Ugly fashions

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.

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.

tattoo not a tattie around since 5000years at least

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…😀

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.

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

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!

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

But at least they are temporary and can be easily changed

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

Neither of my sons seem to feel the need for tattoos, but three of my adult grandchildren have them. Some are quite nice actually, entwined flowers and curlicues.
I wouldn't mind a small one myself, but have been told that my skin is too old and it wouldn't look nice.

keepingquiet

I am thankful that neither of my children have tattoos or piercings. I must have brought them up right. lol.

My niece has a nose piercing which she things is really radical, but no one really cares- she's well over thirty and not a teenager!

Judgy much

Your opinion only. I’m 68 and got my first tattoo 2 years ago and now have four. I also had my nose pierced recently.
I find them beautiful and don’t give a monkeys for other people’s opinions.
Don’t look if it upsets you so much.

I suggested to my granddaughter that tattoos would look horrid in later life on a wrinkly skin. She said that, if she wore the same clothes that I wear, no-one would see them. That's me put in my place!

Hate seeing them on women necks !

I got my first tattoo at 60!

foxie48

The older I get, the less inclined I am to judge the choices others make unless they adversely affect other people. My mother hated pierced ears, but I had mine pierced and always wear ear rings. I'm not keen on lots of ear piercings but my younger daughter has several and wear lots of little ear rings. Her ears, her choice! She also wears a discreet nose ring. She's got 16 letters after her name and is a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, I doubt any of her patients care much about her piercings! My older daughter has a large tattoo although she now regrets having it. However, it was her choice and she's having to live with the consequences but it hasn't stopped her from having five books published! FGS live and let live. There's a phrase, "don't judge a book by it's cover" and for anyone to suggest that someone has been brought up badly if they choose to have piercings or tattoos is somewhat sanctimonious.

I used to work with an elfin-beautiful and lissom young woman (hot chick lesbian) who had a glorious tattoo of a climbing briar which started from her foot, and twined upwards around her elegant leg until it disappeared into her very short shorts where apparently the wild rose flowered on her pudenda.

Lets just say, what was lovely then, is not on the varicose veins and huge thighs of a solid middle aged bodybuilder on steroids. Who now identifies as a man.

(Whatever happened to the rose?)

One of my step-grandaughters, who is one of the lovliest persons I know has tattooes on legs and lot of ear piercings and she's a barrister

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