Tattoo turn off?

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Long time no type?!

Would someone’s tattoos change your attraction to them?

Should what you perceive to be ‘bad’ or ‘tacky’ tattoo’s be a deal breaker?

Went on a first date, got on really well. Went on a second date, got on really well but noticed some tattoo’s which I find a bit tacky and well…shit.

Does this bother people? I know it’s each to their own but on the whole, how much would it bother you if you were dating someone with crap tattoos😂

@Pigeoning my son has a lion and a clock.
I have tattoos and I don't talk about them all the time.

The only way a tattoo would turn me off someone if it was racist, homophobic.
Anything else I wouldn't get to her up about.

Depends on how much you like him. I'm not keen but my husband is quite heavily tattooed (and doesn't talk about them unless it comes up in conversation or somebody asks). He can cover them all up if he wants and regularly does. So anytime he's wearing a long sleeved top and trousers (most of the year) you wouldn't know he has any. I think I would find them really unattractive if they were very tacky ones like 'mum' or his own name or a birthday, but mostly because I'd be making judgements about whether we'd be on the same wavelength and have similar interests and tastes. It'd tell me that we're very different and probably incompatible.

People who know that he is quite heavily tattooed seem to assume that I must be some kind of 'rock chick' (I cringed so much typing that out but grown adults have said those words out loud to me in the past) and we laugh a lot. It's more realistic to say that I'm married to him despite the tattoos than them being something which attracted me to him.

Hate tattoos….they always look dirty to me.

Yes true but from that point on, I probably wouldn't find them as attractive. Same as people with bad teeth. I'm attracted to what I'm attracted to. What can you do?

Tattoos aren’t my thing, no. I wouldn’t actively choose someone with them and am married to a man with none. However, if I were dating, got to know and really like someone and then discovered a discreet tattoo, it probably wouldn’t put me off unless it was offensive in nature.

That is one gross tat.

I don’t like them and don’t have any so it would probably put me off

If they weren’t visible outside of clothes and if they admitted they were a bit crap (ie funny thing from youth rather than diehard tattoo fan I wouldn’t mind. But also depends where they’re from - I think aussies have higher levels of tattoos vs UK.

I quite like tattoos and the right tattoo on the right man can look very sexy. Sometimes they're pure art.

Obviously I would draw the line at anything racist or homophobic. But I think if someone was racist or homophobic enough to get a racist or homophobic tattoo, it would be obvious from their personality and long before the point that I ever saw the tattoo!

Crap tattoos... well it's a judgement call isn't it. It wouldn't change how I felt about someone if I already liked them. I'd just think to myself, oh that's a slightly crap tattoo. I wouldn't say anything to them about it. And I would probably stop seeing it after a while. It would be a 'his body, his choice' kind of situation.

Just find the whole tattoo thing so dated, even Judy Dench has a tattoo. Worst of all is people calling them their bloody 'art work' so wouldn't date someone tattooed
Have a friend just had a sleeve tat it just looks so dark you cant even make out what its supposed to be. Just why? Its refreshing to see people with 'clean skin'

I like tattoos. Most of my friends are in their 50s so many of them are looking a bit faded now but that wouldn't bother me.

I did briefly date a man who had a badly inked baked lady on his torso - side of his ribs. Really put me off. It was such a naff tattoo and looked like it had been drawn on by a 6 year old.

One of my friends is a tattoo artist and her work is phenomenal but she's an artist first and foremost rather than just having decided she wanted to do tattoos.

I'm so used to seeing them that my boyfriend has none and it looks a bit weird to me.

Naked not baked!

The situation has never arisen so I don't really know if I would be turned off or not!
I am just not the sort of person that people with tattoos would be attracted to! Ok, that sounds like terrible stereotyping - but it's just my experience.
And I think our lifestyles wouldn't match - I think I'm explaining myself really badly here. I don't think there's anything wrong with people having tattoos if they want them. But someone who has a whole sleeve tattoo or an eagle across their back is really not going to go for a boring "square" looking person like me. They want someone cooler....

Ye gods, that is ugly.
I always wonder - why on your back?
You never see it.
I was behind a young woman with a low backed dress on, and she had a poem written on her back. Why? Who's going to read that? Just people behind her in a queue?

I’m not a fan generally but I suppose a small one from years ago somewhere discreet wouldn’t be as bad as sleeves etc. My ex has got loads since we divorced (mid 40s) and they look ridiculous and are really shite, a 5 year old could have done better with a felt tip. No idea how he got someone else to marry him! 😳😂

I don’t talk about my dietary preferences often, and don’t find that others talk to me about theirs.

Do you find that people talk to you about their dietary preferences often then? If so, maybe your unoriginal ‘jokes’ are an indicator of the quality of conversation you have to offer generally. And they end up a bit bored with you and stuck for something to say?

My boyfriend has tattoos all over his arms and legs and a big one across his back. Our shared hobbies are puzzles, reading, visiting art galleries and nice walks in the country. I'm as square as they get and he seems to like me😂

I don't really like his tattoos because of how they look but I like them because they are part of him iyswim. He does have a tattoo of his dc's date of birth but that was a commemorative thing he done after the dc died, so I think it's quite sweet. I think I would have to draw the line at cheesy quotes though!

I don't really care unless they're actually offensive. Do like a nice arm tattoo though!

Crap tattoos wouldn't be a dealbreaker at all to me! It just depends how the tattoos work with the rest of their personality etc.

My last ex had some crap tattoos, and it just made her seem a bit tacky 😂which to be honest, I liked, because she was intimidatingly beautiful and this kind of knocked her off the pedestal.

Another ex had a crappy star tattoo on the back of her neck, and to be honest, it just made her seem stupid, but I already thought she was a bit lacking in intelligence. So in that case, it negatively impacted my opinion of her, but it wasn't a dealbreaker.

Basically I would just look at it like anything else - one thing in a bigger picture of things, and then see if I like that bigger picture.

Some of these responses are 👌hilarious.
theyre just shit outdated tattoo’s on the arm. Nothing offensive but also the exact reason I never followed the trend in my younger years!

Other than that he’s lovely and I’d like to see him again. Very easy to chat to and a good laugh. We seem to click nicely.
If it were to go further I think I would have to say something though 😂 which makes me feel like a shitty person 👀

Perfect way to look at it, thanks.
So far he’s restored my faith in OLD and have plans to meet again. Just maybe be a long summer in a jumper for him 😅

I came on here thinking of compasses and pocket watches on sleeves - I see others got in first! I don’t think I’d be as bothered if they were a long-ago mistake (I have some of those myself), but I’d take a new compass-type tat or one he thought was ver original as a sign we might not be compatible. It’s the mix of having something so clearly in your face as a sleeve and then it being so utterly predictable and overdone. If you want to make a statement, be original. Do something meaningful.

I was sort of seeing a bloke with a bad Bart Simpson tattoo on his bicep years ago. I can confirm that it was a turn-off.

I wouldn't care either way. I have three myself so it would also be rather hypocritical if it did bother me.

Someone's tattoos are a very minor point for me in deciding if I want a relationship with someone or not (unless they are offensive in some way). If someone rejected me based on the tattoos I have, I would think that our values aren't aligned, and so the relationship would be a non-starter anyway.

Tattoos? Yes.

Piercings? Noooooo.

Thanks for clarifying. I was trying to decide if she was tanned in a bikini - baked in the sun.. Or baked in a pie 😂