Someone wrote (might've been T C Boyle) that they don't like tattoos in intimate places .... they just suggest 'traffic'.
I know what he means.

I spotted one in a Quality Restaurant yesterday, a woman in a vest top with what looked like lace tatooed on her breast.

Of course, once I'd managed to work out what it was, it was actually the edge of her bra.

Well, I saw one similar to the one cyteen describes... A yound woman with "sexy bitch" on her arm. WHY would you do that to yourself !!!!!!!

I saw a woman in her early twenties the other day, gorgeous figure, lovely legs wearing shorts and then she turned round and she had tattoos up the back of both legs like lace up boots, completes with tattooed 'eyelets'

Heh, I know what you mean. I'm still considering a memorial piece for my brother and he died two years ago.

It's good to consider these things carefully. The evidence is all around us after all

Jodie Marsh looks like someone has been doodling on her arm. Nothing matches.

cyteen - something to remember my mother - am working on a few designs but none have really worked properly yet...I was recommended someone in greenwich but every time I pluck up the courage to move forward with it I get The Fear.

I saw a woman sat outside a pub in town yesterday who had 'Royal Bitch' tattooed across her cleavage in rather nice flowing script.

Have to admit to staring at one tattoo yesterday, it was a badly 'joint' tattoo on a mum's arm...

GI, indeed you can't

this thread is one of the funniest I've read for ages.

I have no tattoos nor any desire for one so probably have no business here anyway but stil, PMSL.

wow! you expect old guys to be doing the old blue ink style pop eye type tatts, not tasteful modern ones. really good work

Jodie Marsh, for a minute there i thought that was Pete Burns

cant see yours cyteen

I also liked their "increasingly freakish looking Jodie". They were spot on there.

sorry yes they are vile too

Thankfully you are ginger and so your opinion can be instantly disregarded

lol at this

"Jodie, who has no discernible talent",

Am loving the DM for the quote 'jodie, who has no discernible talent...'

No other reason I should point out.

You have beautiful children SGK- beautiful.

no ALl tattoos are scummy

not bad for a 70 year man eh?? he has been doing it a long time now....

Arse, sorry, Bob Tyrell.

Oh the shame of cocking up a link...it burns far worse than having a tattoo ever could

(add to disclaimer - and SparklyGothKats - they are beautiful! you obv have a v talented tattoo person )

Norbert, most portraits are pretty cruddy, true...but check out [[http://www.bobtyrrell.com/galleries/portraits.php Bob Tyrell] for examples of portraits that actually look like people.

has anyone been so transfixed in horror by someones tattoo that they have actually followed the person round peering at them just to mke sure it is what you think it is?

not me of course

(disclaimer:i actually like tattoos. but only mine. and dhs)

I have tattoos <pic on profile> am not a tramp

God Jodie Marsh is such a cock isn't she

Does anybody watch Miami Ink? I love it, its fascinating! Idon't have now, nor will i ever, have a tattoo btw

God what is wrong with that woman?! Why on Earth would you get a MJ tattoo and why is she that funny colour?

Another pet hate of tattoos is when someone has one of a famous person as it never looks anything like the person.

eg. Jodie Marsh's Michael Jackson tattoo (sorry DM link)

giantkatestacks, what kind of thing are you looking to have done? There's loads of brilliant artists in London - Evil From The Needle in Camden is fantastic, great staff and premises; Frith Street Tattoo does lovely new school/traditional style; I hear Flamin' Eight are good, also New Wave Tattoo...seriously, the choice is massive

And I know a man who has a big Marijuana leaf on his neck- he wonders why he cant get a job???

I hate seeing women with chubby shoulders with little 'red devils' on. Awful

I saw a few ^lovely' ones t'other day:

Tweetie Pie smkoing a spliff
Mam & Dad Colin (I'm not making that up)
Axle Ross (I hope she meant Axel Rose)

giantkate, he is a vile boak indeed

[slight hijack] cyteen - have you had any done in london - am thinking of another myself and was looking for a recommendation - curiously there isnt a tattoo shop review area on MN

S'alright, Vinny

<sobs quietly>

As someone who loves (and has) good quality tattoos, I agree that the sunshine does seem to bring the worst, most badly-executed and ill-judged ink to the surface. It just proves how many shit tattooists there are out there, and how many idiots people are willing to pay them

LaurieFairyCake tiny tattoos don't show the detail especially well and since ink spreads over time any detail in a really small tattoo tends to get lost. Anil Gupta is someone who specialises in detailed miniatures but I've never really seen the point myself.

VT lol at vile hairy boke maybe it should have been vile hairy boak though

Sorry Reality, didnt mean to offend you, i had never heard them called that until that vile hairy boke off Big Brother said it in a conversation with Noirin the other night (i hate him, i hope he falls into a lawn mower and gets that vile pony tail chopped off) i would never say it myself

Mmm Wilbur which common was this gorgeous betatted man on? [gets stalky hat on - not deerstalky hat mind, much too hot in this weather]

I have some beautiful tattoo's, you horrible lot

they're all in places that you wouldn't be able to see though

Ooh, ooh, I have a tramp stamp too!

