Tattoo's who got one and who wants one?

[Garin]

Couldn't wait to turn 18 to get my first tattoo. I still remember the 10 hours and multiple sessions of pain. I never wanted another

[zookeeper]

I come from a generation when tatooos were almost exclusively seen on bikers and prisoners. The thought of having one has never entered my mind.

[Dustin]

I plan on getting a tattoo at some point in my life. I don't just want anything though. It has to be something meaningful to me.

While I decide on what tattoo I'm going to get, I was thinking about getting a finger mustache tattoo just as a tester.

How is the pain?

[Garin]

I plan on getting a tattoo at some point in my life. I don't just want anything though. It has to be something meaningful to me.

While I decide on what tattoo I'm going to get, I was thinking about getting a finger mustache tattoo just as a tester.

How is the pain?

Everyone is different, and it can depend on where on your body you get it. My 2 hour tattoo turned into 3 sessions cause my skin welled up and he couldn't work on it. It sucked big time ,I'm sure I'm a rare case.

[trousers]

Everyone is different, and it can depend on where on your body you get it. My 2 hour tattoo turned into 3 sessions cause my skin welled up and he couldn't work on it. It sucked big time ,I'm sure I'm a rare case.

I've heard of that happening. It's rare but it happens.
The main thing is location. The less meat between the tattoo and the bone the more it's going to hurt.

[Garin]

Wonder if this guys regretting his decision...lol

[trousers]

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While I decide on what tattoo I'm going to get, I was thinking about getting a finger mustache tattoo just as a tester.
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I've got to advise against this. The finger mustache tattoo is pretty fad-ish and will carry a heavy "why did I pick this factor". It's the hipster version of the frat boy barbwire or tribal tattoo. Those may have been cool for about 10 minutes in the 90's but thats about it. Remember this is something that is not easily removed and you will carry for a while.
I can just imagine how cool those guys in the 80's thought their Max Headroom tat's where.

[Bunty]

When I want a tattoo, I put on a fake one.

[BBatesokc]

I realized early on I've never personally known an older adult (whom I look up to or respect - or find respectable) that didn't regret their tattoo. Even my dad often stated he regretted his Marine tattoo on his arm and he was hard core marine till the end and saw combat.

That's probably what kept me from getting one. But, in the last decade or so it seems that more and more 'average' people are getting them. I know some adults now that are fine with their tattoos.

I find them attractive on some women (though in truth its probably more 'sexual' than attractive) - but only in their 'youth.' I can't imagine a 60 year old with huge angel wings on her back or one of those native tats above her butt crack. I've actually broken off dating someone in the past because of their tattoos that couldn't be hidden easily. I've dated other women that had tattoos in a discreet location, and I don't see that as a big deal.

A tattoo on me (at any age) would look ridiculous.

I do wish they'd come out with really good temporary tattoos that could stay on until you want to remove them.

[kevinpate]

Never wanted a tattoo, despite appreciating the art involved.

[Achilleslastand]

Came very close to getting a tattoo in Oceanside California while going through Infantry Training School but due to being a led wallet did not.

[boscorama]

Rule of thumb about tatoos: No names, no numbers.

That said, last Christmas my fam was playing Wits and Wagers (game). Question was, what percentage of American adults have a tatoo? My stepson (35) guessed about 70%, I (63) guessed 20%. I was damnear on the mark!

[ljbab728]

This has been discussed here before and my opinion has not changed. I won't fault people who decide to get a tattoo but I think they make people look dirty and certainly do nothing to enhance anyone's appeal in the least. My daughter, for some reason, decided to get a small tattoo on her arm a number of years ago. She now has to wear long sleeves when she is at work to hide it and I'm sure she wishes she hadn't done it.

[Prunepicker]

I have a friend who got a tattoo because of grief. I can't tell how
irritated he became when nobody else in his family wouldn't get a
memorial tattoo.

Tattoos are so irrational. I'm not saying they're stupid. Not at all.
Tat's are simply irrational.

I believe the best tattoo is a Henna. It'll be gone by the time you
finally realize that getting a permanent tat was a very stupid idea.

[Jeepnokc]

I have a friend who got a tattoo because of grief. I can't tell how
irritated he became when nobody else in his family wouldn't get a
memorial tattoo.

Tattoos are so irrational. I'm not saying they're stupid. Not at all.
Tat's are simply irrational.

I believe the best tattoo is a Henna. It'll be gone by the time you
finally realize that getting a permanent tat was a very stupid idea.

I think tattoos are a personal expression. They are not right for everyone. My wife thought about getting one also about the same time and I talked her into waiting because she had never thought of one before whereas I had thought of one but none had ever seemed right until I got mine. I am guessing my wife changed her mind as she has never expressed any other interest after that time in getting one. It is definitely a personal choice that no one should get upset at another for getting one or not getting one. It is kind like those big ear lobe ring holes that people get. I think they look kind of cool but I am never doing that.

