Tattoos - Would you? Do you? If so, regrets?

Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:I have one, below my ankle on my inner right heel. It only shows when I'm barefoot or wearing sandals. Most people don't notice it.
I don't regret it, it symbolizes the abortion I had when my ex-fiance threatened to beat me until I miscarried. It was a turning point in my life, I left him 3wks later and started over.
I plan to get another one, small and hidden and somewhere that won't sag (no bigger than 1x1in, on an inner wrist, behind my ear, nape of neck). I have a design chosen and it also has deep meaning to me. I just can't justify the expense right now though.
Like 14:44, I find certain tattoos trashy, but not all.


Seriously, good for you. My tattoo symbolized my freedom as a young person and at that time in my life it was what I desperately needed to do for myself.


Lol. Tramp stamp, amirite?


Yeah, like, totally girl.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:I think the whole "tattoos are trashy" is such a stereotype. People love to characterize others who are 'different' as sub-human. Whatever makes you feel better about yourself. There are plenty of successful, nice people with tattoos - I'm a cancer researcher with one.


No one said YOU are trashy, they just look trashy. Things I think look trashy: blue eye shadow, big hair, large fake tits, dipping, smoking, butt cracks hanging out of jeans, pink flamingos and cars jacked up on blocks in the yard, keeping on your Christmas lights until summer, and of course tattoos. I'm sure you are perfectly classy, as are smokers, but I still think it a trashy look and definitely not for everyone.


How can you generalize - tattoos are unique for the most part. I would agree some tattoos look trashier than others (cartoon character vs Hawaiian tribal), but I disagree with the idea that just the presence of a tattoo is trashy.


You are right because blue eye shadow can look nice and smoking sure did look classy when Audrey Hepburn did it. However, I stand by the fact that I think most tattoos look pretty trashy, except when a hot guy with with bad ass muscles and 5% body fat has a full sleeve, kind of like Henry Rollins back in the day-I'd definitely hit that any Thursday in 1996.


I'm with ya. I met Henry Rollins back in April of 1994.
Anonymous
I can't think of anything that so loudly proclaims trailer trash like a tattoo. In Southern Md (think Waldorf), the percentage of those with "body art" (cough cough) is striking.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:Trashy, declasse and more important, permanent!


Permanent? Let's talk permanence. A friend of mine had her scarred chest inked with beautiful flowers, after her double mastectomy. Should I call her and tell her she's "trashy?" If you don't have anything nice to say, shut the fuck up.


Not your friend, but you are a great example of trash, tattoo or not.

Slow down slugger.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I can't think of anything that so loudly proclaims trailer trash like a tattoo. In Southern Md (think Waldorf), the percentage of those with "body art" (cough cough) is striking.


It's clear that you are sooo superior to Waldorf and tattooed people.
Anonymous
I often say about my tattoo "What cost $70 and took 90 minutes put on, and $3000 and 18 months to remove".

Got at tattoo at the age of 20, hungover and locked out of my apartment. Me and my roomie said - let's get tattoos! 12 years later, it is removed after a very expensive, painful and lengthy lasar treatment.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I can't think of anything that so loudly proclaims trailer trash like a tattoo. In Southern Md (think Waldorf), the percentage of those with "body art" (cough cough) is striking.


People who diss other people who live (or have lived) in trailers piss me off!! I was raised by a single mother with 5 children on welfare. We lived in an old, dilapidated trailer. We were fed tons of grilled cheese sandwiches on cheap white bread thanks to USDA's government-issued cheese program. My mother recently died a poor woman, not one of my siblings graduated from HS, all of us were labled special ed, 3 of my siblings have been incarcerated (one still is), and the 2 that work are paycheck-to-paycheck, at best. That said, nearly 1000 people attended my mother's funeral because she was an amazingly sweet human being (trailer trash?). My siblings are some of the most beautiful people you could ever meet - they would literally give you the shirt off their backs (trailer trash?). We were dealt a very tough hand early on, but we didn't get bitter at the world, or get down on ourselves. It hurts me deeply to hear this term, trailer trash, used toward anyone and to think that I am likely among people everyday that feel this way about another human spirit simply based on not where they live, but what they live in. Are we THAT broken?
Anonymous
Do you have one/some? no
Would you get one? I wouldn't, because they're trashy.
Age? 40
Sex? F

