Popsugar Beauty Beauty Trends What Is The Ignorant Tattoo Trend? The "Ignorant Tattoo" Trend Is Not What It Sounds Like 10 July 2019 by Sarah Siegel View this post on Instagram A post shared by Becca (@rebelleq) on Jun 28, 2019 at 12:35pm PDT Your first thought when you hear about the "ignorant tattoo" style might be that the art is rude or in poor taste, but thankfully this trend is much more about dry humour than insensitivity. According to tattoo community Tattoodo, the movement is a modern version of the "ironic" design, which was pioneered by French graffiti artist Fuzi Uvtpk in the '90s when he started to stray from conventional tattooing by using his street art on skin. Johan Plenge, co-founder and CEO at Tattoodo, told POPSUGAR that the style is massively popular right now, making it easy to find a reputable tattoo artist to create one for you. "The style has clear connotations to old school prison tattoos, Russian tattoos, and other underground practices that mark the beginning of modern-day tattooing before it got mainstream," he said. "As you can see, the style is characterized by humourous, cartoon-like or graffiti-inspired images without colour." There are plenty of examples of the tattoos on Instagram to draw inspiration from, but we've rounded up illustrations from four talented ignorant tattoo artists, ahead. Alvar Mena View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alvar Mena (@alvarmena) on Jun 25, 2019 at 10:36am PDT Alvar Mena's work, who in based out of Spain, involves pop culture characters, black lines, and funny captions. Many of the designs on his Instagram involve a newspaper cartoon-like box around the drawing. 1 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alvar Mena (@alvarmena) on Jun 27, 2019 at 3:15am PDT 2 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alvar Mena (@alvarmena) on Jun 7, 2019 at 6:12am PDT 3 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alvar Mena (@alvarmena) on May 25, 2019 at 6:29am PDT 4 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alvar Mena (@alvarmena) on Mar 25, 2019 at 5:14am PDT 5 / 20 Luis Lefeld View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luis Lefeld (@luislefeld) on Jun 6, 2019 at 12:14pm PDT Luis Lefeld of Madrid, Spain, designs tattoos with dark humour, and frequently skulls and the Grim Reapers. 6 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luis Lefeld (@luislefeld) on Nov 23, 2018 at 9:26am PST 7 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luis Lefeld (@luislefeld) on Jun 3, 2019 at 11:16am PDT 8 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luis Lefeld (@luislefeld) on Apr 27, 2019 at 9:41am PDT 9 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luis Lefeld (@luislefeld) on May 25, 2018 at 9:34am PDT 10 / 20 Rita Salt View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👹 rita 👹 salt 👹 (@ritasalt) on Apr 13, 2019 at 6:55am PDT Artist Rita Salt, who travels through Europe without a base, incorporates child-like drawings into her work. 11 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👹 rita 👹 salt 👹 (@ritasalt) on Nov 25, 2018 at 2:10pm PST 12 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👹 rita 👹 salt 👹 (@ritasalt) on Jun 25, 2018 at 4:12pm PDT 13 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👹 rita 👹 salt 👹 (@ritasalt) on Jun 11, 2019 at 1:41am PDT 14 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👹 rita 👹 salt 👹 (@ritasalt) on Nov 22, 2018 at 11:26am PST 15 / 20 Becca of Cherry Pie Tattoo and Piercing View this post on Instagram A post shared by Becca (@rebelleq) on Jun 28, 2019 at 12:35pm PDT Glasgow-based artist Becca, specialises in cute, dark, pop art related tattoos. 16 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Becca (@rebelleq) on Apr 20, 2019 at 10:16am PDT 17 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Becca (@rebelleq) on Apr 11, 2019 at 10:33am PDT 18 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Becca (@rebelleq) on May 25, 2019 at 5:27am PDT 19 / 20 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Becca (@rebelleq) on Jan 12, 2019 at 11:07am PST 20 / 20 Beauty TrendsTattoos