Does everyone have tattoos nowadays?

wakka12 · 04-02-2017 08:19PM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Fair enough but you get a tattoo and it's there for life all other fashion choices are temporary.

People do think about the future when they make decisions, that's a fiarly normal thing.

Tattoos can be removed..

Penny Tration · 04-02-2017 08:23PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I think tattoos are horrible in general. I did have a small phase when I liked them but I know now for certain I don't like them that doesn't mean I've an issue with them on somebodies body tough. I just don't think they look nice.
I'd have the same opinion about The Renault Megane 11.

I have no problem with people hating them. Piercings freak me out so much I won't even get my ears pierced, so I'd be a hypocrite if I had a problem with people hating tattoos :pac:

I have a problem with people assuming I'm stupid or haven't thought about the ramifications of having one. I have. I know they can hinder job progress so mine are all easily covered (though my job is cool with tattoos), I know they'll stretch as I age, so I chose placement carefully, and so on.

I wouldn't judge someone's personality or character based on their fashion choices, though I may not like their choices.

I think it's cool to think tattoos are disgusting (or ugg boots or heels or piercings etc). I think people should accept that fashion choices or body modification doesn't define who a person is, though .

SATSUMA · 04-02-2017 08:23PM

I have a tattoo of my dead siblings name. Never had one previously nor will I again. People assume it's my child's name or my partner''s, or some ex lover. I love it. It's permanent. It's mine. It makes me think she will never be forgotten. Don't judge me, it's not yours to comment on. Each to their own.

Rubberlegs · 04-02-2017 08:31PM

It never ceases to amaze me why some get so bothered by what others do. I have tattoos, I got them for me and no one else and I don't give a flying sh1te what others think of them. Likewise, I am not going to ask someone why they don't have tattoos, none of my business!

Roark · 04-02-2017 08:31PM

NIMAN wrote: »

My point is that 10 years ago, a man with a beard stood out from the crowd.

Now there are so many beards around, despite the fact that if 4 years ago if you had asked a bearded hipster what he thought of them, he would have said never. But as soon as someone cool starts the trend, all belief goes out the window and the sheep must have them.

I am not saying beards are ugly. Just that they dont separate you from the masses.

That is not what you said in the post that I quoted. This is what you said:

NIMAN wrote: »

They are like beards, meant to make you hip and stand out from the crowd, but in the end it just makes you the same as everyone else.

In your post above you implied that the only reason people grow beards or get tattoos is to stand out from the crowd. Not everyone who has beard or gets a tattoo wants to stand out or be hip. Some just think it adds to their appearance, others I imagine have different reasons. Surely you get that?

mdwexford · 04-02-2017 08:39PM

I think anyone without a tattoo is a pussy.

slovakchick · 04-02-2017 08:40PM

tattoos have their uses, one i can think of is symbolism

mickmac76 · 04-02-2017 08:53PM

I'm not too fond of them and wouldn't get one but each to their own. Those sleeve tattoos are horrible looking though, never seen a decent looking one.

Four Phucs Ache · 04-02-2017 09:20PM

Hopefully if I live to 80 odd I'm going to get a tattoo on my chest with a note to the mortuary staff when I die which goes :

Do a better job on me today than one of your lot did to me grandad in 92.He looked like the joker played by Jack Nicholson.Google it and see what me granny saw.

Thanks.

SEPT 23 1989 · 04-02-2017 09:21PM

One or two looks good but when someone looks like a two year old has had a go at them with a marker it looks grubby

Dirty Dingus McGee · 04-02-2017 09:27PM

73Cat wrote: »

It never ceases to amaze me why some get so bothered by what others do. I have tattoos, I got them for me and no one else and I don't give a flying sh1te what others think of them. Likewise, I am not going to ask someone why they don't have tattoos, none of my business!

You do know that you can dislike something that someone does without being bothered by it.

B.A._Baracus · 04-02-2017 09:31PM

Opinions will always be divided on tattoo's being good or not but can't understand why someone will get a face tattooed on to themselves.

