Grandma70s and Lemongrove it is not a lower class or lack of self-esteem thing. I go to a David Lloyd health club daily to swim. They do a very good OAP rate . And quite a few people, more men than women but both, have tattoos. You can see them all in the pool. It might be a good deal for OAPs but it is not that cheap unless you use it often. So they must all be people with Waitrose incomes and jobs to offer those. As there are so many I can't think they lack self-esteem. They seem fine when you chat to them
I'd not have a tattoo myself, although I had my ears pierced when I was about 20. My mum had too and her mum. People did then as it meant earrings were safer from being lost. I haven't had anything else pierced . #1 daughter has a small tattoo I think..maybe it was on her ankle. I can't recall. Something like a flower. I don't think her younger sister has one.