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To "Tat' or Not

blacklablover — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:05:24 GMT

I was reading some older posts about program hosts with visible tatoos. I"m older and my skin is thinning; small wounds leave unattractive discolorations. I now refer to them as my "mature tats" that are well earned. I'm glad, however, that they don't add insult to injury to existing tats.

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SharkE — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:07:20 GMT

Makes me sad to see what people do to themselves.

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Another new name Sue — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:09:03 GMT

Not sure what your last sentence means. Thin skin bruises easily, and the bruises are slow to heal. Very annoying. I don't care if people have tatoos or not but don't really understand their appeal.

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cheriere — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:14:59 GMT

I don't have any tattoos. When I was younger, most all of my friends got one on their ankles or lower back. I wanted one then, but never knew what on earth I would choose.

I'm so glad I never got any. I see the way my skin has changed. This was the reason my mom always told me not to get one.

They don't bother me on other people though. It's not my body, so I don't have to live with it.❤️

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deepwaterdotter — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:15:55 GMT

I'm such a 'chicken' when it comes to physical pain, so having a tattoo needle pierce my skin has never been a consideration.

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KKlim — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:21:50 GMT

I find them disgusting when I see them literally covering people.

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SoCal Bred — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:32:30 GMT

I'm with you @deepwaterdotter with the pain factor, I don't have any tats, never had the desire to get one. When I see the ink art on some of these entertainers from head to toe, I just shudder and can't imagine the pain they went through to achieve the look but it's your body and your business that's all that matters and all the best to you.

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Sooner — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:43:18 GMT

You wouldn't want to wear the same clothes every day the rest of your life, you work to remove any blemish you have, so why would you want a permanent picture on you?

I don't get it. It may be special today, but 20 years today how will you see it?

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781Florist — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:00:58 GMT

I find tattoos repulsive but as others have said..it's yur body and your choice. I will never understand the tats on the face or the neck.

A few years ago a comic on TV said "All neck tattoos should be the same. A simple script that says "So, I didn't get the job?"

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busymom22 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:18:13 GMT

Tattoos to me represent a level of impulsiveness that is not attractive. It's not like a blue mohawk that you can grow out and change. It's a trend that is permanent and looks awful as skin ages. Also, fun fact, the skin is technically an organ and your body constantly fights with an immune response toward the tattoo ink. No one knows how that affects the body long term, especially with these giant tattoo sleeves some people have. With all of the autoimmune disorders we see now I wouldn't want to chance it.

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Trinity11 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:26:05 GMT

Some of the nicest people I know have tats. In fact a physician that is responsible for saving my life has a sleeve of tats. I say live and let live. 🥰

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PamfromCT — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:35:32 GMT

@busymom22 I agree with everything you have said. if you chose to do research, anybody could see potential issues.

The purity of the ink, where traces might travel in your body, etc. are all issues. This is written up in at least one Dermatology journal I read, and I wonder why this is not being commonly discussed.

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Bri369 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:51:26 GMT

So many judgmental people.

I'm sure there's people you come across every day that have tattoos that you don't even see or know about. What people chose to do with their own bodies is their business.

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Stray — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:57:09 GMT

I like them if meaningful. Many ladies I know got small tattoos after surviving cancer. I always wanted one when I was younger but I saw older ladies with tattoos on the beach & it wasn’t pretty. I don’t care for large tattoos or covering a large area of the body with them but it’s a personal choice & just not for me. I don’t judge them if that’s their choice.

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LindaSal — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:31:23 GMT

@Trinity11 wrote:
Some of the nicest people I know have tats. In fact a physician that is responsible for saving my life has a sleeve of tats. I say live and let live. 🥰

Thank you @Trinity11 . Both my kids are millenials and are covered with tattoos. They are both successful, kind people. ITA, live and let live.

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DrakesMomma — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:37:32 GMT

I don't care for tattoos and don't have any.

My son got one when he finished college. I was disappointed.

I knew a man that got a large one on his back and had an allergic reaction to the ink and he ended up in ICU for a week. I would have though that would have been his very last tattoo but it wasn't.

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chlema — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:50:19 GMT

@LindaSal wrote:
@Trinity11 wrote:
Some of the nicest people I know have tats. In fact a physician that is responsible for saving my life has a sleeve of tats. I say live and let live. 🥰
Thank you @Trinity11 . Both my kids are millenials and are covered with tattoos. They are both successful, kind people. ITA, live and let live.

My DD started getting tattoos in her twenties. She is now 64. Tats (sleeves) on legs, arms, back, also couple of small piercings on side of face, chest and who knows what is under coverings. Honestly many are really beautiful. However it never stopped her in her career, now a VP at one of the largest banks in the US.

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walkingal — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:51:56 GMT

@Bri369 wrote:
So many judgmental people.

I'm sure there's people you come across every day that have tattoos that you don't even see or know about. What people chose to do with their own bodies is their business.

😴 zzZ

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AuntG — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:53:52 GMT

No desire. Have never seen an attractive tattoo.

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Cakers3 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:57:47 GMT

Lower back tats are affectionately known as tramp stamps.😳

I do not have any tats.

A tattoo does not determine any personality or how a person lives his/her life.

I cannot fathom why people get in such a state over them. They do not affect anyone else and this topic arises around here from time to time.

Their body, their choice.