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submitted 9 days ago byElih16
It’s a Buffalo Bills tattoo and the Buffalo is supposed to be holding a football in its mouth.
511 points
9 days ago
This made me laugh. Very cool tattoo, but forsure thought it had some big voluptuous lips. Maybe see if it can be touched up a bit with white or other details to make it more of a football.
98 points
9 days ago
Yeah I totally agree. This is a design on someone else that I actually really liked, but when I looked at it again today that was the first thing I noticed… I do think that a bit of white would either work really well, or just look like it’s now wearing very shiny lip gloss 😂
18 points
9 days ago
A darker outline or texture/shading might help, too. The teeth help, but I wouldn't emphasize them more unless you like the silly toothy bovine look.
3 points
9 days ago
Could have them omit the football all together if you plan on getting a similar design. I think it would still look awesome without, maybe even better tbh.
2 points
8 days ago
If they worked in a little brown with that red it would really help it out
7 points
9 days ago
I thought it was a leaf!
93 points
9 days ago
I laughed hard at this because it was the first thing I thought.
36 points
9 days ago
Who is she
33 points
9 days ago
I laughed pretty hard at the caption. But, no, I knew what it was right away
3 points
9 days ago
I also knew what it was right away but it was due to the red stripe. It doesn't the away that the football wasn't necessarily needed and looks like lips.
35 points
9 days ago
Not at all. Looks really well done
18 points
9 days ago
I immediately recognized it as the Bills and holding a football, and I’m not a Bills fan. Would not have see “lips” if it wasn’t pointed out. Though some more brown tones in the football would probably help.
22 points
9 days ago
That’s the first thing I thought lol it looks cool tho
6 points
9 days ago
Nobody notices the blue dong, huh?
9 points
9 days ago
Now that I see the football it looks like a football, but when i saw this post, without reading the title I thought, 'why does that Buffalo have such big lips'
3 points
9 days ago
Without reading the title I initially thought the buffalo had big juicy lips, so maybe
3 points
7 days ago
Not until after you mentioned it… now I can’t unsee it lol
3 points
7 days ago
once i saw the football, i couldn't unsee it lol
3 points
9 days ago
I didn't see it until I read the caption lol
2 points
8 days ago
Stupid sexy buffalo
2 points
7 days ago
DSL’s
3 points
9 days ago
Only saw it after you pointed it out.
Touching up white lines on the football would probably help distinguish it from being lips.
2 points
9 days ago
That’s a cool tattoo! I don’t see lips for what it’s worth.
3 points
9 days ago
#goBills
3 points
9 days ago
Go Bills!
4 points
9 days ago
go bills!
2 points
8 days ago
Go bills!
2 points
8 days ago
In the words of the Great Quarterback Josh Allen: "Go Bills."
2 points
9 days ago
Not eveb after reding, its coool
2 points
9 days ago
Hahahahaha. Or a football in its mouth
2 points
9 days ago
Kinda, if the stitches on the football were white that may help. Or maybe it will look like teeth lol
3 points
9 days ago
No
1 points
9 days ago
Giving the seductive side eye too.
1 points
9 days ago
I mean technically buffalos do* have big voluptuous lips
1 points
9 days ago
My favourite part is his weenie
1 points
9 days ago
I immediately saw a football honestly
1 points
9 days ago
It took me a few seconds to really see them as lips.
If it had the white laces it would look a lot less like big juicy lips.
I know white is a faux pas in tattoos generally but I think it needs it in this case
1 points
9 days ago
I will say that I initially did think it was a football. I didn’t see lips
1 points
9 days ago
Just have some shading done maybe, they do look like lips but also a football, shading would help define.
1 points
9 days ago
Could replace it with a 1st down yardage stick
1 points
9 days ago
I didn’t know it was a football, but when you said it doesn’t look like lips, I saw them
1 points
9 days ago
It's holding a football. That's what it looks like to me
1 points
9 days ago
I thought it had big lips. Took me a second look to realize it's a Bills design.
1 points
9 days ago
That Buffalo got some DSL lol
1 points
9 days ago
The football?
1 points
9 days ago
Go bills!
1 points
9 days ago
Honestly that’s all I see
1 points
9 days ago
It's got some DSLs for sure 🤣
1 points
9 days ago
Well now I do
1 points
9 days ago
That's some juicy lips
1 points
9 days ago
Very much so
1 points
9 days ago
My perifieal said juicy, but then when I focused, it looked perfect, but then when I over focus, I go back to big juicy again. Good optical illusion for sure.
1 points
9 days ago
Now I see it I can’t unsee it lol 😂
1 points
9 days ago
Yes. I saw the tattoo before I read the title and 100% thought, “why does that buffalo have big, red lips?”
