Young women's Tatoos

Can't say I can understand the yearning to have tattoos plastered all over. I do feel if someone had an accident that left them covered in marks similar to tattoos, it wouldn't be long before there was a demand to have them removed.

I can't understand why anyone thinks this is a good look??
I absolutely hate tattoos.

MawBroonsback When I started this thread I obviously put it under the wrong heading, something you seem to have taken offence at, I can only apologise to you for this I will try to do better in future. I am beginning to wish that I hadn't posted the thread in the first place I didn't think it would generate such unnecessary unpleasantness, But I think that enough is enough now though don't you? I don't know you you don't know me, but I feel this has started to get personal so can we agree to let it go?

Esspee... as i said before tattoos do not define a person. If employers wont employ people with tattoos then they could be losing a fabulous employee and a wonderful person, why should it be classed as making themselves unemployable.

I get that it's a personal thing and each to their own. It's so commonplace now but if I'm honest, I'd I see tattoos on a professional person, I am a little surprised. I genuinely think that people have them to enhance their looks but I don't think it does that. Makes me a bit judgmental and can't help that I'm afraid.

I dislike tattoos intensely and wouldn’t have them, however, I can’t criticise those who like them, so long as they don’t make me submit to the process.
I do like my pearls, and assert my right to clutch them convulsively whenever I feel like it!

I am not keen on tattoos,I saw a young mother the other day, with her armms completely tattooed she looked as thought she had two black sleeves, she was otherwise wearing a short sleeved T shirt, certainly not attractive in my humble opinion.(I am now ready to be hung)

personally i dont like tattoos. but its the persons choice whether they have tattoo's or not.some ladies have tattoo's...because they had/have cancer and have a tattoo on their chest or ever......

wherever. sorry.

I hate them as well. There is a guy in a local pub who has the most horrible tattoos. They are all over his arms little arrow all over his arms and legs and snakes etc.
Another awful one I saw was a woman with half a black unfinished swooping angel.

To me they look very aggressive.
If you want to do that to yourself it's up to you.

I would not employ anyone with visible tattoos in a customer facing role.
I cringe when I see a tattoo.
I do not understand why anyone would permanently ink themselves.
I wish I felt differently and I understand how some people think it’s creative, expressive etc.
I just think it looks awful.

There is a long tradition of elaborate tattoos in all the islands of the southern Pacific, including New Zealand where I live. In the past, it was always women who did the tattoos which both represented all kinds of stories about their ancestry and beginnings and celebrated the power of women. Once Europeans arrived, these women were side-lined and tattoos became a male thing.

Tattooing is an art form here often using subtle colours and highly detailed original designs. My daughter has the most beautifully delicate spray of flowers on the back of her neck as well as a unique Celtic design on one arm to celebrate her Irish ancestry. She and her father also have the same design of two bees – their shared initials.

I do not have tattoos, partly because I am already old and wrinkly and partly because these sorts of tattoos take a long time to do – sometimes more than one session of several hours each. They also cost a lot of money. However, I am hugely impressed with the sheer beauty – no other word for it – of the tattoos that decorate the bodies of both my daughter and son-in-law, including one each from their holiday in Bali. No barbed wire, bright red hearts and tatty roses with a name banner beneath in this part of the world.

Your not being unreasonable at all if that's your opinion. Personally I love tattoos my 3 adult children have them everywhere my 2 sons do my daughter has a a few but in good taste she has 2 little bows just under her collar bones on her back she has a horse shoe with my late fathers name around the outside of the horse shoe in the middle she has written Grandads little girl as she adored him and took his death extremely hard but this tattoo means the world to her and I know my father would give her the ??Up as my / brothers were Jockeys and myself and my father owned racehorses so this tattoo is powerful in its meaning and my 2 sons have on their bodies stories as each tattoo to them means something important. It's actually body art in its finest form

If you are stupid enough, or dissatisfied with who you are ,enough to get yourself tattooed then getting them removed is cosmetic surgery and the person should pay to have it done privately! That’s why there is a minimal age limit for tattoos....an age when you have supposedly grown out of childish stuff!

I think everyone should do as they please my reason for not having any tattoos was this :I was 18 on a Greek island with a group of girls and a old lady called us over to get her a drink we did then got chatting She lifted her very old arms and showed us her tattoos by stretching the skin out and then showed us more .She then said girls I am 89 look at these tattoos don't get any ! It just stuck with me But daughter and Daughter in law have them x

Tattoos on men ......can look quite sexy.

Tattoos on women......99% of the time they look cheap, tacky, & chavvy.

If you want your body to look like a badly graffitied public toilet then go ahead.

My younger daughter had a small seahorse in her shoulder. As she got older she hated it and had several expensive laser treatments to get rid if it. All that did was leave her with a very smudgy faded seahorse!
She then had a tree tattooed on top of the old one but would still rather not have it at all.
She sometimes uses a scar covering makeup on it if she wants to disguise its presence and that works really well. It is a small tattoo though, don't know how well it would work on bigger ones.
By the way, I don't think it's judgemental not to employ people with visible tattoos in professions like the law. It can still give a false impression to clients.

Oh dear...same old vitriol after all

I dislike them intensely for many different reasons and have yet to see one in real life that looks tasteful, but that's just my opinion - as long as they aren't offensive, don't interfere with my life or create demands on overstretched NHS resources (which they won't, I'm sure) then it's up to the individual what they want to do with their bodies.

I'm just very relieved that neither of my elder 2 DCs (both early 20s) have them or have any intention of getting them as your tastes change so much when you're young. If it was down to me at that age to make that sort of decision I'd now have enormous permed hair and heavy black eyeliner in my 50s!

I think I actually have a PHOBIA about tattoos like some people have phobias to spiders! I just don't 'get' why people think they enhance their appearance at all. I see a lovely looking young woman in a beautiful say white/cream dress and these truly ugly looking ink stains all down her arms/chest/neck/legs wherever. Makes me shudder. I want to wet a hanky and rub them out!

I have actually yet to see a tattoo I think looks nice. And yes, it does seem to become an addiction - once people get one they seem to carry on!

Thank you jennyvg for bringing this up and letting me voice my disapproval about tattoos. I am definitely in the minority but there do seem to be a fair few folk who agree with me too.

Tedber Thankyou, we are definitely in the minority on this site, & has been pointed out to me several times each to his or her own.

its a great thread gives everyone chance to voice their opinions and thats brilliant x

I am just so grateful that none of my children or grandchildren have tattoos.

They only look ok on old sailors.

Tattoos make me feel nervous and ill.

They are always making a statement but it is never the one the wearer thinks they are making.