When, oh when, will the tattoo craze die out?

[nightshade]

I'm so darn tired of the tattoo craze that finds beautiful young , and mature, women covered in tattoo's to the point it takes away from their natural beauty.

What's wrong with the younger generation that they have money for tattoo's but not the bills they own or for food on the table?

[mychotik]

Tattooing has been in the American mainstream for over two decades..as are various piercings. Its pretty much an embedded element of western culture.

Deal with it. There are plenty of women who do not get tattooed.
Probably more than who do.

As far as your last sentence....

[abduction]

[freaks1932]

I'm so darn tired of the tattoo craze that finds beautiful young , and mature, women covered in tattoo's to the point it takes away from their natural beauty.

What's wrong with the younger generation that they have money for tattoo's but not the bills they own or for food on the table?

I have tattoos and I love them. They are for me to look at and appreciate, not you. If you don't like them then fine but there is nothing wrong with people having them and there are others who do not find them ugly. It's a matter of opinion.

[big_mike]

I'm under 30.  Since the time I got my first tats and piercings I've gotten two degrees, won sole custody of my daughter, got a great salary position which allows me to own my own home and make all of my bill payments on time.  I don't get a penny of government assistance, and yet I can still afford to keep getting tats...  Go figure.

Tats don't make you a bad person, nor is a person with a tat automatically some kind of parasitic waste.

If it's your money and your body, you should be free to get whatever you want done.  If you want to get lightning stripes tattooed down the shaft of your *****, go ahead.  If you want to get "Hoover" tattooed on the side of your nose, go ahead.  Whatever you do, don't let untattoed, self righteous peons try to tell you that it makes you a bad person.

Of course they're all probably too busy having gay sex with their priest after mass to listen to you defend yourself.

[nikki ticky tavi]

I have one on my lower back. It's the only one I have and sometimes I wish I hadn't had it done.

[mb]

I don't have any ink, but I would really like to have a very tiny, demure tat of a rose/shell behind my ear.

I have no probs with tats. I only get a bit judgmental when folks are whining about not having enough money to pay bills but somehow they always seem to have money for new tatoos and/or piercings.

[ringotuna]

Not a big fan of tats. I've got enough scars without paying someone to give me more. :D

But Hey. To each their own. If it makes ya happy....

For some giggles. Google "bad tatoos"

[wiccanliberal]

I have four and want a fifth. I got my first ink after age 35. Each of the designs I have gotten has meaning for me and was the result of research and long thought. None of them show when I am working but any or all of them may be on view when I am dressed for leisure, depending on what I choose to wear. Someone doesn't like my ink? Too bad, don't look.

[big_mike]

I have four and want a fifth. I got my first ink after age 35. Each of the designs I have gotten has meaning for me and was the result of research and long thought. None of them show when I am working but any or all of them may be on view when I am dressed for leisure, depending on what I choose to wear. Someone doesn't like my ink? Too bad, don't look.

My dragon tat is 72 square inches and glows in a black light.  No one can ignore that sucker.  ;)

[wiccanliberal]

Very cool - got any pics of it? Fact is as a nurse I can't allow them to show when I am working. All of them are under cover of my scrubs but this time of the year, when I am off duty, they all show. (One on the ankle, one on the left shoulder, one right chest and one lower back.)

[big_mike]

Very cool - got any pics of it? Fact is as a nurse I can't allow them to show when I am working. All of them are under cover of my scrubs but this time of the year, when I am off duty, they all show. (One on the ankle, one on the left shoulder, one right chest and one lower back.)

No, sadly.  The shop closed down and their website has been turned off since my tattooist got busted for heroin possession.  All I can show is a distance shot, nothing up close.

[waswillbe13]

I'm so darn tired of the tattoo craze that finds beautiful young , and mature, women covered in tattoo's to the point it takes away from their natural beauty.

What's wrong with the younger generation that they have money for tattoo's but not the bills they own or for food on the table?

I have to agree that women do not look as attractive as some think they do. I have dated women with them, but i do not think i would ever stay in a relationship with one, as i have not. I just can not stand looking at them. I have been with some very very hot women, but that tattoo just keep annoying me in the back of my mind.

I am a biker and many of my biker friends always ask me when am i going to get a tattoo. I alway say NEVER as i do not like them. I have even gotten into a few fight when they are druk and try to hold me down to put one on me. So far no one has been able to. So i have not hung around them as much as i also do not like being associated with biker clubs or gangs. I am a bad -ss and don't need the back up.

I have been going to church lately and looking for a good woman, but i still some them with tattoo so they are out unless they be willing to get them removed.

[wiccanliberal]

Very cool - got any pics of it? Fact is as a nurse I can't allow them to show when I am working. All of them are under cover of my scrubs but this time of the year, when I am off duty, they all show. (One on the ankle, one on the left shoulder, one right chest and one lower back.)

