Ink-credible! Tattoo fans gather to show off their latest designs – and flash the flesh - at an annual body art celebration in Shanghai

not quite right in the head methinks

Just what is the point of going through all the pain, time and cost to have a massive tattoo all over your back... And can never see it in it's full glory yourself ... Sadly every tattoo fads looks awful as the skin ages as you get older... Also a mass of tattoos on a arm often looks a total mess from 10 feet away .. A tattoo is for life and many in their haste live to regret that fact later in life if not sooner.. What is liked by thousands is often disliked by millions.. ..seeing people with tattoos can be ok in small doses i... Because I can go home and do not have to live with it..

Yuk. Nothing but self mutilation. Would you scar yourself with a knife?

Quite frankly i'm quite a fan of these stunning pieces of work. I don't have a tattoo myself and never will but at the end of the day, there is a difference between some really poor inking of a butterfly or cheesy writing and then a proper unique piece of art using a human body as a canvas which is basically what those photos are. Something hypnotic about these drawings. So much to see and analyse. Bet they cost many thousands of pounds as well !

And every single one of them hideous!

Horrific.

So glad I never got one , most of mates who did are not that happy they did 30 years later

Yuk

Dreadful hope you like them in your 60's,70's,80's

I think they are pretty awesome, although I would not get too close to some of them.

Looks more like a triad festival

I prefer my artwork and designs hanging on the wall -- not grossly disfiguring my body.

Toilet graffitti awards!!

Quality quality quality tats here very impressed with the variation.

The body God created is a work of art...no additions are needed.

attention seekers have a convention to seek even more attention to themselves? total luvvie fest.

I have only one tattoo but I have seen such amazing artwork, I feel that I would like more. What people do with their own skin is up to them.

Stunning art work. Wow

Barking, the lot of 'em!

What parent tattoo's their 4 year old???? Let the child decide when they are older.