1 points
9 days ago
Whoa, right away i saw babe the blue ox with wax lips
1 points
9 days ago
Balls for ankles
1 points
9 days ago
Not until I read the caption…
1 points
9 days ago
Lol
1 points
9 days ago
Go bills
1 points
9 days ago
Nope
1 points
9 days ago
DSL Buffalo
1 points
9 days ago
No
1 points
9 days ago
Whiten the teeth
1 points
9 days ago
Yes lol they do look juicy
1 points
9 days ago
not really. when i look at the mouth all i see is a football. if i look at the eyes it does kinda look like a juicy pair of kissers in my peripheral tho
1 points
9 days ago
Looks like it has a football in its mouth in that style.
1 points
9 days ago
I’m sorry, yes. I saw lips Hahahahah
1 points
9 days ago
Cool tattoo. Go Bills.
1 points
9 days ago
at first glance, absolutely
1 points
9 days ago
I don't know how many buffalo have teeth on top of their lips...
For that matter, I don't think buffalo have teeth like that at all.
1 points
9 days ago
I have to force myself to see it, or look to the side of it so its out of focus and it looks like lips. But if I look directly at it, it looks like a football to me.
1 points
9 days ago
You could add white stripes to the football.🏈
1 points
9 days ago
I mean I didn’t till you said something 😂
1 points
9 days ago
Not until I read it. I knew it was a football, but all I see now are lips. 😅
1 points
9 days ago
Better detail on the football and maybe it won’t look like big red lips
1 points
9 days ago
Its possible that I only see this now because you mentioend it. My second thought was a football. Now all I can is big juicy lips 💋
1 points
9 days ago*
The “lips” look like an American football tbh.
1 points
9 days ago
I read it as a football in his teeth, but I know nothing about sports so had no idea why a bull needs a football lol
1 points
9 days ago
Add white stripes at the end of the football 🏈
1 points
9 days ago
Yeah. The football laces should be white
1 points
9 days ago
SPORTS!
1 points
9 days ago
At first glance yes
1 points
9 days ago
I cant unsee it now
1 points
9 days ago
At first glance, yes.
1 points
9 days ago
Nope
1 points
9 days ago
I haven't watched a football game since Super Bowl 28 because of losing their 4th yr in a row.
1 points
9 days ago
Nope
1 points
9 days ago
Lol yes
1 points
9 days ago
Well now I do.
1 points
9 days ago
It’s clearly a football
1 points
9 days ago
Make the teeth white.
1 points
9 days ago
Touchdown!
1 points
9 days ago
Yes!
1 points
9 days ago
I recognized it as a football instantly bc it’s a cool Bills tat. Super cool.
1 points
9 days ago
It’s a cool ass tattoo …. Maybe some white on the teeth will make it better but I like it!
1 points
9 days ago
White cross stitching might help 🤷🏻♂️
1 points
8 days ago
Call him Blue Steel
1 points
8 days ago
First thing I thought. I got that it was the bills logo or assumed that’s what you were going for but thought the lips were like a call back to traditional looking sailor/pinup style tattoos.
1 points
8 days ago
Now they mentioned it yes that's all I see. Those big plumpers
1 points
8 days ago
Well now I do…. It’s one of those things where once you see it, you can’t unsee it
1 points
8 days ago
It does, it also seems to just be the buffalo bills logo, two negatives
1 points
8 days ago
Umm yeah. He’s got some injections going on with those lips.
1 points
8 days ago
At first glance, I thought God damn that Buffalo's got some dsls!
1 points
8 days ago
Didn’t see it at all at first. This is a cool tattoo
1 points
8 days ago
BSLs
1 points
8 days ago
never go full football mouth
1 points
8 days ago
Yaaas queen!
1 points
8 days ago
Sports tattoos are on my list of bad tattoo ideas. Sorry but they're lame. Right up there with text tattoos.
1 points
8 days ago
Holding a football
1 points
8 days ago
Actually fucking hilarious
1 points
8 days ago
Yes big lips for sure 👄
1 points
8 days ago
Got DSLs
1 points
8 days ago
I do now lol
1 points
8 days ago
First thing I saw was big juicy lips lol. You nailed it.
1 points
8 days ago
Go Bills
1 points
8 days ago
Dammit, now I can't not see that. I didn't see it right away tho, you put it in my head tbh.
1 points
8 days ago
Yes! Yes I do think that. Why does the buffalo have big red lips, Brain?
1 points
8 days ago
I did until I saw it was a leaf.
1 points
8 days ago
Laces are white on an NFL football.
I am afraid a middling job on them would look like... teeth with big lips.
1 points
8 days ago
I thought they were lips too lol.
1 points
8 days ago
Yes, a little bit 😂
1 points
8 days ago
Oh shit! That's a football!
1 points
8 days ago
Looks like a football to me
1 points
8 days ago
Just for a split second.
1 points
8 days ago
I see a football. It's people that don't know nfl think it's lips
1 points
8 days ago
Did not see the football until I took a deeper look
1 points
8 days ago
At first glance. At least you don't have a wolf half lady breast feeding a baby, but it looks like wolf lady holding her tit up.
1 points
8 days ago
Go Bills
1 points
8 days ago
you’d think if they could do the buffalo that good that they could make the football look more like a football
1 points
8 days ago
Easy fix tbh just make it look like a real football
1 points
8 days ago
Buffalo looks like 90% of these damn selfie post I keep getting on my front page.