[mkjeeves]

Do have some fading teenager made razorblade body mods but no ink myself. Do admire some of the work I've seen. A friend in more recent years got a tat of an ouroboros graphic I designed for a project we were working on.

[Prunepicker]

I think tattoos are a personal expression...

I agree to a point. Have you noticed that most of the people who are
supposedly proclaiming self expression are really expressing total
conformity to their peers?

Seriously. If you want to make a personal statement then do it.
However, the modern tattoo culture is expressing conformity to
something they are totally unaware of.

Why someone would want to think that something they permanently put
on their body will always be an expression of non conformity is totally
bogus. Believe me, in 20 years you aren't going to believe what you
currently believe to be true.

Been there (Woodstock culture)
Done that (1% Biker culture)
Got a T-Shirt (went to the bathroom)

[ljbab728]

Believe me, in 20 years you aren't going to believe what you
currently believe to be true.

Wonderful. I'm looking forward to hearing what you believe in 2034.

[TheTravellers]

I agree to a point. Have you noticed that most of the people who are
supposedly proclaiming self expression are really expressing total
conformity to their peers?

Seriously. If you want to make a personal statement then do it.
However, the modern tattoo culture is expressing conformity to
something they are totally unaware of.

Why someone would want to think that something they permanently put
on their body will always be an expression of non conformity is totally
bogus. Believe me, in 20 years you aren't going to believe what you
currently believe to be true.

Been there (Woodstock culture)
Done that (1% Biker culture)
Got a T-Shirt (went to the bathroom)

There is so much wrong with this post, I won't even start. Did you know tattooing has been going on for hundreds, if not thousands of years? You have absolutely no idea why any specific person gets tattoos, be it conformity, non-conformity, grief, personal philosophy, have to because you're part of a primitive tribe deep in Africa, ad infinitum. I don't even know why I read or respond to any of your posts, it's like beating my head against a 40-foot thick brick wall, sad that you live with such narrow beliefs, glad I don't know you in RL.

[Dennis Heaton]

I prefer Tattoo's on other people.

[hoya]

I'm a square. No tats for me.

[LocoAko]

I have a treble clef on my right shoulder blade, and at some point will get another. Yay for being dirty!

[RadicalModerate]

Came very close to getting a tattoo one time, while visiting what was left of The Pike in Long Beach. But it was going to cost about $120 and the "Illustrated Man" who ran the place didn't have EXACTLY the design that I wanted. I don't regret it a bit. btw: I said he was the "Illustrated Man". That's what the old pictures from the 30's and 40's on the walls of the place showed. By the time I met him, many decades later, he had morphed into the Vague Blue, Green and Other Colored Cloud Man.

[PennyQuilts]

Being a barely baby boomer, I grew up with seeing nice big MOM tats on veterans' upper arms so that is normal, to me. It isn't a bad place to put one and tends to wear well. Also easy to hide at work. But the tats so many women get and the places they put them are often creepy, to me. I mean, they aren't going to stay where they started and a cute, sexy tattoo on a sweet young thing's fanny is just not the same thing on granny, even if she turns into an old stick instead of adding the 10-15 pounds so many get during the change. I don't suppose it matters and it gives the EMS crew something to gasp over, I suppose. Just be aware that that sort of tat becomes a symbol of what you WERE more often than not.

And please god, please, please, please spare us the ladies that don peekaboo sexy tats who would be better advised to work out and eat better if they want to be more fetching.

I have an adorable niece with a super cute behind and tiny waist. She is never going to be fat (got her dad's genes) but those full body angel wings that cover her back aren't going to stay put even if she ages well. And breast tats? Wouldn't advise it.

All that being said, I really enjoy the sight of a pretty colored tat that is well done. I just don't think it is the kind of thing that ages well. And at the end of the day, no matter how pretty, you're still wearing a cartoon. And no neck tattoos. And women, just because it is behind your ear so YOU can't see it when you look in the mirror doesn't mean the rest of us don't see it. It sort of makes you look dumb - like a kid who covers their eyes and thinks they are invisible.

Rules, rules, rules - I know.

[Zuplar]

I don't have any myself, but have thought on getting an upper arm one that's fairly common. I don't mind them, but personally I would never get one that I couldn't cover up with a T-shirt. My sister has several and if it were up to her I think she'd get a sleeve down. Still so many businesses dress code says you can't have them visible, so for that reason I use the T-shirt test. I do think as they have become a lot more sociably acceptable, you will see businesses relax their policies.

On a side note same thing can be said about men's facial hair. I know several places that don't allow it or at most a well trimmed mustache.