Your opinion on tattoos
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Well, it really depends on the kind of tattoo, the size and the location. Not too long ago, their was a man on television, and he was stopping with his family to buy something to eat. The camera was at a distance, so you could see his entire body. When he turned to the counter, his bare calfs (he was wearing shorts) revealed a tattoo that said: ''Fuck You''. Now, in the first place I find something like this extremely vulgair, and probably not thought out very well. I mean, imagine it 10 years from now: ''Fc Yu''. But something like this:
sure, I don't hate it, but I wouldn't miss it if it wasn't there.
sure, I don't hate it, but I wouldn't miss it if it wasn't there.
I have never been bothered either way by tattoos, I personally dont have one but have not ruled out getting one if I felt it would be meaningful to me in some way.
Just getting one because it looks nice always seemed a bit misguided and shallow to me because at the end of the day it is just a permanent picture on you once everyone has seen it once they arent going to care after so if it has nothing beyond superficial value to yourself then it is pretty pointless.
As for it damaging youre job prospects it is unfortunately true in some respects but tbh if I really wanted one I would not let this stop me if I was having trouble deciding because of this it just shows I am undecided on what I want.
Just getting one because it looks nice always seemed a bit misguided and shallow to me because at the end of the day it is just a permanent picture on you once everyone has seen it once they arent going to care after so if it has nothing beyond superficial value to yourself then it is pretty pointless.
As for it damaging youre job prospects it is unfortunately true in some respects but tbh if I really wanted one I would not let this stop me if I was having trouble deciding because of this it just shows I am undecided on what I want.
I have two.
STILL ALIVE (with a red heart outline) on my right wrist (yes it's a Portal reference and a personal reminder) and a slightly modded version of the tattoo Jecht (FFX) has on his chest (on my left inner forearm). I work in hospitality and I've never once had a complaint about my tattoos (or my facial piercings of which I have six). To me it all comes down to how you act. If you have tattoos and you act like a douche people are going to associate tattoos with douches. I go out of my way to be polite and kind to people i talk to (people I serve) to try to show them that just because I have tattoos and piercings doesn't mean I'm one of those stupid punk kids who has no manners and is disrespectful. I am next getting a quote from Doctor Who between my shoulder blades.
STILL ALIVE (with a red heart outline) on my right wrist (yes it's a Portal reference and a personal reminder) and a slightly modded version of the tattoo Jecht (FFX) has on his chest (on my left inner forearm). I work in hospitality and I've never once had a complaint about my tattoos (or my facial piercings of which I have six). To me it all comes down to how you act. If you have tattoos and you act like a douche people are going to associate tattoos with douches. I go out of my way to be polite and kind to people i talk to (people I serve) to try to show them that just because I have tattoos and piercings doesn't mean I'm one of those stupid punk kids who has no manners and is disrespectful. I am next getting a quote from Doctor Who between my shoulder blades.
I spent the better part of my life learning to draw. When I turned 30, I decided to draw a tattoo for myself and get it done. Other than that I don't have much of a stance on them.
I've drawn several tattoos for other people and they've all seemed pleased with my end of the work. Can't speak to whether any of them regret the tat or not, but I think it's foolish to spend much time regretting anything. The point of a tattoo is to capture the moment. Every time you see it, it will remind you of who you were at that time in your life. Even if you're old and saggy and the tat looks like crap. It can still be an important part of your identity.
Just please, to the girls/women who might be here, don't get a boob tat.
I've drawn several tattoos for other people and they've all seemed pleased with my end of the work. Can't speak to whether any of them regret the tat or not, but I think it's foolish to spend much time regretting anything. The point of a tattoo is to capture the moment. Every time you see it, it will remind you of who you were at that time in your life. Even if you're old and saggy and the tat looks like crap. It can still be an important part of your identity.
Just please, to the girls/women who might be here, don't get a boob tat.
Dang! Ninja'd before I even started to post. But, yeah. It all depends on where you get it and what the meaning is behind it. If you get Bugs Bunny tattooed on you arm because you thought it would be funny, then it is a really stupid idea. If you got the Bugs Bunny tattoo because it reminds you of your dead grandfather, that is a different story.Aris Khandr said:
In general, they're not a big deal. Unless you're in a work place setting, where having a tattoo that is not covered by business attire sends a generally bad message. In truth, I tend to look at them the opposite way you do. To adults, they're generally unremarkable unless they're a distraction. Whereas, if you need validation of your adulthood, you aren't an adult yet.
