Anyone else anti-tatoo?

[MELSMICE]

whatever your opinion on tattoos, I urge parents to NOT allow them on teens. they are permanent.
I allowed my sons to get their ears pierced, have crazy hair styles, dye their hair strange colors. my youngest BEGGED me let him have a tattoo. that is permanent.
I refused. (he was a drummer, and wanted drumsticks across his back).. boy, is he ever grateful to me now!!
but even if it had been something small, I would refuse.

earrings, hairstyle, etc. , can be changed.

now, I am not stating my opinion of tattoos one way or the other. I am saying that a person should be 18 years old to decide to put soemthing permanent on their body.

Along these same lines. I've always told my DD's to remember that piercings (earrings) can be removed, hairstyles & colors can be changed, but tattoos are permanent.

My youngest 2 (twins) will be 18 in August. I hope they think twice before they would decide to get a tattoo.

I know my one DD will probably be at the belly button piercing parlor on her 18th birthday..........I can only hope the tattoo parlor isn't her 2nd stop!

 

[sunnyday123]

Anytime I see someone with a visible tattoo, I think that there's someone who is going to have a rich dermatologist. Fast forward a number of years and just imagine all these 80 year olds with their tats!

I personally like one one or two guys! Must be the whole "bad boy" image, but I find some of them hot. I do think a lot of people don't think through what or why they are getting them ( why the heck do women have their name tattoed on the back of their neck??) and would regret those. But then I try not to judge people.

And really, we're not Jack LaLane. NONE of us are going to look good at 80, tattoed or not!

 

[JerseyJanice]

"Anti-tatoo"? I don't find them attractive, but I couldn't care less what strangers do to their bodies.

That said, I will never get one, and if my son or husband ever come home with one, they will be dead meat. I have raised my son to understand that they are huge mistakes and he'd better not even think about getting one. Hopefully, they'll be out of style by the time he's old enough to get one legally.

When I was growing up, only sailors or criminals got them. Certainly no "lady" ever got one, so I can say with a certain amount of relief that none of my close relatives have any tattoos. Well, blood relatives anyway. There are a couple of in-laws and a few cousins on my husband's side who have them, but no one related to me by blood has ever gotten one, and I think that's because of how we were brought up.

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

Personally I am not a fan of tattoos but DH loves them. He has 4 of them that are all hidden under clothes. He wants to get one more but I told him he's going to start looking like a coloring book!

 

[bananda]

i hate tacky tattoos.

i'm mainly just anti-pain and needles.

 

[lovephotography]

I am not a fan of tatoos..But I am not Anti-tatoo.

 

[LisaInNc]

I am not a fan. I would never ever get one. I don't judge people that have them but I don't like how they look.

When I met my DBF he was planing on getting a large one on his forearm. Had the appointment and everything. The subject came up and I voiced my opinion. He cancelled the appointment.

Still doesn't have the tatoo.

I do feel bad that he didn't do something he wanted because of me but I am so thankful he did!

Lisa

 

[Kimberly]

Recently on the island here I saw what looked like a 14 year old boy with several tattoos on his arms and chest. It seems that it's mostly a fad, but most fads aren't permanent, like these are...

I won't ever get a tattoo. I don't really feel the need to "tell a story" with some ink literally injected into my body.

 

[Saphire]

I don't like them at all. I think it is funny how you can tell the decade of a tatoo by what was 'hot' at the time. Guys from the 40's had girly poses on their forearms or military symbols. When woman first started getting them, it was the rose on the ankle. And of course the poplular 'tramp stamp' became fashionable a few years back.
It is not so much that the designs are bad, it is the fact that the ink is imbedded into the skin that just skeeves me out.

 

[Carly_Roach]

When I was growing up, only sailors or criminals got them. Certainly no "lady" ever got one, so I can say with a certain amount of relief that none of my close relatives have any tattoos. Well, blood relatives anyway. There are a couple of in-laws and a few cousins on my husband's side who have them, but no one related to me by blood has ever gotten one, and I think that's because of how we were brought up.

We must be around the same age because that's how I was brought up as well. Tattoos were seen as a behavior undertaken by the "lower" or base classes, of which we should not aspire to become. (What can I say? My grandparents were snobs)

In any case, the examples I had growing up stuck with me. If I dated a guy who later turned out to have a tattoo anywhere on his body, that relationship dried up. The only exception was DH who has an old military tattoo on one bicep. I guess my love for him outweighed my concern that the family wouldn't accept him (and the grandparents were dead - so that helped).

It took me a LOOOONG time to get used to that tattoo and he hasn't expressed ANY interest in decorating his body like that again. He says he got it when he was 18 and stupid, and he did it mostly because his buddies did. I asked him once when we were engaged if he wished he'd never done it and he kinda shrugged it off. He said there was nothing he could do about it so what would be the point of spending time thinking about it? But he would advise our son (if we had any) not to do it.

