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The rise and rise of tattoos

  • 24-05-2013 01:03PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    Not to sound like a Jerry Seinfeld joke, but what's the deal with people all of a sudden being obsessed with tattoos?

    People just seem to be getting them for the craic in the last few years and usually with very little thought put into them. There are some nice ones but I think I that for the most part they are generally a terrible idea.

    I wouldn't like the idea of paying thousands of euros to get a sleeve done and basic ruin my chances in certain jobs and probably regret it a few years later. Can't understand the big obsession!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I saw a dolphin once with a tattoo of a fat girl from a council estate on its back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    fine in theory, problem is the vast majority of them look crap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    krudler wrote: »
    I saw a dolphin once with a tattoo of a fat girl from a council estate on its back.

    I like this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    Did ya not hear?

    You're not "in style" now unless you have a sleeve on your pumped tanned arms :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    It's offically cool not to have one.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    I've got two full sleeves and some of my back done which I can cover up if necessary, however I think neck tattoos are vile.

    I'm a joiner so image is not important but I still draw the line at the neck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I'm seeing more of those Ear Stretching things than tattoos in the last few years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I'm seeing more of those Ear Stretching things than tattoos in the last few years.

    Those things look absolutely ridiculous, be great craic to just snap a padlock into one and leg it :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,058 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    OP, why worry, if the sleeve isn't for you or any tattoo for that matter then you're grand you don't need to get them.

    For people that do, hopefully they get them after putting at least some thought into it. For someone getting a sleeve you can be sure that they have considered it significantly. Sleeves take a long time, including many sessions to develop. Generally you won't get from start to finish without carefully considering what you are doing.

    Maybe it won't effect their employment chances (depends on their industry/occupation). Most tattoos can also be hidden when necessary (including sleeves). Huge proportion of the population have tattoos now. They are a common sight in certain age brackets. In a corporate/office environment though, you may not always know who has them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    krudler wrote: »
    Those things look absolutely ridiculous, be great craic to just snap a padlock into one and leg it :pac:

    It'll be interesting to see when they're old and their skin just droops down onto their necks.

    Maybe they could tie it in a knot :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    Uriel. wrote: »
    OP, why worry, if the sleeve isn't for you or any tattoo for that matter then you're grand you don't need to get them.

    For people that do, hopefully they get them after putting at least some thought into it. For someone getting a sleeve you can be sure that they have considered it significantly. Sleeves take a long time, including many sessions to develop. Generally you won't get from start to finish without carefully considering what you are doing.

    Maybe it won't effect their employment chances (depends on their industry/occupation). Most tattoos can also be hidden when necessary (including sleeves). Huge proportion of the population have tattoos now. They are a common sight in certain age brackets. In a corporate/office environment though, you may not always know who has them.

    Well I'm just trying to understand how they are so popular all of a sudden. Years ago they were looked down upon in many ways and then suddenly every seemed to HAVE to get one.

    I've seen many people (friends included) getting sleeves done suddenly and have them finished in a month! Plus, the meanings behind it were also out of the blue.

    I remember when I from when I was about 15 til 18/19 (I'm 25 now) I was going to get a tattoo of a band, who by the way are still my favourite band since then, and I'm glad I didn't get it because I know what I like and what things mean the most to me so I don't see why you would do something irreversible to your body like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    I would love to get a tattoo myself but I'm afraid my screaming, crying and wetting myself would put the tattoo artist off (ah no it doesn't hurt that much..... does it?)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    tbh, having tattoos isn't affecting jobs as much as used to. There are clothes that covers it up fine.

    And even office work it doesn't matter.

    It tends to be customer based jobs, where they have a certain look uphold, that having tats could affect it.

    But, why are you bothered OP? ..Want to get a sleeve but don't have the nerve? >.>


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I think there's a massive untapped market out there for toupee tattoos, or tattoo toupees.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    So I don't see why you would do something irreversible to your body like that.

    You don't need to, it's their body after all.

    They like it. simples.

    __
    There's also 'foundation' that covers up tattoos, (works surprisingly well)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,680 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Depends on why people get them imo. Getting a tatto for the sake of it is retarded imo. I also dislike the tribal tattoos. What significance can they have to someone from Ireland other than it looks cool (it usually doesn't).

    Granted, a persons skin is their own and they're free to do what they want with it, but i honestly think more thought should be put into them, then we'd have less of the copy and paste tramp stamps and tribal shoulders/arms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,794 ✭✭✭Nuttzz


    beckham made them mainstream, prior to that they were really just for prisoners and sailors.

