Young women's Tatoos

Solution for the desperate!

I wouldn't want to wear the same jewellery all the time, so why would I want to look at the same 'skin decoration' all the time, either?
Personally, I don't like them, and I know people who regret having them done. However, they are doing no damage, except to their bank-balances, and maybe their job and romance prospects!
There are worse things to spend your money on, but getting tattoos seems to be almost as addictive as smoking, drinking or drugs to some people.

Notanan you are quite right I don't like tatoos, but my point is if & when the young women are old if they are depressed will they then seek to get help from the NHS

For goodness sake, aren’t you overthinking all the ifs and when’s?
When did depression come into the equation? ,

Notanan2 you are quite right I don't like tatoos, but my point is if & when the young women are old if they are depressed will they then seek to get help from the NHS, & if you care to read on tatoos are under certain circumstances removed on the NHS. I have got wrinkles they don't bother me, I do wear jewelry ( but not pearls) give me gold any day. I admit the subject is under the wrong heading, but my opinion on young women & tatoos is mine & I am entitled to it, just the same as you feel you are entitled to criticise me, as I said previously you seem to be a very angry & I now also think self opinionated woman sad really.

My youngest daughter's answer was that when she is an old lady everyone will be the same....

It is reported that the NHS WILL remove tattoos but only if causing great psychological damage. Apparently just over £330,000 spent on this since 2010 I saw when Googled.

I personally don’t like them, I think they look awful but I defend anyone’s right to have them if that’s what they like.
My DGD wants one, but what stops her getting one isn’t people’s comments, it’s the thought of a needle anywhere near her.
Would I object to the NHS being expected to pay for removal, yes, but mainly because my DD who has mental health issues already can’t get treatment near home because of funding shortages, so self inflicted damage should cost the individual. Where I work currently will not employ anyone with visible tattoos, but I dare say someone will soon sue on the grounds of ‘tattooism’.

One of my pet hates is tattooing. One of the stylists at the hair salon I go to has one arm totally covered with a tattoo, a ring in her nose, and several studs up each year. She has the prettiest face and smile, but the tattoo in particular spoils her appearance, in my opinion.

I don’t think they show individuality or uniqueness anymore.
In fact I would go so far as to say as children always rebel against what has gone before, it is most likely that this ‘fashion’ will have run its course by the time today’s infants can choose for themselves

Oh you make your point clearly enough jennyvg
Mine is, why pretend to deflect attention from moaning about “young women” by attempting to be concerned about NHS resources.
And as for getting old and wrinkly - so what?
Your opinion, your prejudices. Not necessarily everybody’s.
You could always get GNHQ to move the thread to a more appropriate topic area- Health? Style and beauty? Chat? Plenty to choose from.

MawBroonsback the point I was trying to make is that while tatoos look fine on young women's skin what will happen when they grow old, with wrinkled & perhaps flabby skin, will they then become depressed with how they look,
Plenty of old ladies on this thread telling you that being inked AND old isnt depressing
Whats so awful about wrinkles anyway?
You still get wrinkles if you DONT get tattoos
&, tattoos cover up skin irregularities anyway
Do you think the same about jewellery: "oh old women shouldnt wear it, it might draw attention to them then people will see their wrinkles and then they'll be depressed.." - nope
Your faux concern for women with tattoos doesnt hold water. Just admit it, you just dont like them

& then seek to have them removed on NHS.
Yet thats not happening.....

I don't know why it was posted under education my mistake I suppose,
But you dont wanna hear any reason why the rest of your OP may be mistaken

The only tattoo I have is one done on my breast before receiving radiation treatment to "line me up" after breast cancer. I couldn't see it then and I certainly can't see it now either, so it must have been small.

Whatever floats one’s boat! Personally, I don’t like them; however, I do have some pearls which I wear with jeans and a black, leather, biker jacket. I love to mix things up when it comes to dressing - expensive handbag, a squirt of Chanel No.5, blue nails....but no body art! ?

Maw I agree none of us know what will happen to the NHS in the future!

However you say, with regard to NHS funded tattoo removal, that you “think the opposite is likely to be the case, just as dental treatment and prescriptions which started out free, now have to be paid for.” My response to this would be that a large percentage of the population still receive free prescriptions (everyone in Scotland) and free dental treatment!

I personally think the NHS will still exist in some form in the future. It may be that those who can afford it will have to pay for their own, or have some sort of health insurance, while still paying for those of us who cannot afford to pay and will still receive free “NHS” treatment.

I hate to see large and many tattoos on women, don;t mind smaller ones, but i think all over and sleeve tattoos are awful, but it is up to individuals what they do with their own bodies, all my sons have some, but just arm tattoos and not full sleeve,my daughter has a mall one on her foot

No problem, not to my taste but each to their own. I can imagine nursing homes in years to come where there are plenty of tattoos and piercings and everyone is engrossed in their iPads ?

My daughters answer to a lady who asked her how she will feel with all her tattoos when she is old and wrinkly was “ well, I’ll be a colourful old wrinkly lady”.

The real problem is that they are permanent. Otherwise they would just be a bit of experimental fun, like dying hair green or wearing long blue false nails.

I think they look ridiculous, to be honest, but I don’t expect the people who have them care what I think.

How, if tattoos are individual choice and highly personal, do they not define one?

MawBroonsback the point I was trying to make is that while tatoos look fine on young women's skin what will happen when they grow old, with wrinkled & perhaps flabby skin, will they then become depressed with how they look, & then seek to have them removed on NHS. I don't know why it was posted under education my mistake I suppose,

I don't have any tattoos, but I am happy that men and women who like them can and do have them.

They may regret them later on, or they may not, who knows?

I would like to think, but I know it is not likely to happen, that being "old and wrinkly" would be seen as something positive, signifying that we have led a long life, rather than something to be regretted or looked down upon.

Whether the old and wrinkly skin is tattooed or not doesn't matter a hoot.

On the contrary Chucky none of us knows what the NHS -if it still exists - in the future may or may not pay for. In fact I think the opposite is likely to be the case, just as dental treatment and prescriptions which started out free, now have to be paid for.
I may not like tattoos, I may not like bleached hair with dark roots, I may not like Capn Birdseye beards on young men or dreadlocks or whatever, but oh my goodness is it any of our business what other people do? And why is this about young women’s tattoos anyway?
Men of all ages and indeed women of all ages have them so why should some Grans start tutting about “young women”?

And why has it been posted under “Education” ?

Yes jenny should have said I agreed with you, I think we definitely are right on this one!
Maybe not a problem at the moment, but treatments that are allowed on NHS do change!

Clairvoyant3 love your comment

Chucky this is exactly the point I was trying to make in the first place