I don't have any and won't be getting them either, but I can see the appeal. I think they look good when selected carefully and done well, but often there are too many bad ones floating around and give tattoos a bad name.
I love 'em. Rather, I love mine. I've never had a moment of regret about any of them, with around 20 hours, total, of work done (i.e. of actual time spent with the needle in my skin). I have very visible tattoos, in that if I'm wearing a t-shirt it's virtually impossible not to see them. The thing is, the world is becoming more and more open to the idea of tattoos as socially acceptable. There aren't a lot of people you'll ever see who cringe at the site of tattoos, though people still seem to hold some archaic belief that if you get one you'll automatically exempt yourself from ever getting a job. My mentor has full sleeves, a full chest piece and a full back piece, has been a teacher for, like 15 years, and has a wife and 2 kids. There is nothing wrong with getting tattoos, in theory.
On the other hand, I do have a lot of problems with what some people choose to get. There are 3 main types of people who get tattoos that I fundamentally believe should not be getting tattoos. At least of what they're getting. Firstly there are people who want a tattoo cliche: that is to say someone who has no conception of tattoos as any kind of expression of oneself an get: asian characters, tribal designs, skulls, armbands, chinese dragons or butterflies. These have a tendency to be people who like the idea of the tattoos as they were viewed ten to twenty years ago, and seem to still have the conception of a tattoo as an expression that one is somehow a badass. Secondly there is the person who just wants a tattoo with no real idea of what they want: have you ever heard, or perhaps asked yourself "I want a tattoo, but I don't know what to get?". This is a sign that you shouldn't get a tattoo... yet. My personal process for deciding on tattoos is extensive, and takes upwards of year. I have to come across an image which provides me with enough of a response to feel that I want that image tattooed. Then I have consider the tattoo for the next year to 4 years before I'll actually start saving to get it done. In the case of someone who doesn't know, they begin seeking out images to get done, which often leads to settling on something they aren't actually going to be all that happy with. Thirdly and lastly, the ironic tattoo: it's really easy pickings these days to take a jab at hipsters. They're everywhere and they function as a really easy target for all of everyone's hate about youth culture, in general. Frankly, I know a lot of hipsters and I've been called one myself, and they can be very nice people. On the other hand, I do have a problem with the ironic tattoo. Getting a tattoo that is, in actual fact, a joke about something isn't clever. It's something that will get old to the tattoo's bearer extremely fast and cease to be a relevant entity even faster. I've seen people get things from rage faces to my little pony characters, to Neil Patrick Harris' face, and few to none of those things will continue to be relevant to that person in the forseeable future.
I am kind of a douche about these things, though, so please forgive my partisan opinions on the matter.
On the other hand, I do have a lot of problems with what some people choose to get. There are 3 main types of people who get tattoos that I fundamentally believe should not be getting tattoos. At least of what they're getting. Firstly there are people who want a tattoo cliche: that is to say someone who has no conception of tattoos as any kind of expression of oneself an get: asian characters, tribal designs, skulls, armbands, chinese dragons or butterflies. These have a tendency to be people who like the idea of the tattoos as they were viewed ten to twenty years ago, and seem to still have the conception of a tattoo as an expression that one is somehow a badass. Secondly there is the person who just wants a tattoo with no real idea of what they want: have you ever heard, or perhaps asked yourself "I want a tattoo, but I don't know what to get?". This is a sign that you shouldn't get a tattoo... yet. My personal process for deciding on tattoos is extensive, and takes upwards of year. I have to come across an image which provides me with enough of a response to feel that I want that image tattooed. Then I have consider the tattoo for the next year to 4 years before I'll actually start saving to get it done. In the case of someone who doesn't know, they begin seeking out images to get done, which often leads to settling on something they aren't actually going to be all that happy with. Thirdly and lastly, the ironic tattoo: it's really easy pickings these days to take a jab at hipsters. They're everywhere and they function as a really easy target for all of everyone's hate about youth culture, in general. Frankly, I know a lot of hipsters and I've been called one myself, and they can be very nice people. On the other hand, I do have a problem with the ironic tattoo. Getting a tattoo that is, in actual fact, a joke about something isn't clever. It's something that will get old to the tattoo's bearer extremely fast and cease to be a relevant entity even faster. I've seen people get things from rage faces to my little pony characters, to Neil Patrick Harris' face, and few to none of those things will continue to be relevant to that person in the forseeable future.
