Tattoos out of fashion

Thespoofer

Given the obvious popularity in tattoos at present, what do you guys think, will it become once again not fashionable to be covered in ink ?
I mean look at the latest adverts with Beckham in for example, I think a small part of him must regret going so far with the needle.
All it will take is for some cool celebs to promote a 'clean' or 'pure' look and the tatts with become non desirable again.

MadsL

Branding, the new tattoos.
http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/2/2/8/4/7/3/1/orig-12284731.jpg

Sinfonia

If something is popular, some people will do it.
If something is unpopular, some other people will do it.

Tattoos ain't goin' nowhere.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I hate the 'sleeves' look on a man, it's too much, something which you might regret, I mean you can hide your shoulders and upper arm but you can't hide the arms full length all of the time.

1ZRed

MadsL wrote: »

Branding, the new tattoos.
http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/2/2/8/4/7/3/1/orig-12284731.jpg

That looks like a mutation. How is that attractive?

Thespoofer

MadsL wrote: »

Branding, the new tattoos.
http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/2/2/8/4/7/3/1/orig-12284731.jpg

Looks cool enough, painful maybe ? but cool enough

1ZRed

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I hate the 'sleeves' look on a man, it's too much, something which you might regret, I mean you can hide your shoulders but you can't hide the arms full length all of the time.

They can suit some men very well, though. I know a guy who would have to dress formally for work yet wouldn't think twice about rolling his sleeves up at some point during the day. He's a very good looking guy and they suit him equally as well and wouldn't make him look rough at all.

It really depends on the tattoo and the man with them tbh.

Thespoofer

MadsL wrote: »

Branding, the new tattoos.
http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/2/2/8/4/7/3/1/orig-12284731.jpg

Sinfonia wrote: »

If something is popular, some people will do it.
If something is unpopular, some other people will do it.

Tattoos ain't goin' nowhere.

I see your point but don't you think these latest looks come and go in circles ?
For example the guy who invented the flared pants must have thought they would never go out of vogue, granted they came back again ( and went again ) over a decade ago but people do get bored of the latest look all the time and quickly move onto the next 'cool thing'.

Hootanany

I feel sorry for Tattooed people & the money they paid?

MadsL

Hootanany wrote: »

I feel sorry for Tattooed people & the money they paid?

Hey - "Only God Can Jugde Me" brah!

Hootanany

Not Judging anyone, I just think they are stupid defiling their bodies with chinese writing for "Chantell or Ronan" on the back of the neck.

Hootanany

Hootanany wrote: »

Not Judging anyone, I just think they are stupid defiling their bodies with chinese writing for "Chantell or Ronan" on the back of the neck.

I'm not judging anyone but they are stupid. Oh right. Ok.

PickledLime

Hootanany wrote: »

Not Judging anyone, I just think they are stupid defiling their bodies with chinese writing for "Chantell or Ronan" on the back of the neck.

Good tattooing goes waaaayyy beyond those little things.

Even if they come to regret it, "defiling" is a bit much, don't you think? They probably sit round thinking how stupid non-tattoo'd prudes are :rolleyes:

As mentioned, a lot of tattoos can be quite tasteful, and there's a high degree of skill going into both the design (which a lot of people come up with themselves) and the actual tattoo itself.

Incidentally, I'm not tattoo'd, but I'm not prudish about it.

Sunnyisland

Don't mind them at all, all though I would not be to fond of the ones on the neck,just my opinion :-)

Surveyor11

I was up in the national aquatic centre a few weeks back, would say at least half the people there had a tattoo. Some suited people, but some were hideous. I'm convinced some of those oriental signs mean nothing, or something like 'chicken curry and rice' that a Chinese guy could have a laugh at. The whole kids tattooed is tacky IMO , especially when the kids names are derived from current soap stars / footballers / grazia. One fella had this Indian from the Wild West on his shoulder, didn't quite work as he imagined, it looked so comical. Was dying to ask what it was about. Each to their own with tattoos, but there's some howlers out there.

oldyouth

I think tattoos will always be popular with fit, athletic young people and some of them look well. However, it's not a pretty sight when it all goes south. Young people don't tend to take that in to consideration at the time though

caustic 1

They only suit certain people. I have seen women done up to the nines and a fecking rose or butterfly stuck on their arms or chest ewwwwww just wrong, while others can carry it off. I also think it depends on the body, looks good on athletic types. I hate hate hate the tattoos on lower back on women, there was a time there when everyone and their granny had it done. As for men again only some can carry them off, depends on man, tattoo and his general style.

sashafierce

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princess-lala

My only visible ones are on my feet and I can choose to hide these when I want!

Personal decision to have or not have them! No point knocking someone who does or doesn't have them

Esoteric_

Even if tattoos went out of fashion, people would still get them. I didn't get any of mine because of fashion. I'd be a fcuking idiot if I did something permanent to my body because it's 'fashionable.'

Saying that people don't take into consideration what they'll look like when things 'go south' is bollocks.

I know full well (as does anybody I know with tattoos) that my tattoos will look awful 50 years from now.

