[DuckFat]

Originally Posted by dishdave

Anyone who has a problem with me because of the way my tattoos look, or the fact that I have tattoos, isn't someone I care to associate with anyway.

The thing is that many of us felt that way when we were young. That may be an issue ten years from now if you have a full sleeve and tats across your knuckles as you interview for your dream job. The establishment hiring may have a clean cut image and you just lost out because of a choice you made when you were young. Tattoos may be more accepted now but that matters little as what is common or popular today won't likely won't be the same in ten years.
The sad thing is a lot of what I see is really poor work. If you get one wait until you can hire a good artist.

[lentil]

There are 7 of us at my place, all are women, and 4 of us are over 30 with 2 being over 50. I am the only one without a tatoo. 2 of the women have them in places that aren't seen like bikini line or over the breast, one has an ankle bracelet type tat, and 2 of the young girls (20 and 21) have completely silly tats- in my opinion. One of them gets tatooed when a family member dies-"I love you Gram" with a heart sort of thing- she has 4. The other has an oven mit on her wrist that is done in pastel colors. On her upper hip- so it shows when she bends over or her shirt rides- is an elephant that she thought was "cute". It is. Cute. It's more like coloring than art. The art I sort of get.

Then there's the woman who applied for a job with me. She had a tat up the back of her neck, was about 45 but had seen some hard times and looked closer to 60. She wore her hair up to show it off. Not art. Not even cute.

Oh yeah! I saw an older woman this summer from a distance with what looked like some bad spider vein problem on her upper thigh and I thought, "how sad for her". When I got closer, I realized it was a tatoo- done in blue. Not a thought out choice for a woman's thigh. She obviously didn't think ahead.

[bughut]

If you've never had one, it's not easy to explain the pleasure of actually having one. I love mine, although I'm away to get it tweaked... I've a small tribal on my wrist, which is amazingly easy to hide, as i had it positioned so it wouldn't be seen from most angles. I'm having it feminised by having a sharp outline, blending into the base of my hand just below the pinkie. OH thinks everything I do is okay, so I really dont have a problem with anyone else..It's personal. And they can be very sexy.

No.1 son has a full Japenese sleeve. Carp/water/demons and a dragon over his chest, back and shoulder...Magnificent. No.2 son is more into tribal. Last one was awful, cos he worked around his moles. (what a mess. Lots of moles) So he has lots of holes in the finished art work. Doesnt know what to do about it.

Looking forward to seeing your pics Fryguy

[Just Jim]

I got my first one this year.
It's on my inner right forearm.
I would absolutely LOVE to be around to see what it looks like in 50 years.