I am kind of a douche about these things, though, so please forgive my partisan opinions on the matter.
That guys lives in Montreal. I've met him. He's a character, that one. He could be perfectly nice, but I'm not keen on talking to him because his face is a skull/i].dex-dex said:I laughed very hard at your photo. very funny and pretty accurate.
my only question is that the grey area on the rest of the guy, does that mean they can be there and won't make a statement?
I am all for tattoos but with anything too many is not a good thing.
such as this is too much in my opinion
I will admit that the guy in the photo that looks pretty cool
Tattoos are permanent, so I feel they require alot of thought from the person getting them. This doesn't seem to happen too often.
Come with me, we're hopping in the Wayback machine (bonus points if you get that.)
There's you, 10yrs old. See how cute you are? Look at all the stuff you like and think are awesome...Pokemon, cartoons, boogers..like that stuff now? There's little Suzy, you like her, right? No, girls are icky and have cooties??
People change. What you like and think is cool now may not always be the case. Love the people that get their boyfriend/girlfriends name tattooed, only to cover it up later when they break up. Worse are the people that don't even give their "inspirational" message tattoos a
once over, and get this mispelled, or get the quote wrong.
Now if you have given it alot of thought, and it means something to you, then congrats, you made an adult decision they way you are supposed to! If you got it on a dare, drunk, or because it looks badass ( I'm looking at you here, tribal band and chinese character tattoos!!) then congrats! You just learned a life lesson the hard way.
As far as getting a tattoo myself...the only one I would get would be rudolph on my shoulder. People have said this is stupid, but it has a deep meaning to me. (Hence my screen name.)
Come with me, we're hopping in the Wayback machine (bonus points if you get that.)
There's you, 10yrs old. See how cute you are? Look at all the stuff you like and think are awesome...Pokemon, cartoons, boogers..like that stuff now? There's little Suzy, you like her, right? No, girls are icky and have cooties??
People change. What you like and think is cool now may not always be the case. Love the people that get their boyfriend/girlfriends name tattooed, only to cover it up later when they break up. Worse are the people that don't even give their "inspirational" message tattoos a
once over, and get this mispelled, or get the quote wrong.
Now if you have given it alot of thought, and it means something to you, then congrats, you made an adult decision they way you are supposed to! If you got it on a dare, drunk, or because it looks badass ( I'm looking at you here, tribal band and chinese character tattoos!!) then congrats! You just learned a life lesson the hard way.
As far as getting a tattoo myself...the only one I would get would be rudolph on my shoulder. People have said this is stupid, but it has a deep meaning to me. (Hence my screen name.)
I have three tattoos (in the green zone, the other green - turquoise perhaps? - zone and orange zone) and I have never regretted any of them.
i love tattoos, but only if they're well done,from an artistic point of view. for me personally if it isn't a piece of art or has strong meaning to the person, it's pointless. examples would be getting your own name, stars or plain tribal designs for the sake of saying 'look, i have a tattoo'. stars are so common right now that it irritates me when i see someone who would otherwise have none.
i have one and it has personal meaning, but i believe people these days don't appreciate that they are a permanent body modifaction. you can remove piercings, clothing and makeup, and hair dye washes out eventually, but it's a surgical procedure to get rid of a tattoo, and from that point getting a tattoo in the first place is surgical as well.
I want more tattoos, but i have to be 110% sure that i am happy to have *whatever design* on my body for the rest of my life with no regret. i'm glad you brought this topic up, it's a very open subject that everyone has their view on.
i have one and it has personal meaning, but i believe people these days don't appreciate that they are a permanent body modifaction. you can remove piercings, clothing and makeup, and hair dye washes out eventually, but it's a surgical procedure to get rid of a tattoo, and from that point getting a tattoo in the first place is surgical as well.
I want more tattoos, but i have to be 110% sure that i am happy to have *whatever design* on my body for the rest of my life with no regret. i'm glad you brought this topic up, it's a very open subject that everyone has their view on.
I personally won't get one, but think that they can be very cool if you put thought into it, like any other major decision. If you just get a tattoo on a whim, you'll likely regret it & it likely won't look as good. Just my two cents.