I also know that 50 years from now, I won't be attractive anyway, I'll be old, wrinkly and gross, and would prefer to have those ugly, wrinkled blobs that my tattoos will be by then, because I can look at them and remember things I've come through, good memories and anything else that my tattoos might mean to me.

crazygeryy

MadsL wrote: »

Branding, the new tattoos.
http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/2/2/8/4/7/3/1/orig-12284731.jpg

yea i believe it's very popular with all the cool cows.

Esoteric_

MadsL wrote: »

Branding, the new tattoos.
http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/2/2/8/4/7/3/1/orig-12284731.jpg

I'm pretty sure that's scarification rather than branding.

crazygeryy

princess-lala wrote: »

My only visible ones are on my feet and I can choose to hide these when I want!

Personal decision to have or not have them! No point knocking someone who does or doesn't have them

yes but what's your opinion on cheryl coles latest tattoo work? have you seen it?
i think its just wrong and sadly pathetic.

Calibos

Well if they go out of fashion people can just wash them off....oh no wait!?!?

Or they can use the savings deposit fund they set up for just this eventuality to pay for the 5 figure sum laser removal....oh no wait!?!?

Duck's hoop

The only really great tatoo I've seen was simple as could be, the guy's in his fifties and it's a a neat design incorporating 'liberty' into it. Really suits him and his way. It's just cool as fvck.

As for the people who are tatoo mad, covering themselves in ink, I think it's a bit of an addiction needs controlling.

The worst bit is the wish to express their individuality with the same tattoos as everybody else in the 'tattoo community'. It's like many seek approval and external validation from their inked peers.

Tribal - snigger.
2 swallows - fantastic as everybody's doing it. Sugar skull - everybody has it, I'm getting it as I'm so individual.

Dragons and koi look great but I just think with a culture and history as rich as ours (Irish) and all our mythology etc we wouldn't, as Irish people, any need to co-opt another culture's symbols etc.

princess-lala

Haven't seen cherlys new one

ChewChew

I think Cheryl's new tat is fab. Suits her... Wouldn't suit many though. Just like David beckhams suit him. Like princess Lala, my foot tattoo would have been the one most visible but I can choose to hide that. Both my wrists are tattooed now and harder to cover but I don't 'cover' them. If I'm wearing something that happens to cover then so beit. But it's certainly a personal choice. I mean I just don't understand those of you who aren't tattooed!!!!!!






JOKE!!!! I don't really care if you are or aren't tattooed :pac:

Esoteric_

I'm not a massive fan of Cheryl Cole's new tattoo. At the same time, it's done by a world reknowned artist (I was raving about how much I like the artist only a few days before the pics of her tattoo were released :pac: ), it's a nice design, a well done tattoo, and if she's happy with it, fair play to her.

miamee

I've none but wouldn't be totally against getting one at some point. I think they have to mean something to you personally though and where it went is something that would have to be carefully thought about.

I don't think tattoos are going away, they have been around for hundreds of years at least. The only thing that changes is the type of people who get them, what tattoos they get and how widespread they are.
Read a short article a while ago about the tattoos on the bodies of Irish emigrants to New York in (possibly) the 19th century. Some were symbolic images or the name of their town or a girl left behind. Some were purely functional though with their own name tattooed on their hand or arm. I presume this was in case they fell overboard on the way or were killed and unidentified in other ways, which was sad.

Paddy Cow

princess-lala wrote: »

Haven't seen cherlys new one

You couldn't miss it :eek:

justforlaugh

tattoos on older women just look so wrong..they might look cute in their 20s but once they get to their 40s especially colour tattoo is fading is not good look

justforlaugh

Paddy Cow wrote: »

You couldn't miss it :eek:

she used to have a nice arse and now she ruined it

PickledLime

Had to Google her tattoo there.

Will possibly bring new meaning to the term "smelling of roses"!

worded

The new tatoo tax will put a stop to it.

RuggieMuffin

Anybody getting tattooed because it's popular will be sorry in a few years - tattoos go through fashion cycles like everything else, and if you got a dolphin, star, kanji or sugar skull BECAUSE its fashionable then you will have regrets.

However, I find the majority of people get tattooed from a deep personal want and it has nothing to do with being fashionable. Lots of people get tattoos with meanings and they help them overcome difficult times of their lives like the loss of a loved one. Other times people get something because they want it. It's enough of a reason, it's their body.

I just wish the artists were given the freedom to create what they are capable of more rather than copying the same image over that's been floating around Pinterest for the past year.

princess-lala

Paddy Cow wrote: »

You couldn't miss it :eek:

Each to their own as I said

Duck's hoop

RuggieMuffin wrote: »

However, I find the majority of people get tattooed from a deep personal want and it has nothing to do with being fashionable.

I really think those people are very much in the minority. Certainly among the tattooed lads and lassies that I know.


It has often been spur of the moment 'I must get a tatoo'. Most of them regret after a bit as well. Certainly in their thirties.

stefan idiot jones

What the fu@k is fashion anyway ?

Fu@k Fashion.

I've been collecting tattoos for twenty five years and will continue to collect them for another twenty five.

