistful sepia tone. The bottom of the tattoo underlines it in an infinity symbol. Hopefully some day a surgeon will have some mercy on him and remove it.
A Tale of Two Ryans
Ryan Cabrera has a Ryan Gosling tattoo. On his body. He has Ryan Gosling's beautiful face tattooed on his actual skin. And he got it because he lost (or won, depending on how you look at it) a game of tattoo roulette. Those are the hard and cold facts.
