I’m getting my forearm blacked out tomorrow!

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That’s it really! It’s currently a jumbled mess of a snake/ roses/ leaves but there’s no colour so it’s hard to distinguish what’s going on and I’ve never really liked it so I’m getting the whole arm between elbow and hand blacked out.

never had black out before, has anyone else? Seen it on other people (mostly cool guys in bands tho 😂)

It’s gonna be a 4 hour session 😬

Ironically, it was having a client facing corporate job that deterred me for years. Five years later I work in a plant environment and site manager has a visible neck tattoo. 😂 It's weird how professional environments pay lip service to 'inclusivity/diversity' but are actually pretty intolerant when it comes down to it.

Got my first at 40, Having another on Monday, Never too late if it's what you want!

The late, great Isobel Varley got her first tattoo at the age of 49.

Not suggesting any Mumsnetters get a collage of penises (penii?) on their foreheads, mind you!

in an article about Isobel Varley it states her husband said she was like an addict when it came to tattoos as they were like a drug to her. Is that something to admire?

It's surely better to be obsessive about a hobby than about drugs. Pretty sure it was just intended as an example though.

Don’t think it’s good to be obsessive about anything

I'm obsessive about the gym. I need to be or I'd find excuses not to go.

It looks like you had Dead Sea mud on your arm 🤷🏻‍♀️ but if you like it that's all that matters !

What does admiration have to do with anything?

Isobel was an older woman living her own life, she wasn’t going into schools to promote tattoo collecting to kiddies.

Is there a need, really?

I hate comments like these. The whole say something shitty and rude followed up with a spineless “but if you like it that’s all that matters”.

Yes, if OP likes it, it is all that matters. That should be completely obvious from the get go. No one asked or needed your opinion on what it supposedly looks like. Never once did OP ask “what do you think my tattoo looks like?”

It’s your choice if it’s not to your taste or not. I can guarantee that the clothes you wear and your hair style certainly won’t be to my taste. But there is no need to say such shitty things to someone who is living their life, doing something for them that hurts and affects no one else.

You, like a lot of posters on this thread need to learn how to do better.

Yawn.

How many hours did it take you to come up with that? Or did Google help?

Apart from the blatant skull you can see in the picture

What have you got out of that? Lik me seriously get a fucking life. So sad

Yeah that's the same

God are you still here?! What a sad little life you must lead.

On the underside of her arm - which isn’t going to be on display as often as her forearm which is what I meant. Her forearm is just all black - no work of art there.

Oh right, because all black can't be art. Wonder if anyone told Kazimir Malevich in 1915?
Worked for him, his paintings are in the Tate amongst other galleries and worth millions.

But hey, what do we know @SirChenjins? All black = no work of art. Got it. On to the Tate as I type...

To me, this is on the same level as plastic surgery, not a random what if. Other people don’t agree, that’s fine.

Fucking hell, got to love it when the tattoo topic goes into trending. Same tired bullshit comments every time

Between the chav/criminal/sailor ones, and the people who pretend they are too stupid to understand that different people like different things. It's always a laugh

Bet there's some self harm post lurking about as well

But that wasn't the point you made and that I was responding to.

I would obviously have responded differently had you spoken about the dangers of tattoos (very tiny tbh) as opposed to just saying 'but what if you don't like it when you are 90' which is a ridiculous reason not to do anything

Always thought Tim Commerford from Rage looked hot with his blackwork as well ❤️

Tattoos are pretty much part of modern culture nowadays. It's always the same old middle aged Karens moaning about them lol.

It’s much, much safer. The ink just sits in the middle layer of the skin, whereas cosmetic surgery has all the anaesthetic risk, plus risks associated with the limited life span of any implants used. Obvs surgical wounds are much deeper too, tattoos bleed but it’s more like a graze than a cut.

Tattoos have been around for at least 2500 years so there must be some sort of deep seated human impetus towards pattern making on skin that has nothing to do with the modern world.

It’s fine to not like them (if everybody likes them they wouldn’t be so appealing!)but the comparison to cosmetic surgery doesn’t really stack up.

www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/meet-the-2500-year-old-siberian-ice-maiden-and-her-tattoos