    Dont see the point of them myself but each to their own


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Nuttzz wrote: »
    beckham made them mainstream, prior to that they were really just for prisoners and sailors.

    Dont see the point of them myself but each to their own

    Quickly return to your own planet before your stupidity spreads.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 731 ✭✭✭inmyday


    Nuttzz wrote: »
    beckham made them mainstream, prior to that they were really just for prisoners and sailors.

    Dont see the point of them myself but each to their own

    Each to their own indeed. No more needs to be said in this thread.

    Lock her up!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,058 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    Well I'm just trying to understand how they are so popular all of a sudden. Years ago they were looked down upon in many ways and then suddenly every seemed to HAVE to get one.

    I've seen many people (friends included) getting sleeves done suddenly and have them finished in a month! Plus, the meanings behind it were also out of the blue.

    I remember when I from when I was about 15 til 18/19 (I'm 25 now) I was going to get a tattoo of a band, who by the way are still my favourite band since then, and I'm glad I didn't get it because I know what I like and what things mean the most to me so I don't see why you would do something irreversible to your body like that.

    Same way as anything becomes popular. Celebrity fashion and marketing to a large extent. But also general changes in society to more liberal views etc...

    Technically, tattoos are now reversible but, it comes at a cost (usually more than the tattoo) and often with significant pain.

    But either way, plenty of people have gotten tattoos and years later and still happy with their decision. Of course, on the flip side, plenty are indifferent or regret their decision.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 731 ✭✭✭inmyday


    Seridisand wrote: »
    Quickly return to your own planet before your stupidity spreads.

    I spoke too soon. don't lock the thread just yet.
    You're stupid. I'm stupid. He's stupid. We're all so stupid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    http://shoulditattoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Tattoo-Locations-Graphic.png

    Bit out of date at this stage; for most jobs which don't have any kind of professional dress code or visual customer interaction, tattoos probably won't count against you in an interview. Unless the interviewer is an idiot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    Not to sound like a Jerry Seinfeld joke, but what's the deal with people all of a sudden being obsessed with tattoos?

    People just seem to be getting them for the craic in the last few years and usually with very little thought put into them. There are some nice ones but I think I that for the most part they are generally a terrible idea.

    I wouldn't like the idea of paying thousands of euros to get a sleeve done and basic ruin my chances in certain jobs and probably regret it a few years later. Can't understand the big obsession!!!

    Are the people getting the tattoos people you know personally or are you just seeing more people with tattoos online and on social networking sites?
    In which case I think you might be getting peeved off with the rise of photo sharing on the net.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,506 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Well I've the hots for a local girl. Hadn't seen her for ages till a few weekends ago when I noticed she had got one of those tribal like tattoos on her foot. And my word it looked very sexy.

    So basically what I'm saying is tattoos can look sexy on a person. Although the less obvious the better. If ya know what I mean :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Nuttzz wrote: »
    beckham made them mainstream, prior to that they were really just for prisoners and sailors.

    Step away from your keyboard .......slowly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    I don't see an increase in tattooing as any sort of "liberal" phenomenon. It is almost the opposite, a return to a more tribal activity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    and tribal cant be liberal also? o0
    __
    It is liberal as people aren't associating tattoos with army or criminals anymore.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    GastroBoy wrote: »
    Are the people getting the tattoos people you know personally or are you just seeing more people with tattoos online and on social networking sites?
    In which case I think you might be getting peeved off with the rise of photo sharing on the net.

    Most of my friends but just people around the place in general.

    E.g. on Facebook
    Friend - "Can't wait to get my new ink next week!",
    Me - "What are you getting done?"
    Friend - "Not sure yet!"

    Why bother getting something that big that spontaneously?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Well I've the hots for a local girl. Hadn't seen her for ages till a few weekends ago when I noticed she had got one of those tribal like tattoos on her foot. And my word it looked very sexy.

    So basically what I'm saying is tattoos can look sexy on a person. Although the less obvious the better. If ya know what I mean :D

    Depends on the person, a hot young wan or Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    Most of my friends but just people around the place in general.

    E.g. on Facebook
    Friend - "Can't wait to get my new ink next week!",
    Me - "What are you getting done?"
    Friend - "Not sure yet!"

    Why bother getting something that big that spontaneously?

    Some people might have an idea of what they want but until they flesh it out with their tattoo artist they don't fully know what it'll look like. Maybe they don't want to tell you X and come home with Y.

    ETA: I don't personally have any tattoos (don't trust that I'll still want it in five years), but I admire them on others, especially as they've become more artistic. Some really are like having a beautiful piece of art but on your body instead of a wall.


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