Would tattoos put you off a guy?

[HelenInHeels]

Just this, really, and why or why not?

Yes. Don't find them attractive. Also think they are a huge waste of money. I empathise with those who get little ones to remind them of loved ones but the whole sleeve thing eugh.

Tattoos would definitely put me off anyone.

Hmmmm, two wrist tattoos and a hand tattoo… never been unemployed in my life. It works both ways you know, I wouldn’t want to work for a company that - despite it not being illegal to discriminate on that basis - thought that my ability to do a job depended on a physical feature.

They're just run of the mill now. I do wonder what type of person wants to sit/lay there for hours whilst it's being done though.

My pet hate is those big things in ear lobes, makes me feel a bit queezy.

Depends where they are- I don't like neck, calf or hand tattoo. Can't explain why!

Yes.

One day the trend will revert to no tattoos.

There's some really nasty comments on here. I have a friend who was in a car accident and left with scarring down her right side arm and body. She hated it for years, traid things like scar creams and laser and nothing reduced them. She never wore shirt sleeves until she eventually got tattoos down her arm which hides them very well. She seems much more confident and I'm glad for her. I hate the thought if her being called scrotey, common or chavy because she did something that improved her confidence so much. Of course the judgment will exist because she doesn't explain to every single person she meets that it covers scars, that would defeat the purpose of having them.

Depends. A tattoo on his arm no problem. Facial, neck or leg tattoos - no definitely not

Well done professional 'non-generic looking' tats, usually no. But I don't care for 'portraiture' tats, even if well done.

Offensive (sexual, racist, etc) tats, tats that are really shit looking, facial tats, yes. Wouldn't touch someone like that with a barge pole. Thankful for them though, because at least you know they're idiots before you even speak to them.

Nothing more manly than a man covered in tattoos. Shows he can handle pain and can be very attractive especially if he has the names of his children that he doesn't see too.

Typically sported by a gentleman who likes seven pints a night and then gets rowdy ( sometimes violent but it's never their fault).

A loveable rogue, a cheeky chap. You know the type. 40+ and still into Hardcore in a baseball cap.

Lovely.

I think Love Island tatts are pocket watches, lions and roses.

Isn’t it so funny how whenever a thread about tattoos pops up, the tattoo haters fall over themselves to say how ‘tacky’ and ‘chavvy’ they think tattooed people are, but you never hear any of us with tattoos ridiculing people who don’t have or like them?

someone upthread did say that 'Empty skin is boring'

You do know your comment makes you about as attractive as the person you describe? Amazed you actually think your comment makes you a better person.

Not only that you use the word chav as a description for anything on any other friend and the same people will absolutely berate you for using such abhorrent language.

Happened to me when I said Ugg boots, lip filler and crushed velvet was more chavvy as opposed to the poster who had listed those things as indication of being wealthy and higher class.

Apart from the ‘sticks up their bums’ comment up-thread, you mean?

But other people won’t want to ‘overlook’ tattoos, just as they won’t want to overlook aspects of physical appearance, education levels, job, pastimes etc. I wouldn’t overlook someone being unable to communicate well in writing — if you don’t punctuate your texts properly, use text speak or emojis, and aren’t extremely articulate, you’re not for me, regardless of whether everyone else on the planet thinks you’re fabulous. I don’t have strong feelings about tattoos in principle, but faced with an actual tattoo that says MAM or random Chinese characters that the wearer thinks mean ‘Strength and Honour’ but which actually mean ‘Horse Trouser Outlet’, or a life-size Corgi on the torso, nope.

I'm really interested in the frequent replies that people like/ love tattoos but not on the face. Why is it common to like tattoos but "draw the line" (ahem) at the face?

One of my exes decided to get an upper arm Lord of the Rings writing on it, it covered the length of the upper arm. He regretted it afterwards and admitted to me he’d done it as everyone else had or was getting tattoos done! Twat!

A few men I know who are 60 or early 60s don’t have tattoos, one is working class other two are upper class. Two exes in their early 50s don’t have tattoos.

I’m turned off them to be honest. Just not visually pleasing to me.

Feel free to tell me I look really bad without tattoos. And what I really need is a scribble of Marilyn Monroe/my dog/a crap rose. I’d disagree.

Ooh I love a tattooed man! I'm weirdly attracted to neck tattoos too although DH only has sleeves and a leg one.

But that's pretty much akin to saying you can be as verbally abusive and degrading as you like to people with tattoos then get offended when they retaliate?

People can just say "no, i don't like them" and that would be it. What's with the urge to then add name calling and nastiness to it?

I have them, I don't care if you like them and if you prefer to be vocal about how chavvy, rough, uneducated, thick and whatever else derogatory term you want to label me, all it does is highlight your nasty side and means it would save me the time of having to get to know you if we ever met in real life.

I'm not sure why the derogatory name calling towards people with tattoos males you think you're a better person? Weird.

I used to house share with a bloke who was in the process of stretching his ears out with ever bigger ones. When he took them out, and his flaccid earlobes would be draped down his neck like old elastic bands, it used to make me feel a bit (massively) limp and lightheaded, and I'm not particularly squeamish...
He was a bike mechanic and had nearly taken his own earlobe off by getting it caught on a spinning wheel he was fixing
Got worse when he got a 'neck bolt', a fat metal double-ended arrow thing going right through a big flap of skin, where his neck meets his back. It looked so raw and kept catching on his collars. Eventually it got really badly infected and had to go, leaving a big lump of scar tissue

Not phased about tattoos OP, except on face I think, it's up to the owner of that body what they want to do with it.
Also depends what the tattoos are... I think my nerves would be jangling a bit if it there was a big misspelt word or a 'Spanish Jesus fresco' (Ecce Homo?) type picture to look at for the next 30 years...

But I don’t think that, so why would I say it?

Right, so people can just be as rude and insulting as they please with absolutely no redress?

That comment was posted in response to someone being bloody rude, as you know because you read it. If there’d been no rudeness to respond to in the first place, it would never have been posted, would it?