Young women's Tatoos

Her tattoos will age with her, it's part of her life memories
I'm sure she will one day look at those wrinkled tattoos, enjoying the memories they bring ...

I am 51 and very heavily tattooed and my husband is a tattoo artist...the issue of getting old and having wrinkly tattoos is old school as time goes on more and more women are being heavily tattooed so in say 10 15 years noone will careless and non tattooed people shouldn't care anyway it's not their issue, I have my hands tattooed not bothered what others think as I age I know what my tattoos are and if I'm asked as I age I'll explain.. people who dont like tattoos or think women go too mad with them its personal choice and should not be anyone else's problem..

Personally I just see them as mutilations. However, I do know someone who used to cut her arms as a teenager to deal with horrendous anxiety, and she had 2 tattoo "sleeves" done to cover up the scars. She did lots of research and found a really talented tattoo artist - and they are beautiful. (Still wouldn't have them done myself).

I had a rose tattooed on my breast when I was young and it's now a hanging basket.

I have 18 tattoo's! I love them. None of them are what would be perceived as nasty type tattoos! Even if they were it is up to the individual person.

Mine are generally nature tattoos, a ribbon tattoo with my adult children's name in, a flying bird with my grandchildren initials on the wings, an angel praying over a sleeping baby. I do have my football club tattoo, some spiritual tattoos and two country flags. One is the the flag and the other I had a year ago after my husband unexpectedly passed away in his memory which is the Welsh dragon, surrounded by daffodils, with his name etc on. I have some Disney ones too.

Do I plan to have anymore? Yes I do. Do any of my adult youngsters have them? Two out of four of them have a few.

Some people hang their art, others like me prefer to wear it. I know they will probably look different when I am older. I dont care. All my tattoos were done for a reason. They say I have lived also and give me poignant memories

Oops I missed out a bit where it says one is the flag. It should say one flag is the Greek flag because of our love for Greece and the islands

Well put lacy5488. I decided many years ago I'd like 5 tattoos - over many years I've had 4...(all done before it become commonplace) designed by myself to illustrate various paths in my life. I plan No.5 for next month. The idea they'll go wrinkly is a myth, mine are all as tight as when they were first done and I'm in my 70's. From what many posters are saying (eg: 'live and let live') hard wired attitudes have slightly shifted. I will never grow old gracefully, and am proud of my individuality, long purple hair and tattoos - and I don't hurt anyone, and wouldn't dream of judging others by their outside packages.

Whilst at the moment tattoos may not be removed on the NHS, I would expect that to change, in the not too distant future.

Once it is deemed that tattoos can affect someone’s mental health, which will happen (if it hasn’t already), there will be calls for the NHS to fund their tattoo removal!!

When someone dies through trying to remove a tattoo themselves (blood poisoning, using acid etc) funding for this will be reviewed and the burden will fall to the NHS!

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

Clairvoyant3 love your comment

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!

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” ?

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.

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,

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

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.

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”.

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 ?

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

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.

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! ?

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.

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

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.

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