I knew a guy once who had the classic jack nicholson "the shining" face tattooed on to his calf (you know where he breaks through the door and goes heres Johnny)
You even see some die hard fans getting tattoo's of famous celebrities. Weirdos.

markc1184 · 04-02-2017 09:32PM

I've none myself. No problem with people having them it's just not for me.

Rubberlegs · 04-02-2017 09:49PM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

You do know that you can dislike something that someone does without being bothered by it.

A lot of replies here would suggest otherwise !

JustAThought · 04-02-2017 10:28PM

73Cat wrote: »

A lot of replies here would suggest otherwise !

I was watching a thing on youtube on tattoos recently - a really beautiful english girl who was exploring the forbidden world of tattoing in Korea. She was a classic beauty and had perfect porcelaine skin . I kept trying to figure what it was about half her face - turned out she had had 'white' tatoos over it. Not body scarring or raising but a white tatoo. I winder if like other coloured tattoos that will fade into indigo over time like the red,yellow& blue ones do - or if ot will stay white?

She had also had her eyeballs tattood; I jest you not. Google Russian prison eyeball tattoos if you want to revisit your dinner.

ps - No. One or two of my circle but out of 40 I'd say 3, and 2 of them
Regret it - the other is too pernamently unavailable on drinks or drugs to really have a conversation with. He struggles to find work thou - neck and hand tattoos are a mistake. iMO.

andekwarhola · 04-02-2017 10:48PM

Any time I fancy getting one on my arm, I just picture myself in my 60s, at a family get together, wearing short sleeves and it disabuses me of the notion.

Depp · 04-02-2017 11:56PM

this ''what about when you're 60'' notion is nonsense, any tattoo thats done properly by an artist doesn't stop being art, you dont look at the mona lisa and say ''the colour has faded a bit so its not art anymore''. if its a well thought out tattoo that you got done properly and not something like ''malaga '16'' on your arse and you love it when you're 25, the likelihood is you'll still love it when you're 80. you don't like tattoos thats fine, theyre not for you. But when someone suggests that I've no sense of foresight or ability to plan for the future by asking have i not thought about what it'll look like when I'm older is massively ignorant. (for the record I don't have any sense of foresight but still...:D)

Bambi985 · 05-02-2017 12:08AM

Skinny jeans, tight t-shirt with chest on show, Conor McGregor beard, greasy comb-over, sleeve of tattoos, and either overly ripped or too fat to be wearing any of that. Your basic male tinder profile these days.

Tin Foil Hat · 05-02-2017 12:12AM

It's a fashion. Nothing more.
Imagine never being able to take off your 70's bellbottoms, or chop off your 80's mullet.

murphyebass · 05-02-2017 12:13AM

Depp wrote: »

this ''what about when you're 60'' notion is nonsense, any tattoo thats properly done by properly by an artist doesn't stop being art, you dont look at the mona lisa and say ''the colour has faded a bit so its not art anymore''. if its a well thought out tattoo that you got done properly and not something like ''malaga '16'' on your arse and you love it when you're 25, the likelihood is you'll still love it when you're 80. you don't like tattoos thats fine, theyre not for you. But when someone suggests that I've no sense of foresight or ability to plan for the future by asking have i not thought about what it'll look like when I'm older is massively ignorant. (for the record I don't have any sense of foresight but still...:D)

Doesn't stop being art you say.

It never was and never will be art I say.

You and a lot of others love them.

I think they look absolutely and utterly vile, manky, dirty, knackery, etc..

That said it really would be a boring world if we all thought the same so each to their own.

prinzeugen · 05-02-2017 12:40AM

Depp wrote: »

this ''what about when you're 60'' notion is nonsense, any tattoo thats properly done by properly by an artist doesn't stop being art, you dont look at the mona lisa and say ''the colour has faded a bit so its not art anymore''. if its a well thought out tattoo that you got done properly and not something like ''malaga '16'' on your arse and you love it when you're 25, the likelihood is you'll still love it when you're 80. you don't like tattoos thats fine, theyre not for you. But when someone suggests that I've no sense of foresight or ability to plan for the future by asking have i not thought about what it'll look like when I'm older is massively ignorant. (for the record I don't have any sense of foresight but still...:D)

My granddad was covered in tattoos that he got during WW2. Said it was the biggest mistake of his life.