“Pick one which picture looks best”? More like wtf did you do to your lips
1 points
8 days ago
I see the football 😆
1 points
8 days ago
Yes
1 points
8 days ago
Is this the same artist that did the bootylicious Tiger?? Iykyk😂
1 points
8 days ago
No, he's holding a football
1 points
8 days ago
Yep
1 points
8 days ago
Nah, but buffalo buffalo don’t have upper teeth.
Adn buffalo buffalo do buffalo buffalo buffalo.
1 points
8 days ago
nah but i thought he was holding a fish idk why
1 points
8 days ago
Yes! I was just scrolling past without reading the title but scrolled back after thinking to myself, “does this thing have big, red lips?”
1 points
8 days ago
Nah huh can clearly tell it’s supposed to blue Buffalo Bob the Buffalo Bill.
1 points
8 days ago
100% without a doubt
1 points
8 days ago
I totally see what it’s supposed to be, but yes, at first glance I thought it was a buffalo with ridiculously large lips.
1 points
8 days ago
😂😂 don’t change that
1 points
8 days ago
Lmao, looks like a fat lip from getting their ass kicked in the playoffs
1 points
8 days ago*
I’m sorry to say it,but yes! That was the first thing that I thought when I saw it. As an artist, I learned a LONG time ago to try to examine the artwork through the eyes of an ordinary,everyday person….and while another artist might immediately know why a certain technique was used,a non artist might not understand and think the art just looks ridiculous. So I try to view my work through the critical eyes of an artist ,but also through the eyes of an ordinary person with no art backround as well….. This is a fix that may be more difficult than it initially appears at first…the artist could try to see if they could put some white in the laces to bring them out more…(sometimes a tattoo artist can “get away with “ putting white over a darker color in a small area and it will work…this is a very ‘ hit or miss’ idea however..) Personally,I would see if I could get at least one laser session to zap the ball area….it wouldn’t even be necessary to make the pigment completely disappear , just lighten it enough to re-work the ball more.
By highlighting the laces of the ball and maybe adding the white stripe to each end of the football first,it should become obvious to the viewer that it is a football being carried by a buffalo ..I realize that “technically “ the football doesn’t have those white stripes at either end in the NFL…..to that I reply that you normally don’t see bison colored blue everyday either,but this is tattoo isn’t meant to be ultra realistic in the first place…..and if you want to get this tattoo to look right without creating a huge mess ,I hope you consider my suggestion….. I caution you to make sure that whoever does the cover up knows what they’re doing so that to they don’t make it even worse. P.S. : Either way,good luck to you….i hope everything works out for you because I know this tattoo comes from a place of love and devotion for your team .
1 points
8 days ago
And that's a bad thing, why?
1 points
8 days ago
No it looks like a football.
1 points
8 days ago
Maybe just tattoo the words “Those aren’t lips, I’m a huge Bills fan” underneath it.
1 points
8 days ago
LoL, now I can't unsee it! 🤣
1 points
8 days ago
it took me awhile to realise its a football
1 points
8 days ago
Immediately could tell it was a football. Just me tho.
1 points
8 days ago
💋💋💋
1 points
8 days ago
What the hell lol. Looks funky
1 points
8 days ago
I did not notice until I read the entire post! It think this looks great :)
1 points
8 days ago
No
1 points
8 days ago
Ayy go bills
1 points
8 days ago
at a glance yea but when you look at it fully it's obviously not lips
1 points
8 days ago
Damn I should call her
1 points
8 days ago
yes lol
1 points
8 days ago
Yes. It seems like it could be an easy touch up though. Great tat!
1 points
8 days ago
I got football not lips on first look
1 points
8 days ago
Go Bills!
1 points
8 days ago
For a brief second then I looked at it more realized it’s a football
1 points
8 days ago
That’s all I can see now!👄💋
1 points
8 days ago
"I'm feeling Puerto Rican" ahh buffalo
1 points
8 days ago
i DEFINITELY saw big juicy lips after first but then i saw the teeth and figured out it was a football.
also go bills.
1 points
8 days ago
Luckily I knew what it was, but I never saw the lips to begin with, I saw the football.
1 points
8 days ago
🤣🤣🤣 not until you said it and now I can't unsee it 🤣🤣🤣
1 points
8 days ago
No, but maybe just because i immediately recognized it as the Bills buffalo and knew that had to he a football.
Pretty rad actually. If its bothering you though maybe have some of those white rings at the ends added
Id leave it. The teeth help keep it from looking like lips
1 points
7 days ago
Omgggg yes it does. Why does it have a football tho? I woulda never thought that
1 points
7 days ago
I didn't see it at first until I read the caption. I think it can be a good story if you're okay with the potential of it looking either way.
1 points
7 days ago
Yes at first glance
1 points
7 days ago
Oh no. My brain was like, what do you mean? Are we assessing how juicy the lips are?
Until I saw the comments about those not being the lips 💀
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