<slapper>

<classy>

My DH says its even worse in the US. He has worked a lot with the US military and used to go to hot/sandy places, go to the shared swimming pool and see these attractive fit young women from in their bikinis completely covered in tatts. Put him right off his perving

My mother wants my dd's birth date tattooed on her back inside a sun. Lord above knows why. Actually nothing against tattoos and would quite like one on my foot but I think my mother's having some kind of crisis. She has never liked them at all. Dad thinks they need to up her HRT before she starts on the piercings.

It is nasty. I was at a ball last weekend and there was a lady in a backless evening gown. Looked lovely from the front but when she turned round she had a HUGE tattoo of a lady giving a devil a blow job . Truely vile.

NOT

I have my husbands name across my chest surrounded by haerst and stars. It s quite big but I think its pretty.

i think they are called 'tramp stamps'

I agree VT. I also like tattoos on people's lower backs which you see poking out at the same time as their thong and half their a*se. That's class, right there.

I dont mind tats, i prefer to see them on show that some mans skinny white legs in shorts, with hairy fat belly bulging out of a t-shirt

I can't get over the very obvious badly "self-done" or "done by a mate" tattoos that you see on view.

I recently stood in a queue next to a woman who had the names of about 8 children/grandchildren (?) down her arm. They were very badly done, as if written by different people, no particular type-face etc.

If you are going to have a permanent tattoo at least make it a good quality one FFS.

I bet some people would have that done to their babies if they could.

It brings out hideous bits of flesh, never mind just tatoos, i saw some horrenous arms and legs in Morries at lunch time

I pierced my nose for all of three days to piss my mother off before a family party
It worked very well
But it healed nicely afterwards so was in essence reversible

I have a huge mitsubishi symbol on my arm to forever remind me that in my teens/twenties I was a druggie raver.

And my ex husband's name emblasoned across my arm to forever remind me of him <urgh>

And a crucifix with daisies on my ankle to forever remind me that I was a bit of a twee, gothy teenager.

And other random bits of ink to forever remind me that I was bit of a twat in my youth.

I have often toyed with the idea of a few stars somewhere non-visible but have always come down on the side of common sense

LOL @ the mower

There is a mother at toddler group who has a collection of stars on her shoulder. I actually think it looks nice in everyday life but it would look so wrong if wearing a nice dress.

Goodness, the front of the hospital was littered with all ages of smoking tattoos
It was not good
Felt like getting DD aged 5 to come and see, and learn

Wats,over here quick quick it's a code orange

Do you not like it

oh my GOD wats

that is soooooo hideous.

And it can be balanced out with Mum and Dad on each arm, very holistic indeed.

I saw a nice one the other day - the only nice one I've ever seen mind. It was a butterfly on her foot.

Having said that it was about an inch and a half/2 inches across and I think would look better slightly smaller but for some reason tattoo artists don't seem to do tiny ones.

A tiny, detailed, colourful butterfly on a foot or ankle would look lovely but guaranteed I would ask for that and get some bulbous, giant monstrosity.

lol at wats

ACAB?

awful- we saw a beast of a woman with a tattoo on her bicep of a topless woman with her throat cut and all blood pouring down.

What on earth would posess a woman to have a tattoo like that?? (albeit- she did look like a man)

I think love on one set of knuckles and hate on the other is quite nice. Sort of spiritual.

I have a tattoo, but it's rarely seen. I like it, but don't expect anyone else to.

Today when coming out of my midwife appointment I passed a woman with a tattoo of a cat's head (drawn like you see on china plates etc) with what I assume was it's name underneath in big swirly letters. I think it may have been some sort of memorial. It did make me Which is a huge double standard on my part, I realise.

One of my friends at school had a tattoo doen when she was 16 of the Shamen (as in the groovy rave band) symbol on her left breast. I wonder what she thinks of that now she is 31?

I saw a stunning looking woman the other day, beautifully dressed, immaculately groomed and then looked down and she had a massive tattoo on each of her calves.. looked so out of place and completely ruined her image imo

Get your ya-yas out indeed.

Fast forward 60 years when she's getting a bed bath in hospital - the nurses will be thinking "Oooh, I bet she was a right one in her day"

I sort of want a lotus flower on my shoulder...but maybe not, so many of them do look very very grim

hoorah
you are saved

I used to want one. Now it seems everyone has got one and I dont suppose there is anything left that hasnt been done before. So dont think I actually want one anymore.

i have seen one of those before
How do you explain that to your kids?

ew

I saw a fetching Rolling Stones tongue logo on a boob.

Oh yes, there was the most beautiful man on the Common yesterday but he was tatooed completely all down his buff arms, which really does not do it for me. Such a shame.

YUK
I have never once looked at one and thought " hey that looks nice"

ugh

My friend has an angel over her boobage, vile

yak

I've just seen a young man in 3/4 shorts with magnificent legs ruined by what appeared to be fully covering flames down to ankle level.

" donna" across her neck
those awful ones on mens calves

ewwwww