Tattoo

[cariann88]

Thanks for showing off your ink cariann. Was the one on your wrist uncomfortable when it was done? Don't know why but I always imagine that to be quite sensitive spot.

It didnt hurt at all the one on my wrist. But I must admit it really did hurt on my back.

[cariann88]

I once had my belly button pierced but my body rejected it.

[craftymarie]

I have a phobia of needles and I'm a total wuss as well so don't think I'll go for a tattoo anytime soon

They can look good and especially on younger people but not always so great seeing them on oldies.

Can't understand why people have tats on their face though and eyeballs even which really makes me feel sick.

[Tripmeup]

None here, not for me...
.. but each to their own

[Coopers]

I do consider getting a tattoo. Either something I've designed or a statement I believe in... I would put it either back, chest or inner bicep.

I personally think the persona of someone being tattood is/has changed and tattoos typically fall into: I want to get my parents back, this tat I'm seeing elsewhere looks cool I fancy that, or this tattoo connects with me.

To beat the perception, I know many intellectuals with tattoos. One professor always recommended ones that you connect with and he took it very seriously. One tattoo he planned for ages and actually met the artist several times before proceeding...

each to their own...

[muddled]

I have a tattoo of a daisy chain around my upper arm.
I am planning to have it redone as it is looking a little tired now...I shall have a few bits and pieces added as well to better represent the person I have grown into.

My neighbour, Iris, who is well into her eighties got her first tattoo last year....its a bigun as well. Five twining red roses from her shoulder to her elbow for her five daughters. She told me she always fancied getting one but worried how it would look when she was old. Now that she is old she wants to look like a woman with a past.
Fair point, well made.

I like tattoos that are well considered and beautifully executed. Permanent art to carry with you always. I think cooper's professor has the right idea, plan it, choose an artist whose work you admire, meet them several times to be sure you understand each other....and then go for it!

[Small pumpkin]

I have a tattoo of a daisy chain around my upper arm.
I am planning to have it redone as it is looking a little tired now...I shall have a few bits and pieces added as well to better represent the person I have grown into.

My neighbour, Iris, who is well into her eighties got her first tattoo last year....its a bigun as well. Five twining red roses from her shoulder to her elbow for her five daughters. She told me she always fancied getting one but worried how it would look when she was old. Now that she is old she wants to look like a woman with a past.
Fair point, well made.

I like tattoos that are well considered and beautifully executed. Permanent art to carry with you always. I think cooper's professor has the right idea, plan it, choose an artist whose work you admire, meet them several times to be sure you understand each other....and then go for it!

I love the idea of a design of tattoo you can add too so it grows with you.... Brilliant
Good for your neighbour. I like her style. Also I good idea. My mother had her first tattoo at 60+

I also agree with coopers professor. you have to plan, design & have some sort of connection with the artist. The latest tattoo I'm planing, I have already had it designed by an artist. I won't be getting it done there, because I instantly took a dislike to the man. His first mistake was not listening to the customer, he wouldn't make the design the size I wanted it. Second mistake he didn't want it to go where I wanted it. Lastly he was openly racist. So I will not be paying someone like that! So looking for an artist I don't instantly hate, who will listen and take more than 10 minutes on the design!

[Lumpy]

I find it absolutely fascinating that something as simple as a tattoo can alter how people are seen by each other.

I know tattoo's still have alot of negative associations with them - people with them are either criminals, junkies, loose women or general trouble makers. That was the attitude of my mother when she saw mine and then called me a very nasty name, which, would not have happened had I not been inked.

However, I think it's such a shame that this is another area where we can judge people by their appearance rather than their personality.

I suppose its the permanence of the ink that causes the problem as every other form of bodily enhancement be it hair colour and style or clothing is temporary.

[Bal]

I hated tattoos as I was growing up and always associated them with a particular type of person. I remember scanning a completely tattooed lady through several pregnancy. The first time she arrived in the department she had a beautiful tigers head which covered her whole stomach. As the pregnancy progressed it got bigger an more distorted. It looked awful. When she cam back with her next pregnancy it was stretched out of shape an ruined by stretch marks. She had 3 more pregnancies you can imagine what it looked like by then. However my OH has several tattoes.

[Bal]

I was very surprised when I saw them. I had known him for a while before we hot together but he didn't have any then. After his parents died within a year of each other he had one done on each calf in memory of the. An English lion and a welsh dragon. He the really got the bug and has several more, but each one has a very special meaning to him. When we got together I was just getting over a very bad time in my life and decided to have a tattoo as well. I have a largish Phoenix on my upper thigh hip. It was very symbolic for me. I won't have any more.

[muddled]

One interesting thing..
(well, it interested me...)

My dad had a tattoo aged 16 when he went to sea.
(as you do)

Forty years later the tattoo was very faded.
Dad had a couple of ulcers burst and needed four emergency blood tranfusions. We rushed to his bedside in intensive care and the first thing we noticed was his tattoo...it looked as though it had done that very day! The colours were absolutely vivid.

Weird.
The doctors and nurses found it fascinating and kept coming round to look at it but couldn't explain why.

[Jay22]

The nicest tattoo I've seen is on my sons friends wrist. She is quite young, 22, her dad died a few years ago and she has his signature tattooed on her wrist. She can cover it with a watch or piece of jewellery when she wants. When she showed me it, it was quite touching, it's hard to explain but it's like something tangible she has of her dad, if you know what I mean?

[Aberdeenplotter]

What I can't understand is why some folks in the public eye e.g. Cheryl Fernadez-Versini who imho is absolutely gorgeous to start with feels the need to "spoil" what she has naturally. David Beckham, a good looking guy falls into the same category.

I do agree it's each to their own, I just don't understand the need.

[bearded bloke]

^^^^ +1

This is the one occasion I do understand ............




Which of necessity continues on the back.......




Reason is here ..... Laurie Jess: ♥ Double Mastectomy Tattoo

[jackarmy]

and in my old fashioned opinion say something about the wearer, which is less than complimentary.

I think that says more about you than anything else tbh Bill.