Ugly fashions

One or two is decorative, but this full covering or unrelated images is plain ugly. Beckham looks a mess now. I cannot see for the life of me why people damage themselves and opt for pain.

Babs03

I don’t care what people look like as long as they are kind and caring people.

Exactly! And people always say 'oh, tattoos will look horrible when you're old and wrinkly', but I'm sure if you're lucky enough to reach a ripe old age, you won't give two hoots what people think anyway! And given that so many people have them now, in years to come, half the folk in care homes etc will have them in any case.

Totally agree - some tattooed young people call it ‘body art’? Nothing artistic about it!

80 now, one small tat of my foot, which I had done when I started belly dancing, but, if I was young now, I would love a Belly Bar. But, that ship as they say has sailed.

In the 1930s 4Os, women plucked their eyebrows to create these very thin pencil lines you see in films of the period. My mother in law always warned my daughter, her grand daughter, never to pluck her eyebrows, as she, a teenager at the time, had done so, and they never grew in again when the fashions changed. . So plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

I hate tattoos and find them ugly. Is it a form of self-harm? However, it is the old adage of whatever you do behind closed doors is entirely up to you but please do not inflict it on me. Whoever said "look away" made a facile remark. That is invariably not possible.

Many years ago, there was a radio programme on this very subject. When she was young, a woman had a pheasant tattooed somewhere on her body but said now that she had aged, it looked more like road kill!!

Well tattoos aren't fashion, they've been around as long as humans and piercings aren't new either.
But you're ugly is someone else's attractive. I like tattoos, I have several myself and would have a lot more if I had the money. I like them, it doesn't matter to me whether you do or not, they're not on your body they're on mine and my body doesn't affect you or anyone else.

And I've never regretted any of my tattoos apart from one (a stupid homemade one I thought was cool when I was 15) and I won't regret them in the future.

It's like me saying when will the fashion of blue rinses and elderly women going and getting their hair set once a week. I find it utterly ridiculous, but I don't complain about people doing it because it doesn't make any difference to me.

DD2 has very pretty wild flower tattoos on her feet; and swallow and irises on one arm. She has lots of health problems and doesn’t always feel great about her body, which she feels has let her down badly. She likes the fact that when she is laid up, she can see the pretty tattoos on her feet and ignore everything in between!

Watermeadow Shaved heads and stubble ‘ugly’!?
You obviously haven’t seen Pep Guardiola, or my husband!

I have Rheumatoid arthritis in my knees and can not straighten my legs properly so wide leg trousers and jeans are great as they hide my bent legs. I also have tattoos and piercings. Thankfully we are all individuals with our own likes and dislikes, boring world of we were all the same.

SusieBQ

Chocolatelovinggran

My son shaves his head because he is almost bald. I think that he's quite good looking, and so does his lovely wife.

Same with my son - so much better than a seventies comb over!

My eldest son too, but I think he’s absolutely beautiful, with or without hair, he’s also one of the nicest people I know…😀

tattoo not a tattie around since 5000years at least

The trouble with tattoos is that they're permanent. However artistic they are, if the wearers get fed up with them they can't do anything about it. Are under-18s allowed them? I haven't got anything against temporary inking, such as henna.

Lovely lady at my supermarket, she is covered in tattoos and piercings, she can’t help you enough, but I dread her serving me because although I chat to her and we have a laugh my stomach is turning and I feel as if I am choking. I have a phobia I think, so I avoid. Perhaps her partner is like her so they see beauty.

I don't dislike tattoos or piercing and DH had one at 50 and I did consider one myself but never bothered, I know lots of people who have them . I think it can be a generation thing as years ago it was considered that people who had them were very rough. But times and people have changed.

vintage1950

The trouble with tattoos is that they're permanent. However artistic they are, if the wearers get fed up with them they can't do anything about it. Are under-18s allowed them? I haven't got anything against temporary inking, such as henna.

No, in the UK anyway you have to be 18, legally speaking, to get a tattoo.

Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. I think it’s fine for one to have their own personal preference, but there is something pathological about being so judgmental about the way others should look. It really cannot be healthy.

Me too, along with the tops that are shorter in the front (usually baggy) than at the back.

My ex royal Marine son has a couple of beautiful tattoos on his back and shoulder. His Marine friends generally had tattoos do with the Marines, but when son was in Thailand he had a couple of angel tattoos.

Witzend

Babs03

I thought this thread was about the awful wide legged trousers dominating the fashion scene.🫤

Me too! Extra wide, and barrel legs. All utterly hideous IMO.

Surely different styles suit different people. My DD looks great in wide legged trousers as she is very slim and has long legs. They look far better on her than straight leg or drainpipe trousers.

I love wide trousers but I quite accept some don't fair enough we're all entitled to express our personal tastes.

I guess I’m lucky that I can see beyond someone’s appearance to the person beneath , it seems a lot of gransnetters don’t have this ability.
Gransnett going full on judgmental as usual .

Since my 30s I've had very sparse eyelashes. They were never wonderful and I think I wrecked them wearing false eyelashes as the pop stars and models did in the 60s. My DD never wore them.

Babs03

I thought this thread was about the awful wide legged trousers dominating the fashion scene.🫤

They can look amazing, but I think it's an incredibly difficult look to get right, & most of us don't have a personal stylist...

It is of course in the eye of the beholder. Myself I hate tattoos.