No, sadly.  The shop closed down and their website has been turned off since my tattooist got busted for heroin possession.  All I can show is a distance shot, nothing up close.

Looks very nice. Have any issues with the glow in the dark ink? How do they manage to get it placed properly?

[big_mike]

Very cool - got any pics of it? Fact is as a nurse I can't allow them to show when I am working. All of them are under cover of my scrubs but this time of the year, when I am off duty, they all show. (One on the ankle, one on the left shoulder, one right chest and one lower back.)

No, sadly.  The shop closed down and their website has been turned off since my tattooist got busted for heroin possession.  All I can show is a distance shot, nothing up close.

Looks very nice. Have any issues with the glow in the dark ink? How do they manage to get it placed properly?

Yes, I had problems.

The first batch of glow in the dark ink was put on when the stuff first came out, ten years ago when I first got the tat.  It turned brown really quickly, and I've had to have two touch ups since then.  The newer ink seems to work much better.

The ink is easy to place because I only wanted the orange to shine.  The green packs in well enough that it didn't need help showing up.  Thus, only the hair and tail on the dragon are actually in GITD ink.

Some of my other tats, like my back piece and the aforementioned lightning bolts, also use the GITD ink, and they rock!

[Zon]

Every time I see a trendy hipster with tribal tattoos, following the latest fashion, I always envision them when they are old and all wrinkly in an old peoples nursing home, still wearing their 'cool' and 'fashionable' tribal.

[ringotuna]

Buddy of mine wanted a "MOM" tatoo on his arm but didn't have quite enough money. So he put it on his butt instead and saved $75.00 on the O.

:D

[Sail]

Me no likey Tattoo!  

[ringotuna]

Buddy of mine wanted a "MOM" tatoo on his arm but didn't have quite enough money. So he put it on his butt instead and saved $75.00 on the O.

:D

I'd say he got his moneys worth....cause when ya flip him upside down it says WOW.

[big_mike]

Every time I see a trendy hipster with tribal tattoos, following the latest fashion, I always envision them when they are old and all wrinkly in an old peoples nursing home, still wearing their 'cool' and 'fashionable' tribal.

Tribal tats are kinda stupid.

However, tats won't get "old and wrinkly" if you keep them touched up.  You've gotta take care of them, just like anything else.

[Zon]

My point was more that tattoos are a fashion AND permanent. Those two things are at odds with each other.

[wiccanliberal]

I tend to partially disagree. Tattoos have been around a long time and the reasons for getting them vary. Mine are not primarily a fashion statement. I won't go into the reasons here as it is a long and tedious story but the ink I carry has personal meaning for me. Agreed many people do get tattooed for the wrong reasons. These are the ones who will eventually regret them.

[big_mike]

My point was more that tattoos are a fashion AND permanent. Those two things are at odds with each other.

I totally disagree.

My left leg, for instance, is dedicated to my family.  The tree you see in my picture is my family tree, with the names of my grandparents on the roots, my parents forming the supporting trunk, then my name at the base of the limbs, and my daughter's name on one of the limbs, but with extra limbs ready in case I have more kids in the future.

When I know I'm not going to have any more children, I'll get the tat finished and color bombed.

On the other side of my left leg is my family's last name, colored in the the family's tartan (the pattern found on our ancestral clan's kilt).

Neither of those are, in my opinion, fashion statements.  More like memorials.

And the last time I checked, humans have been big on memorials since they stacked the Pyramids in Egypt.

[attaburnsinhell]

I got my first tattoo in 1984 in an illegal shop in Brooklyn NY by an italian guy named Mikey. You'd call up and get an appointment usually at 4 in the morning. When me and my friends got there after a night of hitting the punk clubs we got on line with Hells Angels and guido mafia kids

Mikey's shop was in his mother's basement with a backdoor entrance in Bensonhurst. he was the only guy in town and he had a fat wad of cash in his pocket. I ended up getting five tattoos from Mikey over the years and the experience of going there was a blast, always done with a crew of five guys. We'd end up going home around ten in the morning or hanging with goodfellas types in Brooklyn diners comparing our work

When i show my work to younger people I tell them these tattoos are older then they are

[edro14]

Sorry no tats for me....never liked them or ever wanted one.

I remember while living in the S. Cal area in the Vario.....every one around had gang tats.

Had to fight just to do my own thing, never have followed the herd and never will!

[Grassroots]

Sorry no tats for me....never liked them or ever wanted one.

I remember while living in the S. Cal area in the Vario.....every one around had gang tats.

Had to fight just to do my own thing, never have followed the herd and never will!

Same here...never even pierced my ears....but if I did get one it might be something like this;

(up higher or on my arm since I'm a dude):cool: