The Craze Has Gone Too Far!

[fearnoevil2005]

I'm hooked on Miami Ink on TLC =P ... and there's another one on channel 31, can't remember what it's called right now. Anyhow, aside from the 'chic' factor, people who get tatoos tend to be driven by emotions. The physical pain that they endure in the procedure seems to be therapeutic because it's somehow balanced with the emotion pain they're going through. The same phenomenon can be seen in teenage girls cutting themselves.


BTW, I'm really Dr. Phil =P

 

[tboy]

LMMFAO, ass antlers, that's the best! Anyhow, bella, et al, to each his or her own and I support your decision to adorne your body anyhow you see fit. What I don't agree with however is those that "are following the herd..." I know tats have become very commonplace these days are the stigma is going (but it is NOT gone completely) but unfortunately there are those out there who just don't have the good taste (or sense) to think long and hard about what they are doing.

I know for one thing, there are MANY companies out there who would not, ever, under penalty of a lawsuit even, allow anyone in their office with visible tats....

I guess what really turned me off is this eg: I met someone through lavalife (when they were just telepersonals). When I saw her she was really cute, just my kind of chick. She was tiny, about 100 lbs soaking wet and about 5 3. Even after talking with her in person etc things were starting to happen. I mean we clicked. Please note that she had already told me she had a tat of a squirrel on her left boob. I thought, hey a squirrel, that's probably really cute.

Anyhow, she was wearing this nice white blouse, kind of like a man's button down and after a while she says, wanna see my squirrel (I kept my smartass comments to myself for once lol) anyhow I say sure, I'd love to (thinking I'm about to see this one inche high cute little bastard on her boob...well, she peels back the shirt and WHAMMM this frickin thing is about 12" high, and goes from below her a cup to just below her collarbone and looks like one of those dumb stickers hunters put on the back of their pickup trucks. It is the fucking UGLIEST thing I've ever seen....I mean, this thing looked like she went to crappy tire, bought one of those stickers and took it to the tat shop.

ANyhow, I tried to look past this...and after a couple of dates we were getting romantic....but I tell you, When I was on top, looking down at this cutie, all I could see was this monstrosity.....sorry, but that totally killed it for me...I never saw her after that.

Another example: I was dating this other girl (funny, now that I think about it they looked very similar). She had her first husband's name on her arm in block letters and just below that, her sons (something like JACK and JACK JR). that did it for me too.....I said to her: you couldn't have put it over your pubic bone so when I was going down on you I saw your husband's name?

DUMB dumb dumb DUMB to put someone's name on your body...

Anyhow fear, that other one's called Inked and it's the one in Ceasar's Palace in Vegas right? I've watched a few of those shows and I agree, if the tat means something special, like to commemorate the your child's beating cancer, or friends you've lost in war or like the one for his buddies that died on 9/11. I agree....but I really wish these tat artists would make sure these people know what they're doing and prevent them from doing something beyond good taste.....

 

[Bella6969]

Yep i agree. Like i said , i have some i am proud of and others that
i shake my head ,what was i thinking .
the names are special to me ,family etc...
but the big one on one of my arms is going and they want like 5grand to take it off! pretty brutal considering i only paid 100bucks for it

 

[Bella6969]

PS........... a squirrel LMAO

 

[fearnoevil2005]

Anyhow fear, that other one's called Inked and it's the one in Ceasar's Palace in Vegas right? I've watched a few of those shows and I agree, if the tat means something special, like to commemorate the your child's beating cancer, or friends you've lost in war or like the one for his buddies that died on 9/11. I agree....but I really wish these tat artists would make sure these people know what they're doing and prevent them from doing something beyond good taste.....

Inked, that's it. Not sure if she's still on the show but that Monica chick is pretty hot...beats Katz from Miami Ink hands down.

 

[tboy]

PS........... a squirrel LMAO

I can't friggen believe it.. that is just too funny.....

BTW bella, we never met but you are one gorgeous lady, body adornement is something you really don't need

 

[Bella6969]

Thanks Babe

 

[Oil Please]

If there large tats there a turn off for me!

 

[Edifice]

If there large tats there a turn off for me!

Agree. I don't mind at least one small tattoo on a woman's body but those big ones that cover the entire backside or a big one on their belly is just a turn off for me.

 

[deep_blue]

Got another one for you...

Another commonly used name for lower back tattoos, in addition to "Santa Monica Licence Plates" and "Ass Antlers" (good ones, its funny that I never heard of them) is the "Tramp Stamp". I'd say 10-20% of the women who have these actually look sexy with them, in time that percentage will be 0. I suggest in the future that they cover up, so many of us in our older age will not have to be constantly subject to seeing saggy tats in public.

 

[james t kirk]

Tattoos on women are a big time turn off, especially if it is more than one or large.

What the fuck they were thinking at the time is beyond me. I remember reading a column in the Globe and Mail once about women who regretted getting tattoos. They were interviewing this one woman, early 30's, who had a tattoo done on her upper arm while she was on vacation in Mexico, or something like that. She said that she started to have slight regrets about 2 or 3 days later and eventually, she became very self conscious of it. In fact, she was taking steps to have it removed.

