To be getting increasingly irritated by tattoos?

[tangofan]

I apologise in advance if I offend anyone with tattoos....Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-tattoo and I believe anyone who wants one should go right ahead but on the other hand there seems to have recently been a HUGE increase in the (imo) rather tackier end of the tattoo styles: kids' names and/or dates, side-of-the-wrist patterns (a la Cheryl Cole), three 3 black stars on the back of the neck,etc,etc...

I saw a woman the other day in fairly good area of a city with - I kid you not - one child's name and what I presume to be their respective dates of birth on her boobs - one name/date per boob right above the bra cup level!
On holiday recently the pool/beach/sunlounger areas were awash with names/dates of birth,etc on display everywhere and literally every 2nd or 3rd parent in the playground is sporting one and/or one of the aforementioned examples above and I cant help but feel they are becoming common and/or tacky ...(trying to avoid using the chav word)

I'd prefer a tattoo of Coffin to Colin. At least you could pretend you were all dark and gothic as opposed to being in love with the deputy manager of the local garden centre.

Yea I didn't wanna take the chance, at least I could do that, some people pick languages that they cannot check before hand.

Even tho I did check I still had visions of it meaning wardrobe or something like that. Lol

I think I'd never get another language unless I spoke and understood it fluently as I'd end up with "assbadger" or something!

OP YANBU.

Very few tattoos look good. Most are just incredibly tacky, or ill-placed, or plain ugly.

You ask the staff of one takeaway to write it down for you, then you toddle along to a different takeaway and ask them what it says.
This is how I learned to tell someone to "fuck off dickhead" in Greek

I agree with the OP in that its a shame that the fashion isn't for proper artistic tattoos, I love beautiful creative tattoos but they are in the minority, most are names or stars o wrists - whats the point? not different and not beautiful to look at!

My mum had a treasured necklace with a chinese symbol that she told everyone was her star sign, it had been given to her by someone special and she thought it was chosen specifically for her because it was her star sign so about her personality etc
Then after wearing and treasuring it for, oo, 30 years! she made a chinese friend who told her it meant something very dull and not at all personal
(she really should have guessed, if it was a chinese symbol for a horoscope it probably wouldn't be for a WESTERN star sign eh? if anything it would have been a chinese horoscope?)
good thing she didn't get it tattooed eh!

My tattoos cover up some of my vitiligo disfigurement.

My condition has made me suicidal at times and I couldnt bear to look at my skin. Now I smile when I look at my tattoos as ive now been able to accept what I have.

Having tattoos is a very personal thing for me. We dont all have them to be 'out there and wild' or attention seeking

i have about 50% of my body done but weirdly i dont even have pierced ears,
no names everything i have is freehandnd was compleatly out of my tattooests head.i personally wouldnt choose to have names dates stars butterflys or anything i personally concider to be pointless or tiny on me because i dont like then on me. i also wouldnt have anything on my boobs or tummy.
but its bugger all to do with me what anybody else has.

many moons ago i did a lot of wedding modeling i was actively sought out because of my back piece.

and i dont think i would judge anybody for having them i may judge their tattooests skills but certainly not them

I think some tattoos can be very beautiful but do hate most of them. If someone wants a tattoo, they should go to a really great, well known tattoo parlour. Good tattoo artists are not cheap. They will never tattoo anyone who is underage - it isn't worth losing the license for.

For a while I dated someone who thought I was quite strange for not having one. We lived in Brighton and I think I was the only person he knew who didn't have one.

Some tattoos are beautiful...some are not. People can do what they want with their own bodies though.

For the record, about people on benefits etc, sometimes they may have a tattoo artist friend. I know someone who does them for friends for material costs and that's it.

what.the.fuck.

I type an idle thought on MN whilst bored, leave for the day, do a couple of school/nursery runs, get busy for few hours with tea,etc, finally get the kids to bed, remember my post, log on to see if there's any replies - and find 8 feckin pages!?!?!

Cant possibly comment on so many other comments but having - finally - read them all I would agree with the ones who say that there are some genuinely beautiful tattoos out there(I personally love the one Lady Gag has on the side of her lower back - its a rose I think)however my point was (or perhaps was supposed to be)that they are so commonplace now and so many of the same supposedly "meaningful" ones that they have been rendered cliched and tacky to the point that yes, it does annoy me. Perhaps wrongly, but I can accept that - I asked the question after all. But people need to accept that people will judge on what they see, regardless if it's seeing something that's for the owners own "meaning" and no-one else's. To those who get a bit "high horsey" at the judgy thing - people judge,like it or not it's human nature, get over it(and the fact that you're judging someone for judging...hmm, bit ironic, no?)
That said, if you don't give a fuck about what others think of your tattoo then fair play I suppose.

Oh and the links - LOL (that's right, I said it)

to me OP its sort of like.. being irritated by Next wall "art" being in every other home you visit. It's of course people's choice, they are the ones living with it, but YANBU to be bored and a bit irritated by looking at it all the time in places where real interesting varied art could be?

I'm covered in the things and still think there are some truly fugly trends going on right now. There is a couple I see in a local town who I call the bad face tattoo family in my head. Not just tasteless designs but poorly executed.the woman's one woyld look OK on someone beautiful with razor cheekbones and an edgy look but were talking about frumpy plump young mum. they're trying to be such badasses in a small rural market town but are clearly very conventional people with very conventional lives.

RichTeas this may answer your Q about white tattoos on darker skin

I have a black cat on the underside of my wrist. It's my only tattoo and I love it... And not many people have cats on their wrists

WorraLiberty

Pmsl. Is that too rude to be qotw?

I don't have a tattoo; got put off when a girl at the gym spent £100s & lots of time getting a tattoo removed that she decided she didn't like anymore.
Also a mate who was a goth in her 20s but not in her 30s is stuck with 2 half-armfuls of goth tattoos & can't afford to get them removed...

Some tattoos look ok, some dont', also depends on the individual with the tattoo - personal choice IMO.

But - at work, a woman age mid 60s asked for a bedpan, pulled back the sheets & i was confronted with - a large tattoo on her pubic area... erk..

Just looked up images of the white tattoos: they look like embossing, like they've been done with a compass or something.

Tango, actually no, not all people judge others.

Maybe you should try it.

YABU for letting other peoples tattoos annoy you.

I did notice when we had those few days of summer a while back that 90% of people wearing short sleeves seem to have tattoos nowadays, and most of those had been really badly done.

The only reason I don't have a tattoo is I can never think of a design I like for more than a week - except for using Chinese or some other characters to do "Yes I do know what this says", only I don't so I can't!
But if I ever do want one at least a mate of mine is an amazing tattoo artist so I can get it done well.

I just saw a man with a cartoon wanted poster of a cartoon dog tatooed on his calf, it was about 6 inches by four. He was nearly 60. GRIM

People actually part with real cash to do this stuff.

I put the people who take part in the tattoo trend, the same sort of people who like pugs, beards, gin and anything else that they feel the need to follow. Essentially sheep.
The only people who used to have tattoos were those who enjoyed metal music and those who worked in manufacturing.
The tattoo set are usually those working in admin jobs. Lot of the guys are the ones who bulk up at the gym on protein shakes.
Most are found in South Wales, north West England and Essex. And some other 'townie' areas.
You're highly unlikely to see young doctors, lawyers etc with full sleeve tattoos.

ZOMBIEEEEE.............

Just saying before someone else does
Although no idea why all the angst about zombies on here.