Just tell him to get a small tardis not the actual picture. Face tattoos are hard to do and good ones cost a fortune. Not worth it at all unless it has a really personal meaning. But Dr Who...no way.

Most people who have inking appear tacky. I know of an agency head that looks like a gangster sans clothes but in a suit looks like a typical govy dad type. Wonder what happens when they go to the beach, country club, resort?

I get tired of pictures hanging on the wall. I cannot imagine being happy in 5 years with a tattoo I've selected today. Our tastes change throughout life.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see what the big deal is. I have multiple tattoos, including on my face and neck. They aren’t trashy and no one treats me differently. I’m professional at work. Live a little!

Are you a prison guard?

Anonymous wrote:I am reading this to my DH and he really wants to know what character. Please say!

OP. It's a Dr Who tattoo. Probably his favorite Dr. but I don't know which one that is.

I don’t see what the big deal is. I have multiple tattoos, including on my face and neck. They aren’t trashy and no one treats me differently. I’m professional at work. Live a little!

They’re trashy and look ridiculous unless you have a personality and lifestyle to carry it off. Most don’t.

Why not start with a henna or temporary tattoo?

I toyed with the idea of getting a tiny one in my 20s. I got it applied in henna first, and within a week I was ready to scrub it and off and move on.

I am reading this to my DH and he really wants to know what character. Please say!

My well-educated husband has five tattoos (he had one when I met him). None of them are particularly meaningful. That first one is a little faded, but all of them were well-done.

I am completely neutral when it comes to tattoos - I don't want one, but I don't think they are inherently trashy and I don't usually make judgments about people who have them (exceptions for face/neck tattoos, tramp stamps, and anything that looks like a prison tattoo).

Anonymous wrote:Of a Sci Fi character? No. I would not approve. He's an adult and would not need my "consent," but I would think he was being an idiot and would tell him so,

A more meaningful tattoo? I would like approve. My husband is a Marine and has a tattoo specific to being a Marine.

So does mine. It’s his only ink.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Husband wants a tattoo of a sci fi character. I am not sure where probably his arm. Would you let your husband get one? He does not need me to agree, but he is asking me. The only problem I can see is that he will complain a lot about the pain afterwards and that it will look faded after a few years.

"let him"? It's his body. Sounds juvenile AF with his choice, but it's his body!

Aren't tattoos expensive?

Anonymous wrote:The DCUM pearl clutchers always recoil in horror at the thought of a tattoo!

You can't tell me that injecting dye into your skin and blood stream is good for you.

Anonymous wrote:No. Just no. A tattoo always diminishes the wearer.

+1

Tattoos wear you.

Anonymous wrote:No. Just no. A tattoo always diminishes the wearer.

+1

Anonymous wrote:We are not tattoo people, and we wouldn’t be together if either of us were. Also no strange piercings or haircuts or colors.

Lol, you sound like my H. He was very anti-tattoo, piercings, weird hair, etc. I wanted to get a few purple highlights in my hair when I was in my 20s, and he threw a fit.

Guess who hit their midlife crisis and got a full sleeve? Yup. You never know, somebody can suddenly become a "tattoo person"