(And this is coming from midwestern "trailer trash".)
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have one, below my ankle on my inner right heel. It only shows when I'm barefoot or wearing sandals. Most people don't notice it.
I don't regret it, it symbolizes the abortion I had when my ex-fiance threatened to beat me until I miscarried. It was a turning point in my life, I left him 3wks later and started over.
I plan to get another one, small and hidden and somewhere that won't sag (no bigger than 1x1in, on an inner wrist, behind my ear, nape of neck). I have a design chosen and it also has deep meaning to me. I just can't justify the expense right now though.
Like 14:44, I find certain tattoos trashy, but not all.


Seriously, good for you. My tattoo symbolized my freedom as a young person and at that time in my life it was what I desperately needed to do for myself.


Lol. Tramp stamp, amirite?


I'm so confused by this post. Who are you talking to? The first poster doesn't have a tramp stamp, or are you implying that she IS a tramp bc she had an abusive partner and now has a tattoo?

Or are you implying that the 2nd poster has a tramp stamp? Why? Because she used the words "freedom" and "young" in the same sentence?

Seriously. I normally enjoy snark, but it has to make sense. This doesn't.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:Have any of your ever seen older people (60+) with tattoos? It's NOT pretty. What looks cool when you're 20 or even 30 looks absolutely awful at 60 or 70. Skin sags. Yuck!


I'm pretty sure that no part of my (or your) 70 year old body is going to be "pretty."


You are so wrong and so very limited in your view of an aging female. Helen MirrenOlympia Dukakis, Jessye Norman (opera singer) Beverly Johnson

Sad, but it is probably your self hatred that drives you to allow someone to draw pictures on your body in the first place. An aging woman is so beautiful. And not just the supermodels--all women can be beautiful, at all ages.
Anonymous
gawd 21:55 it's the internet. settle down.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Have any of your ever seen older people (60+) with tattoos? It's NOT pretty. What looks cool when you're 20 or even 30 looks absolutely awful at 60 or 70. Skin sags. Yuck!


I'm pretty sure that no part of my (or your) 70 year old body is going to be "pretty."


You are so wrong and so very limited in your view of an aging female. Helen MirrenOlympia Dukakis, Jessye Norman (opera singer) Beverly Johnson

Sad, but it is probably your self hatred that drives you to allow someone to draw pictures on your body in the first place. An aging woman is so beautiful. And not just the supermodels--all women can be beautiful, at all ages.


You are showing examples of beautiful celebrities, with make-up. True, they are very beautiful and have aged gracefully (a couple with a doctors help), but that is not the average woman. The average 70 year old does not look like that. I do agree with you that the aging process is a beautiful thing and we should all allow ourselves to age naturally. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen for most people. So, while some woman want to see a doctor to try and make them look younger, some prefer to adorn their bodies with tattoos...some of which can be beautifully done.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I can't think of anything that so loudly proclaims trailer trash like a tattoo. In Southern Md (think Waldorf), the percentage of those with "body art" (cough cough) is striking.


Actually, a lot of people all over the good old U.S. of A. have tattoos. it's just here in tight-assed DC that they are not as commonly displayed. if you ventured out of your judgy bitch-bubble once in a while you'd know that, instead you just emarasss yourself by displaying that your knowledge of the world is limited to a 50 mile radius.
Anonymous


Do you have one/some? I have two
Do you regret getting one? If so, why? I do not regret getting them. I got the first at 20, the second at 30 and they represent "me" at the time. The one at 20 is kinda stupid, but so was I. The one at 30 is cool.
Would you get one? I plan on getting another at 40 and again at 50. And if I ever shave my head I'd totally tat my head.
Where would you put it? I like the inner wrist and nape of the neck. Maybe another on my foot
Age? 33
Sex? F
Anonymous
Do you have one/some? no
Would you get one? I think about getting one, but can't actually do it. I'm a person who has trouble deciding what to order for dinner on any given day; I can't decide what I'd want to have permanently on my body.
Age? 40
Sex? F


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