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Getting a hand tattoo?

  • 21-04-2021 01:32PM
    #1
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭


    So I was vaguely thinking of getting a tattoo on my hand.

    Always a tricky one.

    I'm in my 40s, have a full sleeve on one arm and numerous other tattoos around my body and other arm, but they are all able to be hidden. I would work in a professional / office type job, and am well established (there 13 years this year).

    The last year has proven that for the most part I can do my job remotely. Our place is all about "bring your whole self to work", so while a hand tattoo might be an extreme version of that, it would still be in keeping with that ethos (at least, that would be my argument!). I wouldn't be in the office 9-5 usually anyway, so would operate sort of under the radar optically. Given that I can see myself spending around 70% of my future working time at home, something like a hand tattoo might just be doable.

    I had considered that if I had to go to outside client meetings (which I would be suited and booted for) I could wrap cloth around my hand as you would for an injury. For clients who know me well, I probably wouldn't bother.

    Has anyone experience to share about hand tattoos, and what they had to do to work around / with?


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  • #2
    supermouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭supermouse


    I have sleeves, back pieces, a finger tattoo and a hand tattoo, both done overseas. Truth be told they were much more accepted over there, no one really bats an eyelid only perhaps just to ask meaning/representation/ if they hurt.

    I moved back home and went into the corporate world and you'd swear I had killed someones Nana with the grimaces and dirty looks. In my neck of the Irish woods hand/neck/face tattoo's arent well-received yet. I have been treated differently because I have ink and that's not okay.

    In some meetings I found myself purposefully keeping my hands under the table, wearing long sleeves in summer and hesitating for handshakes. I did all this out of fear of judgement. I realise shouldn't; out of a work environment, I wear my ink with pride and love and do not succumb to conservative thinking.

    If you want it, go for it. I adore mine, would never change them. F what anyone else thinks.


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