I have two full sleeves and half my back done. And they are not done for anyones behalf except for mine. So With the greatest respect, most serious tattoo collectors couldn't give a damn for people's opinions or what is in 'vogue'.

justforlaugh

come to think of it i bet her arse look like a baboons arse from a distance

Hellrazer

Ah another one of these threads.

A well done individual tattoo is in effect a work of art that you wear with you as you walk around.

As or whether Ill be worried what my ink looks like when Im 70--I honestly think that will be the least of my worries.

todders

On the hole....yes they are

Eh eh?

P_1

So me having tattoos is meant to be offensive to you? Please excuse me while I pop off to the loo to find two shíts to give.

Duck's hoop

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

... and half my back done. And they are not done for anyones behalf except for mine.

Serious question. Why get your back done if just for yourself? I rarely see my back tbh. It's not like your sleeves or whatever.

RuggieMuffin

Duck's hoop wrote: »

I really think those people are very much in the minority. Certainly among the tattooed lads and lassies that I know.


It has often been spur of the moment 'I must get a tatoo'. Most of them regret after a bit as well. Certainly in their thirties.

My artist is booked until November - no tattoos on a whim there!

12gauge dave

I dont mind tattoos if people have them i dont think no less no more of them.

I personally dont see the need for them or the point in them but body art has been round for hundreds if not thousands of years so its not just a fashion thing so wont be going anywhere tattoos are here to stay.

Duck's hoop

P_1 wrote: »

So me having tattoos is meant to be offensive to you? Please excuse me while I pop off to the loo to find two shíts to give.

I only wonder sometimes what people were thinking. Like when I see someone driving a Punto or a Daihatsu Charade.


A lot of tattoos are woeful. It's nothing to do with tattoos in general, just their conception and execution.

Wibbs

miamee wrote: »

I don't think tattoos are going away, they have been around for hundreds of years at least.

A very long history, at least 5000 years. Otzi the iceman had em, though one theory has it they were for medicinal purposes of all things. Body art seems to be even older a practice, going way back into the late stone age. Evidence of such pigments show up pretty early in modern humans*. Sadly tattoos don't preserve, unless in truly exceptional circumstances like being deep frozen like Otzi. I dunno if the various bog bodies from here and the rest of europe have tattoos? I suppose body paint would lead quickly enough to more permanent tattooing. Somebody probably noticed if soot or whatever went into a scratch it remained after healing. So tattoos could be a very old artform. Maybe even before cave painting and stuff. Mobile art. Just an odd notion that springs... maybe it even influenced cave painting? If you're tattooed on your own body, maybe painting "tattoos" on the surface of mother earth made sense?

That said I'm generally not a fan of the modern "western" tradition of tattoos. Some can look OK, but wouldn't be into it myself. For me? One or two OK, especially personal ones that actually mean something. Whole limbs obscured I'm thinking ugh. Ones on or near the face = Do not want. Homemade ones = good jesus. I knew one bloke who got one on his head. Must hurt like fook.:eek: Bit of a problem though. He was 20-22 at the time, but the bald gene was inevitable in his family. All shiny eggheads by 30. I'd say he regrets that now.

Again personally I'd draw a line(no pun) between people, enthusiasts who are really into tattoos as a personal artform and those who just have a couple, almost as a whim/fashion statement/thing to do. The former I'd say fair play, even though it's not my bag. It's their bodies and their thing. Doesn't affect me.


I suspect there's quite the element of social silence on the matter of popularity. What I mean is, someone you know gets a tattoo, they show it off to their mates and no one will say "oh jesus that's pretty awful" or whatever out of politeness. Or at least I've never heard that. I have heard in private after a person left plenty of rumblings ranging from "I'd never do that" to "wtf were they thinking". So I'd reckon a fair number of peeps are out there in the dark about what people actually may think of them.





*Interestingly it looks like Neandertal folks were at the body paint stuff before we were and we may have even copied them. They collected all sorts of pigments. Seemed to favour blacks and reds. They even crushed up mica to make the pigments sparkly which is dead fash these days. This was 50,000 plus years ago so nothin new under the sun.

miamee

Duck's hoop wrote: »

I only wonder sometimes what people were thinking. Like when I see someone driving a Punto or a Daihatsu Charade.


A lot of tattoos are woeful. It's nothing to do with tattoos in general, just their conception and execution.

I just Google image searched 'bad tattoos'. The stuff of nightmares.

Duck's hoop

RuggieMuffin wrote: »

My artist is booked until November - no tattoos on a whim there!

Fair dues. But like I say, minority.

P_1

Duck's hoop wrote: »

I only wonder sometimes what people were thinking. Like when I see someone driving a Punto or a Daihatsu Charade.


A lot of tattoos are woeful. It's nothing to do with tattoos in general, just their conception and execution.

Ah yeah there are a lot of howlers of tattoos out there to be fair, but to use your motoring analogy you can have a Mercedes Benz kind of tattoo where a lot of time, effort, design and craftmanship is evident and a Lada type of tattoo where they are lacking.

Duck's hoop

miamee wrote: »

I just Google image searched 'bad tattoos'. The stuff of nightmares.

There's a guy on youtube gets the hipster glasses tattooed on his boat race.

That is epically ill judged.