Do You Feel Tattoos Are a Generational Thing?

My heart tattoo with LuLu inscribed in it dates back to when I fell in love with her singing "To Sir With Love."...
 
I think tattoos are exceedingly unattractive, especially on a woman where here they are often referred to as "tramp stamps". I don't know about being a generational thing , they are certainly a social class related thing.
 

I heartily agree with you Aeron. Always have. Why carve and/or "paint" your beautiful skin.

Not many intelligent, successful people would lower themselves to such nonsense.
 
I got my ears pierced when I was about 15, in the old way. When I was a teen any female who had a tattoo was considered a tramp.
 
To me (untattooed), It looks like faded junk. That attacking eagle, looked cool when you were 19. But now, at 50, it's a blue, indistinct mass, drooping from your arm. The colors fade. Your skin loosens. Your life changes. What was important to you at 23 is not what is important to you when your kids are 23. And the only place left on your body to commemorate your love for them is your left butt cheek. By know you know I don't like a body covered with them.
 
Many of them are just unattractive and if people are covered with them, how will they look years later.

I'd get sick of wearing the same necklace everyday, but changing tattoos is I guess possible but expensive and intensive.

I had my ears pierced at 13 then ended up with a total of 4 in each ear in my 20's. I never went through the cartilage.


A young woman at work has a piercing with a large stud between her upper lip and nose in the center and I think it's very unattractive. If she ever wants it out she will have a scar. A fad, I'm not sure but I don't really get it.
 
Never had any interest in tattoos. I do have pierced ears and love wearing earrings, got them when I was 13.
 
I did hear of a local chap here who had the word "LUDO" tattooed on his er, "member" --------

Under certain circumstances it read "LLANDUDNO"
 
Cultural I think. I have an extensive, intricate Asian dragon tattoo across my derrière. Done by a master. Free--in gratitude for helping his loved one. Took him a year to get me to accept it. Very elegant and understated.
 
When I was a teenager, my big sister got her ears pierced. She said that she could then buy more expensive earrings without fear of losing them.
 
NancyNGA said:
It must be generational, to some extent. :confused: There is only one tattoo that I might have considered. They can tattoo a line on your eyelids to mimic mascara. Never could wear mascara, especially with contacts, never had the patience to apply it anyway. But it can make your eyes look prettier if you know how to do it.
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Nancy, they call that permanent eyeliner, which is actually a tattoo. I had my upper lids and under done about 10 years ago. It's the best money I've ever spent. I have blindfish eye lashes and fair skin, so my eyes just disappear when I wash off my eye makeup. I have black liner. She did a very thin line on top at first with a touch up included in the cost. I had it done a little thicker, pretty much like it would look with a thin eyeliner brush. It wasn't that uncomfortable having it done and the next day my kids were slightly puffy, but probably not noticeably unless you knew me. The part of putting on makeup that always took me the longest was eyeliner and now that's always done.

I pierced my own ears sometime in my 20's, don't recall exactly when.
 
Shall, photos would make a nice holiday gift for us, and Phil wouldn't mind, for they would be in the spirit of the season...
 
It is not for some lewd interest, I, and I am sure that I speak for others, would like to admire the art...
 
Shalimar said:
Cultural I think. I have an extensive, intricate Asian dragon tattoo across my derrière. Done by a master. Free--in gratitude for helping his loved one. Took him a year to get me to accept it. Very elegant and understated.
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I have a very tiny blue bird with a rose in it's beak on my ankle.. Don't love it but I don't hate it... I just wanted to see what getting a tat felt like. I had it done when I was in my mid 40's.. A bucket list thing I guess.. I won't get another.
 
Shall, how can we persuade you? After all, art should be shared. And, QS, you need not bother, but thanks anyway...
 
Well she should, in the interest of art lovers everywhere...
 

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