If you want to be artistic and all, I really for the life of me can not understand why you wouldn't just just the removable kind that kids use. That way, if you wanted to remove it, you just WASH it it off. Seriously. You could have a different tattoo for whatever mood you were in, whenever you were in it. Or not.

I think I should open a chain of tattoo removal parlours actually. They will undoubtedly become more and more popular.

 

[Svend]

Here's one way to remove ass antlers that you regret.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/157806/tatoo_remover/

 

[tboy]

LOL svend, that was funny....

I agree about the temp tats, and if you want something that would only last a couple of months, go for a henna tattoo. I was really into it a few years ago and did some pretty amazing things. THen in about a week or two (depending on skin tone) they're gone, or can be reapplied if desired.

 

[healer677]

Tats are a funny thing though and there seems to be a double standard regarding them.

I have tats, several actually but none of them are visible and thankfully I do not have the arm bar variety.lol. But my tats are very symbolic of a few things -I have a "career" tat, two that symbolizes my religious affiliation and a small Canadian flag tat. For me all my tags are sybolic and for the most part are enjoyed only by me and my siginificant other.

For women though -hmmmm....to be honest, most of the tattos I've seen are poorly done, inappropriately places and really put there without any thought of long term consequences. My favorite are the sun tats on women's navels. God forbid that woman gets pregnant -that sun will supernova into something of gargantuan proportions.

 

[Terbevore]

Tattoos Are Bad news..........

I must confess I have some strong opinions regarding tattoos. I don’t like them----period.

When a girl talks to me about tattoos or tells me she is considering getting one or more of them, I have a standard reply. I ask: “ How many influential women, such as lawyers, doctors, scientists, basically any women with brains and power, do you know that have tattoos”? Not many when you look around. My observation is that most women who sport these things are not the “movers and shakers” of tomorrow. They are slaves to peer pressure and the zeitgeist of pop-culture. It might be interesting to see if the number of tattoos a woman has on her body is inversely proportional to IQ. My guess is that there would be a statistically significant correlation.

 

[yoniluvrca]

I liked the Vince Vaughn line from "The Wedding Crashers"-"tattoo on the lower back-might as well be a bulls eye"

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/wedding_crashers/twc_apple_480.html

about half way through the clip.

I am also not a huge fan of tats' but I do find the 'ass antlers' kind of sexy on a certain type of young lady. I think the perceived slutty-ness factor is at play here.

A female friend of mine though had a small tat applied one day after a three day X & booze binge. Just a small tat on her ankle she thought. Unfortunately it was cheap, poor artist, something to do with her body chemistry? Who knows? Within a couple of years it started to run & blur. Ten years later it was a barely recognizable blob of blackish-brown. She had also "grown-up" and now had a husband who expected her to attend business functions with him and anything with exposed ankles was impossible for her to wear. So she started to have the removal process. Several thousand dollars later it is still sort of there but, more or less, gone. Not a huge deal but my friend has said to me that she often kicks herself for that drug&alcohol induced decision.

I think though that people who are really into tats generally date other people who have tats. So no problem there. It seems to be sort of an outlaw thing. I am just glad that I made it through my heavy rebellion stage with no ink.

 

[jp61]

DUMB dumb dumb DUMB to put someone's name on your body...

I heard that when Johnny Depp was dating Winona Ryder that he had a tat done on his arm that read "Winona Forever"

.... of course when they broke up, Johnny had it changed to "Wino Fever"

 

[la venganza]

My favorite are the sun tats on women's navels. God forbid that woman gets pregnant -that sun will supernova into something of gargantuan proportions.

When a girl has a tattoo on their stomach or surrounding their navel (I have not noticed any guys with one there lol), all I can do is shake my head. I have seen girls that are beautiful, that go and ruin an otherwise perfect stomach by putting a tat’ around their navel!

 

[RemyMartin]

I must confess I have some strong opinions regarding tattoos. I don’t like them----period.

When a girl talks to me about tattoos or tells me she is considering getting one or more of them, I have a standard reply. I ask: “ How many influential women, such as lawyers, doctors, scientists, basically any women with brains and power, do you know that have tattoos”? Not many when you look around. My observation is that most women who sport these things are not the “movers and shakers” of tomorrow. They are slaves to peer pressure and the zeitgeist of pop-culture. It might be interesting to see if the number of tattoos a woman has on her body is inversely proportional to IQ. My guess is that there would be a statistically significant correlation.

does the same apply to men?

 

[goodtime]

I notice gals from 'Proud prov' of MB, particularly Winterpeg are hooked on it. Some of their tat shops are pretty scary.

Came across a bunch tat shops off seedy portion of St. Cath in Montreal. Good to see the artists themselves sport few tasteful tats, not walking billboards.

As old as original sin, tattooing has existed in all cultures on both sexes for millenia.
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Standard, fadish tatoos (large outlined cross, "Celtic" armband, Chinese characters) are signs of a boring, uncreative person. How embarassing it must be to spot your same tattoo on somebody else. But a unique design, graphic or floral, that follows the curves of a womans body: sublime, and can lead to all sorts of erotic fun. It takes a confident and creative woman to recognize and get such a tattoo, and in my limited experience, usually she's sexually awesome. Something to do with confident body image I guess.

Big in few Asian cultures, highly desired, if done right. Not my preference but seen some really elabate 1 of a kind art.

I pref skin that are milky smooth.