Page 7 | To think some people are going to regret some of these ridiculous tattoos.

riverwalk · 2015-09-13T19:47:14+00:00

What is it with tattoos lately. They're just getting ridiculous and some of them look plain stupid. Rita Ora has some just under her armpits, the part of the arm that gets dangly as you age. Just what is the point, they don't look good at all. I don't think they define you as a person (as lots of them say) at all. How does it. [confused]

VulcanWoman · 14/09/2015 16:21

oow, low blow.

Headofthehive55 · 14/09/2015 16:30

I am sure lots of people regret them, or there wouldn't be laser clinics in existence. However it's up to the individual.

They aren't my thing at all, but I am sure how I dress etc isn't to everyone's taste. I wouldn't be impolite to anyone with one.

What I don't really understand though is that there are so many people having them. It's such an unregulated industry. We all seem to be very keen on having drugs undergo clinical trials etc with regard to safety etc and food dyes are very tightly controlled, but people are prepared to have dyes inside their body without these measures.

One of the diseases that is known to affect people who work with dyes or printing inks is bladder cancer as they absorb the stuff through their skin, so I can't see why anyone would want it. ( but then I worked as I dye chemist so I know what's in that sort of stuff)

NeedsAsockamnesty · 14/09/2015 16:35

When I was a young teenager I had a best friend he was incredibly artistic, good fun,kind, generous, compassionate.
As we got older he became my boyfriend then my husband then the father of my children. At the same time as this was happening he also trained as and became a tattoo artist, lots and lots of his work has been featured in magazines and exhibition shows over the years.

I have about 60% of my body covered in tattoos,many of you may think many of them are shit but I love them. Him and I spent many an evening with him doodling or practising on me and it was unusual for a week to go by without something being added. I can look at different bits and they instantly transport my memories back and I like them even the shit ones.

I have a unfinished one on my back because sadly he became sick and died before he was able to finish it, that was 13 years ago.

I do not regret any of them,it has never hindered my employment and I don't much give a shit about my skin ageing

dotdotdotmustdash · 14/09/2015 17:00

The only tattoo I would ever get would be the Olympic rings, and only if I was selected to be part of the GB team.

I'm 46, overweight and not remotely sporty. I don't think I'll be getting my tattoo!

VulcanWoman · 14/09/2015 17:01

Needs, tear to my eye.

LilacSpunkMonkey · 14/09/2015 17:04

What has paying maintenance got to do with having tats? There is no link between the two, apart from the one you've made up in your head, OP.

Also, straight after my last post yesterday, where I pointed out the sneering and judging on this thread, you agreed and said 'yes, and nasty'. So, you were agreeing with me.

And yet, you've started a thread to basically sneer at people with tats and then made out that there is some link between being covered in them and being a fool who doesn't pay maintenance. Men who don't pay maintenance for their kids are twats of the highest order, whether covered in tats or not.

fuzzywuzzy · 14/09/2015 17:05

Once years ago, I was stood in a queue (OK I admit it was macdonalds) on my lunch break, and there was a really beautiful woman in front of me in one of those handkerchief style tops (told you it was long ago). Her entire back was covered in a tattoo, it was sort of getting smaller as it went down it was the Arabic alphabet, except it didn't contain a the alphabet and it didn't spell anything, I'm not sure if she was an Arab she looked like and English woman to me and I have been curious ever since why she chose to have the alphabet incompletely tattooed down her back.

If you're an MNer please enlighten me, I have been wandering all these years!

LilacSpunkMonkey · 14/09/2015 17:09

Oh, and as for the poster who would 'cry their eyes out' if their child grew up and was covered in tats. Seriously?

If my adult child turned out to be a rapist/domestic/abuser/paedophile I'd cry my eyes out, justifiably so, but over some tats?

Get.a.grip.

MaryPoppinsPenguins · 14/09/2015 17:13

That was me lilac, and I don't need a grip, it's how I feel. If one of my DD's got the level of tattoos (like the woman I referred to where they cover her entire neck and chest) then yes, I would cry because she would've ruined her body with something permanent, and made herself largely unemployable. I can't help it, that's just how I feel.

LilacSpunkMonkey · 14/09/2015 17:23

She would not make herself unemployable by covering her chest and back in tats. How many jobs ask to check your body for tats?

I know lots of people with visible tats who work in fantastic jobs. Many people on this thread have said they have visible tats and work in lots of different areas.

To say you would cry over your adult child making decisions like that over their body is incredibly immature.

I care about the kind of person my children grow up to be, not what they look like.

Stop being so shallow.

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riverwalk · 14/09/2015 17:26

Lilac I don't sneer at anyone. I made a point about how some tattoos might be regretted when they get older. That's not sneering. My point about maintenence is this. There are many who as we have seen on TV would rather pay for a tattoo than put food on the table, or in my my Dds exs case pay maintenence for their keep. This wasn't what my thread was about but it seems to have progressed to that. I don't know why you would take offence. It's not an attack on anyone here, just certain people...

