Getting a tattoo

If I have ever been even slightly tempted, that has out me off the idea of a tattoo forever. Yuk.

I'm sure we had a thread along these lines recently....

Put me off not out me off. These damn acrylic fingernails.

I wouldn't mind the actual 'being done' of it, so long as it is no worse than pricking of holly leaves. It would have to be very simple though. So as to be quick.

I don't think I would do it now though. It would be like telling a lie. If I was a tatoo kind of person, I would have had one by now.

Although I suppose people change.............

And at our age we might not have so long to regret it. (there's cheerful! )

We hav e already had a thread.

We had a thread but not a blog. I though the blog made all sound a complete nightmare.

I didn't read all of it.

What I would like to know is...

1) If you have a tattoo done when you are young and firm (!) what happens when you get older and saggier

2) If you are already old and saggy doesn't it present rather a challenge?

Yes, the blog doesn't address either point, does it? I would think that:

1) The tattoo gets older and saggier as well
2) Probably!

Some bits are less saggy than others so I would guess it depends where you have it done.

rosie re (10 and (2) according to a doctor friend of mine, a dolphin becomes a whale. I do a lot of tattoo spotting (evil fascination) and I'm yet to see one that hasn't faded with age.

That should be (1) not (10 ...

A tattoo on aged skin will probably look like a pattern on a creased curtain, not that I would know because wild horses wouldn't drag me down that road.

Not for me I think they are ugly and unsightly.

Nor me!

Don't care for them at all.

I wouldn"t have one , would be afraid it would hurt

Have never had one my self each to there own

As I said on the other thread-only DNR on my forehead past 75/80yrs and going into hospital is the only tattoo worth the money.

stansgran . QI re the comment about tattoos being addictive. This blogger doesn't enjoy the process, so what is it then - the ritual of planning, the anticipation, admiring the final work of (body) art? Quite a few of my younger women friends seem to have stopped at one - usually something symbolic to them. But - 'self-inflicted harm', pain, skin being stained with ink, having to avoid the risk of blood borne virus infection... I just don't get it. As john says each to their own.

They do "stick on" tattoes in the £1 shop

My GDs love the ones that come with chewing-gum - hope they don't get addicted!

My GD put a temporary tattoo of a mermaid on my ankle last year on holiday. Why not, as long as it washes off?

I am 55 and I have 6 tattoos on my left arm and my right hand. I absolutely love them. None of them have hurt, and I have a very low pain threshold, believe me!! All of them mean something to me, and as for when I get older, so what?? Thousands of people will have them. Piercings? No, I have my ears pierced but that's it for me. But tattoos?? Bring it on!! My next one will be to celebrate my new grandson's birth. But what to have?? Mmmmm.......