to think that women with tattos...

[Gichin]

Look soooooo common, or is my age (47)

My tattoos are p[art of who i am, all have a meaning to me and show what i am and what ive been through. My ds's name, my zodiac sign and my most recent one is 1 i designed for myself and my 2 db's after 1 was killed last year. My next is a memorial to db, a motorbike with wings with a quote from the poem i read at his funeral. I also have several others planned out which will take my total to circa 15. ALL of which have a great meaning to me and several are designs i have come up with myself with my limited artistic ability but i know a good tattooist, who will have no problem drawing them up the way i want them. If it makes me common to express myself then so be it. Oh YABU

They look great on some people.

It's your age. I'm a similar age and don't like them. My daughter has about 4....

Mittz&Petisa, great posts!

to all those who think they look common:
if you found out your friend had a tattoo on her ribs, for example, would you think she was 'common' even though for all that time she was just another person to you?

also 'common', do you seriously use that word in real life? if you're being literal, tattooes arent that common.
if you dont like tattoos, say they are not your taste, dont say everyone who has one is 'common' or that they look vulgar and garish.
i have dyed red hair. i like it, thats my style, but if people dont like it, im sure they express themselves in other ways.
its like people who wear head to toe Burberry, or head to toe Boden. I dont judge them as a person, i judge their extremely bad taste in clothes

But, Britfish people do make 'common' 'snob' 'twee' etc judgements.

I have never used this and am delighted to at last be able to

ahh i know posie, but 'common', i dont know, it grinds with me [and im the first person to cry 'chav!'] because i never really understand whether the person is using it as 'oh, the lower common classes all have tattoos' or 'tattoos are very common'

Mittz i have seen your bum very pretty

Tattoos are not for me - God knows the fashion mistakes I've made in the dim and not so distant past, so choosing something as a teenager or twenty something and still thinking it's going to look good a year later, let alone a decade or more makes no sense to me.

For example, do people with the barbed wire or celtic designs or similar around their upper arms that were all the rage a few years ago honestly think they still look good /original and not at all dated now...?

Some tattoos look good on some people (usually when they're brand new and haven't had time to bleed into the skin which they inevitably do over time, although the owners of tattoos always seem to think that theirs hasn't and won't ever do this ). Some people can carry them off well.

But some tattoos look awful (on men and women), and do make the owner look as if they have questionable judgement and taste. I'm not saying that they do; rather that the tattoo makes it look as if they do. Clearly you can't make any judgements based on all owners of tattoos!

Just my opinion.

I am 66.I have no tatoos but my beautiful dd,a grduate,a teacher,a DoE expedition leader has 2 tiny ones which she got on her gap year.Anyone less common I cannot imagine-your remarks are offensive.
YABVU

personally they are not for me and I do wonder what people (male and female) are thinking when they have them done on places like their breastbones, chest, shoulders and arms. WHen you're 70 I can't imagine it'll be a good look.

tattoos graduate
[sorry]

Some women with tattoos are common.
Some women with tattoos are thick
some women with tattoos are graduates
some women with tattoos are slags
some women with tattoos are lovely kind beautiful girly girls
some women who have tattoos are kind beautiful alternative rockers

having a tattoo has nowt to do with what kind of person someone is

Ginchin, don't be such a twat

Mittz and Petisa...Excellent, insights...thank you!

I have two tattoos that are really meaningful to me. And, I just may be common for all I know. I don't really care what you think, Gichin...you aren't nice!

mine are placed in areas where I don't gain or lose weight...so fingers crossed, they won't look too bad when I'm 70! (Not that I care, really)

I'm with you Gichin , that's my instinctive reaction, but on a conscious level I try never to judge a book by its cover because IME first impressions are usually wrong!

I have 5 tattoos, a large one on my back and shoulder, and 4 other smaller ones, including one on my upper wrist.
I love them and had my first one when I was 17, I am not a goth or some kind of trailer trash, I work in good job as a community mental health worker within the NHS, I wear normal clothes and have a good education, my daughter is well brought up and well behaved, however I do get so many horrid looks from the mums at the school gates aswell as other "yummy mummys" round my way which is admittedly a snobby area, it doesnt bother me but it appears to some people I really am cheap and common.
I am saving up to extend the big tattoo on my back, and it is going to look great!

Aw thanks BritFish and Eve

Is that all you have to say in response to everyone Gichin? I might have been dyslexic but I'm not...?!

DF those are the best places to get a tattoo imo! I'm not a big fan of my arse/tummy, thighs anyway. I hope to have a sense of humour about my body when I'm in my 70s - I think we'll all need it as none of us will look that great, tattoos or not! I'll be going for the v old v mad hippy look!

"For example, do people with the barbed wire or celtic designs or similar around their upper arms that were all the rage a few years ago honestly think they still look good /original and not at all dated now...?"

I have to say I do not understand getting tattoos as they are "in fashion", but tattoos with a meaning behind them make perfect sense to me. Even if they eventually don't look so good, the memory is still there.

Me too, Petisa!!!

I love old-fashioned tattoos on older arms with ink that has bled and faded. It has character. And you can get tattoos covered up or retouched v successfully these days - colours are very bright and long lasting now and are getting better all the time.

you meet lots of people at tattoo conventions who are in their sixties and seventies and have loads of tattoos. These people are often really fun and interesting and full of life, and that shows in their eyes. They are certainly not the old bags who hit you with their shopping trolleys on the bus!

Eve!

Koloki - I agree with that, and do think that tattoos that have personal meaning behind them make much more sense, since it's going to be on you forever.

I still wouldn't trust myself to get something that would stand the test of time, though. And still look good and make me look good.

If I was ever to get a tattoo it would probably be very small, hidden and some sort of art deco design or motif, since that has a great deal of personal meaning to me - so hardly offensive - but I still can't grasp putting something permanent on my body and still thinking it looks good years and years later.