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Murfles · 14/09/2015 17:29

If one of my DD's got the level of tattoos (like the woman I referred to where they cover her entire neck and chest) then yes, I would cry because she would've ruined her body with something permanent, and made herself largely unemployable.

My DD has many beautiful tattoos and they certainly haven't made her unemployable. She's a vet, in a large (and very well known) specialist equine unit. She's often complimented on her body art by owners of her patients. You can't tell an adult what to do for goodness sake.

LilacSpunkMonkey · 14/09/2015 17:30

I haven't seen anyone on the TV that would rather pay for a tat than put food on the table.

Your original OP talks about tats looking 'ridiculous', 'stupid' and 'not good at all'. You've gone on to say that tats don't make you edgy or different, don't define people at all.

And you don't think you're sneering at people?

squoosh · 14/09/2015 17:35

21 year old hipsters who went from nothing to full body neck and face tats in a year will later down the line.

They're the people I can see beating a path to the tattoo removal clinic in the future. These days extreme tattooing has become a mainstream look and there are bound to be loads of people who hopped on the full body tattoo trend without thinking it through.

Easy enough to forget a 90s style dolphin tattoo on your arse, not quite so easy to cover up your neck and arms.

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riverwalk · 14/09/2015 17:36

I haven't seen anyone on the TV that would rather pay for a tat than put food on the table.
Oh right, so it can't have been on then can it. I did see it. There was a couple who were having a baby and due to be evicted, he went out and got a tattoo. Believe me there are many I have known who would do that.
Yes I think some tattoos look ridiculous, as do many. If you want to call that sneering then so be it. Do we have to like everything we see?

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DriverSurpriseMe · 14/09/2015 17:38

If one of my DD's got the level of tattoos (like the woman I referred to where they cover her entire neck and chest) then yes, I would cry because she would've ruined her body with something permanent, and made herself largely unemployable

But the woman in question is a tattoo artist, ergo she hasn't made herself unemployable.

MaryPoppinsPenguins · 14/09/2015 17:39

Lilac, I said neck... Which would make you largely unemployable actually. You'll always know an exception, but try getting a corporate job, a place on a healthcare degree, a place on an oversubscribed PGCE with a huge tattoo circling your neck?? It's not going to happen.

As I said before, it's terribly sad. When I see people with tattoos like this I feel genuine sympathy for them.

LilacSpunkMonkey · 14/09/2015 17:39

No, we don't have to like everything we see, but we also don't have to start threads on MN which are basically looking down on other people's choices about what to do with their own bodies.

I don't know anyone who would pay for a tat before putting food on the table. Maybe you need to stop mixing with lowlife scumbags and get some decent friends?

Murfles · 14/09/2015 17:45

Make you largely unemployable actually. You'll always know an exception, but try getting a corporate job, a place on a healthcare degree, a place on an oversubscribed PGCE with a huge tattoo circling your neck?? It's not going to happen

DD has neck tattoos and full sleeve tattoos. She's anything but unemployable.

MaryPoppinsPenguins · 14/09/2015 17:52

'You'll always know an exception'

That's why I said 'largely' unemployable.

But you know that.

DriverSurpriseMe · 14/09/2015 17:54

What you seem to be missing Mary, is that large neck tattoos aren't particularly mainstream, and aren't sported by people who happen to (or aspire to) work in industries where being heavily tattooed is taboo.

Lots of people actually do put tremendous thought into their tattoos, you see, and will have considered their careers before embarking on them.

There was one bloke on a Channel 4 tattoo programme who was tattooed from face/scalp all the way down to his ankles. He couldn't get a job (but it wasn't just the tattoos - long periods of unemployment and few qualifications didn't help either) and that was pretty dumb of him.

MaryPoppinsPenguins · 14/09/2015 17:56

I don't see how I'm missing that? I didn't say everyone has them, I said they make me sad??

DriverSurpriseMe · 14/09/2015 17:57

But why do they make you sad, if we can assume they haven't made themselves unemployable?

Murfles · 14/09/2015 17:59

Mary. What you said was try getting a corporate job, a place on a healthcare degree, a place on an oversubscribed PGCE with a huge tattoo circling your neck?? It's not going to happen.

It can and does happen. I know a few nurses with neck tattoos who had no problems getting on a course. People can't discriminate against an applicant because of a tattoo.

LilacSpunkMonkey · 14/09/2015 18:00

You need to stop feeling sad for people who neither want nor need your sympathy. It's rather patronising.

As I've already pointed out, I work in a primary school. There are teachers there with visible tats. No one gives a shit because it doesn't stop them being good teachers.

And hopefully they're giving the children the confidence to be themselves and no go through life worrying that people might feel sorry for them if they get tats.