What do you reckon about tattoos?

Their tattoos will look much the same as the rest of their saggy old bodies, I can confirm.
Tattoos, or lack of, make little difference to the overall look.

I don't have any myself. Neither do my children.

However I have absolutely no problem with people who wish to have them. It's none of my business.

And I always remember the first time I saw a girl in a video with Justin Timberlake . Cry Me a River.

There was the most stunning girl showing her back and she had what are now known as tramp stamps, (horrid term).
Anyway I thought it looked stunning.

As for looking grim and saggy as we age, I look grim and saggy most of the time and not a tattoo on me!

Like marmite ! I love both marmite and tattoos. My daughter is covered and I love her whatever. I also love all my tattoos and each one is about a special person in my life. After this lockdown ends I am having another - words this time .

MissAdventure

I really don’t like tattoos. However discreet ones are okish. My two granddaughters who are in their twenties ... one has quite a few and they are not attractive especially on the front of her ankle, the other one has bucked against the trend and hasn’t got any (that are visible?) neither parent has any, neither do I. They are not exactly classy on older women. I hope the trend dies out soon ....

Aged 60 and proud owner of 4 tattoos - 2 shoulder, one wrist and one foot!!

Speaking as someone with a number of tattoos:
I love my own. They have a personal meaning to me, were thought about long and hard, and I researched the artists who were going to make these permanent marks on my skin to make sure that they were both talented and safe. That also meant that they were not cheap, and one of them took over 3 years to complete.
That doesn’t mean that I like all tattoos as some are not to my taste, but just as I wouldn’t comment on someone’s personal sense of style, dress, or taste in music, I also wouldn’t comment on their choice of body adornment.
For me, it’s nothing to do with who they are, just the same as if they have no visible tattoos would not have a bearing on it either.

I am 65 and last year for my birthday i had a tattoo put on my wrist. Its both my grandsons names (one lives in Australia) I love it and i feel they are both with me all the time.

I read a bucket list about things I should have done by the age of 70
The only two things I hadn’t done was have a tattoo and get arrested
I got a small lotus flower tattoo on the inside of my ankle. I love it. It cheers me up It wasn’t painful and the salon was state of the art. Times change

On young skin they are fairly clear and the picture and any text well defined, they are also obviously permanent.
The problem is that as we all age and skiing becomes less taught and elastic, the picture and text becomes nothing short of a dry wrinkled mess and a blurr.
As a young Nurse l worked in a Skin clinic where Tattoo removal was offered, it was painfully messy, a similar procedure to having a skin graft done, and very expensive as it’s not something offered on the NHS.
Some of the larger Full sleeve type Tattoos will be permanent with no chance of removal due to their sheer size, the fashion for them is bound to change in coming years, and many will live to regret having had them done in the first place IMHO.

I like tattoos however old saggy skin is unattractive with or without tattoos.

Tacky, tacky, tacky....I hate them with a passion

I don't mind Tattoos on men, not sure about them on women though. I personally don't have them, one of my sons and my daughters have them. Again I don't like them on my girls. But regardless of that, they all eventually they go an awful mucky greenish colour that sink into wrinkles as we age, then they look awful, no matter who has them.

Beware of men with tattoos because they were sailors or prisoners? What’s the matter with sailors? I married one and he looked great in his uniform ( no tattoos though).

I know someone that had their belly button pierced for their 50 th birthday. Yuk.

I don't like lareg visible ones, but I have a discreet one that no one sees nowadays.

I remember grumbling that the two tattooed dots I had on my breast which delineated the area to be radiated as part of my BC treatment were black = the colour of death, to me. Why not red, I asked?
I LIKE red!

Some young women have them after domestic abuse. I think they feel a tattoo is a way to reclaim their own body.

I love Tattoos on me and on others. It's an expression and artwork all in one. Mine are a journey of names in my family and in my heart ♥️

It's easy to judge a book by it's cover. When my kids were in primary school there was a troubled mum who could not get her kids to school properly, mental health wasn't a topic then. Her partner was a man completely tattooed black with designs, only his eyes weren't. My kids called him 'circus man.' Well how we soon admired him as he bicycled the youngest to school every morning beaming in his clean uniform, clutching his lunch box - the older ones having walked themselves in. This wonderful man kept this up for years, doing the school run. His positive example I'm sure contributed to the eldest girl's fantastic scholastic achievements. You really can't judge a book by it's cover!

I'm really glad I read this thread. Apparently I'm tacky common as muck, scruffy, awful, disfigured, horrible, ugly, self mutilated, dirty and I look like a masculine sailor god, a twat, with skin that resembles the inside a public lavatory. You lot on here really know how to make a girl feel good about herself.

LadyStardust - don't forget that awful wrinkled prune look that any tattoo will inevitably turn into.

I can't believe another thread on tattoos has been unleashed, it's the fourth or fifth I've added to, and always it ends up in two camps - a bit like Marmite really.

I've never wanted to get one. My husband, both sons, their girlfriends, are all the same.

My (late) dad had tattoos done during his time in the war, and they didn't look nice when he was old and wrinkly. To each his own, though - it's personal taste.

In my view you cant scan the archives of GN for ever and ever looking to see if your thread has been posted previously ( that search thing doesnt work, ive tried it several times before starting a thread ) so you either post a reply or scroll past.

Right, about tattoos nanna8 ....
I would never have 1, if people want them then thats up to them.

My son and daughter have them, my mum saw my daughters and looked horrified ( Chinese lettering on her shoulder ! Nooo idea what the heck it says) my daughter fibbed to defuse the awkward situation and said it was henna. My mum licked her finger an TRIED to rub it off... hilarious ( despite the fact i don't like them i thought the whole thing unfolding before my eyes was so funny )