DH said no more tattoos

[ICanSeeTheSun]

My vision is to turn my back into a canvas, I believe tattoo are art, so far I have 4 on my back.

I love them and it is a part of me.

Id really like to know if you had the tattoos before you and dh were together. I find it really odd. Both my bf and I have 3, not particularly big ones, and both havent ruled out any more. Id be happy for him to do so and he would me - its bizarre that a partner would "allow" or "disallow" their oh to do so? And I do know where youre coming from actually, my ex said "no more after that" after my last one. In a kind of joking friendly way but I knew he meant it.
That's why he's an ex that and a whole load of other tosser reasons he's a massive prick

Ah, Carlos Torres may well be skilful, but I'd call some shite. (the one with the two children looking at the Sun? Angel? Teletubby sun/child?)

Also, I thought he was the Brazilian footballer...

...or Jeff Gogue www.gogueart.com/tattoos/tattoos_89766.html

or Philip Leu, or Mike Rubendall, or Marcus Maguire, or Lianne Moule, or Thomas Hooper, or Grimes, or Jo Harrison, or Phil Garcia, or Roxx, or...

we both know I could go on for ages and ages, but I have a feeling gh35 isn't really interested in anything you or I have to say, MrsGargery.

ah, some other people have posted while I was trying to work out how to do links! Hope my post still makes sense, was adding to what MrsJoeGargery was saying.

I'm another professional with tattoos, that are easily covered with elbow length sleeves. I have a degree and everything. Makes not one jot of a difference to my capabilities at work.

As someone with a professional interest in laser safety that has seen the standards in place in some independent clinics, I am more concerned about the cowboys and criminals that make up a significant minority of the tattoo removal (and hair removal/skin treatments) business.

Laser safety standards can be poor, training often inadequate and there is also quite a lot of tax evasion and money laundering going on as well. Obviously this doesn't apply to everyone in the business, but it is very common.

It is your body and it is entirely up to you what you put onto it. He has no right at all to try to tell you to not get tattoos.

If I have understood correctly, you both agree that some cash is split 50/50 and you each have the absolute right to spend your portion however you choose, and that is how it has always worked between you. If that's the case then he has no right to then try to bring money into it.

However. He has been very clear that he finds them massively unattractive. You have the perfect right to choose to cover yourself in tattoos and you have the perfect right to spend money that it has always been agreed is yours to spend as you see fit and he has no right to stop you doing either - but you cannot complain if he does indeed find you physically unattractive as a result. That is his right and he has been very very honest about it.

He may just accept it because he loves you. He may hate them forever and find you less attractive because of them. He may learn to love them as part of you, who knows? But you can never say that he hasn't told you exactly how he feels.

What you choose to do is entirely up to you. I don't believe he has the right to tell you you can't, any more than a partner has the right to dictate a haircut or piercing or anything. They can only say what he's said - I just won't find it attractive. It's still your choice.

I would agree with the safety of the tattoo laser business as there are huge amounts of money to be made on the removal.

But you have to ask yourself, why are these businesses booming? But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out...

At the end of the day, it's personal choice and people make their own decisions. But I am also allowed to have an opinion on whether I like them or not.

I guess it's also a generation thing, where people of my age who had tattoos when they were younger (and were very pro tattoos) have either had them removed or have regretted having them done.

Nice work Mrs G! The mighty Brag List reaches new shores.

Actually gh35, I think you would be surprised how much of the laser business' clientele are people who want to fade older tattoos just enough that they can cover them with something even bigger!

Of course you're allowed your opinion, but you stated it in pretty obnoxious, know-it-all terms and you've got the response you deserved.

Hey, my tattooist is on the Brag List, cool!

Love,

Bears, who is a senior manager with tattoos that have a strong personal meaning and will still love them when she's 70...

I would talk to him some more and in the meantime start saving up and looking around at artists. It took me three years to finally get my back piece and I'm glad I waited that long as my ideas changed a lot over that time.

I'm very heavily tattooed (including my hands) and married to a tattoo artist so luckily he encourages me:)

Can't you just enjoy the ones you have? Why do you need more and more?

I'd like to look like her when I'm 70

The tattooist can draw, my friend is amazing at drawing and loves to do it.

I did have 2 before we met, and 2 after.

It's your body, but it'll rankle with your DP if you go ahead and graffiti your body any further.

You obviously have every right to want more tattoos. Your DH however also has every right to not like them.

And if you're spending family money on them, well that's something you need to talk about.

I would like to point out that not every tattooed person is an idiot showen on bodyshockers. That program shows the "entertaining" side to the tattoo world. However I did love the espisode when a man got a tattoo of his dog and incoperated the ashes. I plan to do this when my beautiful GSD passes.

Dozie How judgemental. I would consider rocking in a chair with DH on our porch, a content life.

Good to know so many people put their partners first rather than themselves.... What, like you? Why is the removal business booming? Because there are still loads of people stupid enough to let anyone tattoo them from home or they go to shit artists. :S There's a removal sort of thing for everything in regards to the way we look so again, you are talking out your arse. Does your wife know you don't love her? Because you certainly don't. My DP has lots of tattoos and a beard and I love that look on men (oh and he is a professional!) but if he decided he wanted to shave it off and get them removed, I'd still stay with him, because I love him because of HIM, not because of the way he looks. You sound like quite a sad person.

Lol at the people to who say they regret there's so "don't do it" well that's just sad for you that you chose a shit tattooist really ain't it?!

This sums it up for me...

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2012-11/14/tony-parsons-on-popularity-of-tattoos-designs-celebrities

"If you want to be an individual," says Ozzy Osbourne, "don't get a tattoo. Every bugger's got one these days."

"Getting a Ferrari symbol on your arse is not like finding a cure for cancer. Getting a butterfly on your nipple is not the same as painting the Sistine Chapel."

"A survey ranked tattoos on a woman as the greatest turn-off for men, just ahead of smoking and bad breath. Women were more tolerant, ranking tattoos on men as only the fourth greatest turn-off. Yet there are some people who like this stuff, just as fake breasts have their ardent fans."

WOW STOP PRESS!! GQ have published this shit, it must be true.

Says Ozzy, who himself is covered in tattoo. Take your own advice, mate.

"A survey ranked tattoos on a woman as the greatest turn-off for men, just ahead of smoking and bad breath. Women were more tolerant, ranking tattoos on men as only the fourth greatest turn-off. Yet there are some people who like this stuff, just as fake breasts have their ardent fans."

What a load of bullshit. Excuse my French.

I'm not sure anyone, anywhere has equated getting a Ferrari symbol on their arse with finding a cure for cancer? What a strange thing to say. Here are some other things that aren't like other things - eating cake, and quantum mechanics. Chartered accounting, and polishing your shoes.