None of my aunts or uncles got tattoos as they knew what my granddad would do to them.

I don't have any nor does my brother of cousins as we know they don't look well on saggy 60 year old skin.

Wibbs · 05-02-2017 01:01AM

Depp wrote: »

this ''what about when you're 60'' notion is nonsense, any tattoo thats properly done by properly by an artist doesn't stop being art, you dont look at the mona lisa and say ''the colour has faded a bit so its not art anymore''.

Ah here, if Leo DaVinci was up for applying the ink then grand, but it is one helluva stretch to put an old master like Leo and a painting like Mona(not his best work either) in the same breath as a tattoo artist and the average tattoo, certainly the vast majority of same.

seachto7 · 05-02-2017 01:06AM

murphyebass wrote: »

I think they look absolutely and utterly vile, manky, dirty, knackery, etc..

That said it really would be a boring world if we all thought the same so each to their own.

Do you judge people on accents?

Noveight · 05-02-2017 01:12AM

I don't have any but it is something I have considered. They don't make me think any more / less of a person.

xLisaBx · 05-02-2017 01:19AM

"Your tattoo will look disgusting when you are wrinkled in 40 years time"

"All of me will look disgusting when I'm wrinkled in 40 years time". Tattoo ain't gonna change that. Personally I love my tattoo, Harry Potter based and dedicated to my dad. It's small, but my proudest part of my body.

the_pen_turner · 05-02-2017 01:22AM

i hate tattoos , i think they are disgusting, show very little class

i think i have only seen 2 -3 tats that i liked.

but i will defend someones right to have them if they want though. each to their own.

PARlance · 05-02-2017 01:23AM

osarusan wrote: »

I don't have any. When I was younger I seriously thought about getting one of a big skeleton with red glowing eyes across my chest. Obviously glad I didn't now.

What colour eyes did you go for in the end?

PARlance · 05-02-2017 01:34AM

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

Hopefully if I live to 80 odd I'm going to get a tattoo on my chest with a note to the mortuary staff when I die which goes :

Do a better job on me today than one of your lot did to me grandad in 92.He looked like the joker played by Jack Nicholson.Google it and see what me granny saw.

Thanks.

That's grand as long as you don't die while getting the tattoo. The mortuary staff could be left with a "Do a bet" message.
Down to the bookies, few pints the joke will be on you.

JupiterKid · 05-02-2017 01:39AM

It does seems that a lot of people under the age of 30 or 35 have tattoos. I've been toying with the idea of a tattoo for many years now but just can't decide on one that would be very original and tasteful. A discreet, modest and original tattoo can be nice.

I've no problem with tattoos but some are pretty manky. You can see why TV shows like Tattoo Fixers are popular. Some people get their tats whilst locked off their head on holidays and put in ex's names and other stuff. Cringeworthy!

For some reason gay male porn stars are big into tattoos. One fella even has his lad tattooed. Ouch!!:eek:

gctest50 · 05-02-2017 02:06AM

JustAThought wrote: »

I was watching a thing on youtube on tattoos recently - a really beautiful english girl who was exploring the forbidden world of tattoing in Korea. She was a classic beauty and had perfect porcelaine skin . I kept trying to figure what it was about half her face - turned out she had had 'white' tatoos over it. Not body scarring or raising but a white tatoo. I winder if like other coloured tattoos that will fade into indigo over time like the red,yellow& blue ones do - or if ot will stay white?

She had also had her eyeballs tattood; I jest you not. Google Russian prison eyeball tattoos if you want to revisit your dinner.
..................

scarified no ?

http://imgur.com/wDxEHSR

you kinda missed her forked tongue

Does everyone have tattoos nowadays?

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