Tattoos are a permanent mark for a temporary condition. Example:

I have a friend who was married to a guy for six years before he left her. Two years into their marriage they made a design of both their names and got that design as a tattoo: his on his forearm, hers (much larger) on the small of her back. He left in 2007 and she's just started dating again. I have to wonder how the new man in her life will feel knowing that some other man's mark will be on his wife's body for the next 60 years?

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

I won't say that I'm anti-tattoo but I haven't yet seen one that I wanted to have myself. I also don't get why people cover their whole body in them.

At work our dress code is such that you can't have a visable tattoo or facial piercings (other than normal ear piercings). We currently have a job opening and I've had a couple girls come in that have lip/nose piercings and one had a tattoo on her neck that would be next to impossible to cover. We just put their resume's in the "don't call for an interview" pile. It's a shame too because one of them was really nice and had a good resume.

 

[declansdad]

I won't say that I'm anti-tattoo but I haven't yet seen one that I wanted to have myself. I also don't get why people cover their whole body in them.

At work our dress code is such that you can't have a visable tattoo or facial piercings (other than normal ear piercings). We currently have a job opening and I've had a couple girls come in that have lip/nose piercings and one had a tattoo on her neck that would be next to impossible to cover. We just put their resume's in the "don't call for an interview" pile. It's a shame too because one of them was really nice and had a good resume.

Too bad your company has such a close-minded view of what makes a good employee.

 

[Feralpeg]

Too bad your company has such a close-minded view of what makes a good employee.

Many companies feel this way...right or wrong. Disney is a perfect example. CM's cannot have any visible tattoos. My sister trained a really nice kid. He wanted to be a lifeguard at one of the water parks. He was really qualified for the position, but he had a tattoo. He ended up in merchandising at Downtown Disney because he had tattoos that needed a costume to cover. I know many companies that feel that tattoos do not project the image they want to project.

 

[Ciao Mickey]

Growing up, only the *rough* guys sported tattoos, along with sailors, truck drivers, bikers and mob members.

I would never get a tattoo. No one I associates with has one. I don't think less of someone who has one, I just think that they are a little *dumb* for getting one though.

What makes me laugh about some tats are when someone has their name tattooed on their body. Is that because they might forget who they are?

And why would you get a tattoo on a part of your body where you can't see it? Like on your back or shoulder? That makes no sense to me.

I hate seeing women in lovely evening gowns sporting tattoos. What were they thinking?

Another thing that makes me laugh is when I see someone who is past their prime getting one--it will not make you look younger or hipper to most other people--you will only be seen as desperate trying to hold on to your youth. Tattoos do not go well with age spots. Blah.

I do like the girl who is on LA Ink, formerly of Miami Ink. She does wonderful work and I do appreciate her artwork.

 

[Art 1]

Too bad your company has such a close-minded view of what makes a good employee.

That company that I own has the same close minded view, I have no problem finding good people who also look good. I would not even consider someone with visible tattoos or earrings in their face.

 

[robinb]

That company that I own has the same close minded view, I have no problem finding good people who also look good. I would not even consider someone with visible tattoos or earrings in their face.

I don't know if you mentioned it before, but what does your company do?

I guess I'm just immune to the whole tattoo thing since I live in a college town. I got over seeing service employees with multiple piercings, purple hair, and tattoos a LONG time ago. I think you might be hard pressed to find young people these days who don't have piercings and tattoos.

 

[Kimberly]

That company that I own has the same close minded view, I have no problem finding good people who also look good. I would not even consider someone with visible tattoos or earrings in their face.

As with mine. Pierced ears are ok, but visible tattoos? No way... unless you want to cover it up with makeup everyday.

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

Too bad your company has such a close-minded view of what makes a good employee.

I work for a bank. The majority of our customers are older, conservative people and we have to project a professional image. Unfortunately multiple facial piercings and tattoos aren't considered professional.

 

[DawnM]

I don't like them, but I am not anti.

The only time I was anti was on our recent trip to Williamsburg.....a 65 year old man had huge tatoos all over his legs and arms of nude women....and they were NOT tactful! Full frontal nudity all over the place.

My kids were on the bus to see that....it was disgusting.

Dawn

 

[Lauralee]

Too bad your company has such a close-minded view of what makes a good employee.

We own a company and have a no visible tattoos/facial piercings/ear gauges policy for our employees. The guys also have a no beards and no long hair policy. The service/tech guys wear a uniform with short-sleeved shirts and long pants.

We have NO problems finding highly qualified employees who comply with these rules.

It is what it is......sorry if this offends anybody, but it's business. Our customers are more comfortable with clean-cut, professional looking employees entering into their homes.