Do nice tattoos exist?

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I'd quite like to get a tattoo but am quite concerned that it could just look shit.

Are there any rules about getting a tattoo so it looks nice, maybe pretty, and minimises the risk of you regretting it?

Of course there are nice tattoos. The majority of people who have tattoos think they are nice.

I have one and planning a few more.

cheap and tacky

beautiful

There are plenty of nice tattoos, plenty of bloody awful tattoos too though. Very important to choose your artist carefully.

I have 7 tattoos. All of mine are nice, well I love them They were all done as a way of remembering something significant that had happened.

The most recent is some cherry blosssoms that my ES had drawn as a tattoo for someone (he hadn't anyone in mind when he designed it) He died in July this yrar and it is the most beautiful tribute to him I could have chosen.

So in answer to your question, yes there are 'nice' tattoos out there.

Sunshine, some of those are beautiful. I keep coming back to the idea of small black birds/ravens at the top of my back and shoulder, there is picture like that on there. Now you've all got me thinking again!

I have two, generally not visible unless I wear certain clothing. One of them I am a little "hmm" about now, but I did have it done at 18 and had very different tastes and did it on a slight whim. If you put a lot of thought into it them it will be the right one for you. I tend to think smaller tattoos in one or two colours can look lovely on women - not that I don't think large tattoos don't look great, I actually wish I had the courage to get something that large.

Still, tattoos are the ultimate Marmite subject, you either love 'em or you hate 'em, no real inbetween.

What I find odd about 'P*y' pictures is the idea that your tastes remain static, fixed at the point of being tattooed. I cannot imagine that you would keep the same preferences in choice of home and home decor, make up styles, clothing choices, food eaten, etc forever so the idea that you will always have the same tastes in bodily adornment seems bizarre.

Tats seem to suggest a person who is the very opposite of a free thinking and developing individual.

No. Never yet seen one that's made me think 'that looks nice.'

Even if the PP commemorates something 'significant', tastes change even if the need to commemorate doesn't.

I'm sorry but over time they always end up looking horrid.....

Funnily enough I have a number of tattoo pics on one of my pinterest boards; none of them are "my" tat - or rather what I will be getting, but they are inspirational to me, and will help when I come to build my design.

I'm quite liking ones like this fairly simple one, and am angling more towards flowers now rather than stars. This is lovely but not sure it's for me.

I know a couple of people who've had some, including one half way through an almond blossom tree over her shoulder, which looks lovely but very brave.

As I said, I see why some people feel they need to mark something significant by marking their body. But let's face it, most PP's are hardly deep and meaningful when you ask about them. And most designs appear pretty generic especially with regard to the colouring; like a badly coloured black and white film.

Kate Moss went to a supposedly amazing tattooist, world famous and hers still looks crap.

mignonette, I think that is a little nasty really. A mother who has lost a child will never wake up and decide they don't want to remember their child, a wife forget her husband or a husband forget his wife.

You forget somebody unless you tattoo yourself? The memories are tattooed indelibly on my heart of those I have lost.

And nothing I said was nasty.....

OP, YES, nice tattoos really do exist, and I have a few, I'm due to have another within a few days.

Again, they still look awful IMO. Sorry, but to many people they do, no matter the sentiment. Just as there are clearly many many Tat lovers out there too...

WAs it on MN that someone linked to the most amazing tattooed penis and scrotum? All green and a complete design. A dragon I think. I am afraid most tattoos look naff to me. The ones I tend to like are the monochrome Maori looking ones.
Small stars sound nice though.

You said that peoples tastes change. True you might love dolphins as a teenager but not be that fussed by them as an adult. But your tastes do not change with regards to loved ones who have passed on.

You could always try going to a tattoo show/ convention?

I said I acknowledged that deeply meaningful commemorative tats exist.

However many are not that.

Memories remain regardless of whether one draws on one's body or not. And tastes in how you commemorate someone can and do change. I'm afraid they do. it is not a disrespect to a loved one to decide that you'd rather have remembered them sans tat.

As an aside re our rituals to mark death, there are frequent requests made to cemetery officials to disinter ashes because the meaning of the place changes, people move or decide they want to make a different memorial. I know because when my grandmother applied to disinter my grandfathers ashes, we spoke to the undertaker who arranged his funeral and she said you'd be surprised just how many people change their minds.

Yet many people would regard interment as an irrevocable decision.

As I said, I see why some people feel they need to mark something significant by marking their body.

I said I acknowledged that deeply meaningful commemorative tats exist.

Read my earlier posts before silly comments about what i may or may not say to some body who has lost a loved one....

My latest tattoo is a memorial one of rmy son, it is also a celebration of his talent as an artist. So even if my tastes do change, that will always remain the same. He is my son and a very talented artist.