The most tattoos

[TippyThomas]

Just curious where everyone falls on this. I was actually surprised the number was that high for the US and others. I do not have a tattoo and I doubt that will change.

https://www.worldatlas.com/society/which-country-s-residents-have-the-most-tattoos.html



Added a poll for fun.

 

[prairie_girl]

Canada isn’t on the list, but I’m contributing three to our efforts lol

 

[TippyThomas]

Canada isn’t on the list, but I’m contributing three to our efforts lol

Added a poll. You should vote.

 

[Genie+]

I personally gave my husband a tattoo about 2 weeks after our first date. He thought it wouldn’t stay. I did repeatedly warn him it was permanent the whole time I was doing it. It’s still there, black as ever because I used Penguin Ink Fortunately we’re still together because it is a heart with my initials in it. We were young and drunk and I told him if we didn’t last at least my initials were a shape that his initials could easily tattoo over. I have one tattoo as well.

 

[adamreisinger]

I have 13, and that's if you count the forearm sleeve and two lower leg sleeves as one each (each of those has 8+ Disney characters). I have a couple more I'm thinking about too.

 

[_19disnA]

Have none and never understood the point of having them. Seems like many want to keep adding new ones and not sure I get that either. Number does seem high to me compared to the people I see in public with them.

 

[Moliphino]

I don't have any. Can't think of anything that I'd want on me permanently.

 

[Disneylover99]

Have none and never understood the point of having them. Seems like many want to keep adding new ones and not sure I get that either. Number does seem high to me compared to the people I see in public with them.

Plenty of people have tattoos on parts of their body that aren’t for public viewing. lol.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

A bunch of my college friends got ones later on in our university days. I had thought about one, but...

1. I went with a few friends to hold their hand during the process. That hand holding turned into a near bone crushing grip accompanied by a lot of crying. That hand pain would linger for a while.
2. The one I was considering would have been out of sight, but in an area that would have stretched during pregnancy and also something that would have required me to sit there with my pants down for hours with the artist. Letting it heal with our cold winters felt like it would also be a challenge... i.e. having to bundle up with a healing tattoo.
3. One of my friends got something similar to what I'd had in mind. After seeing the size and just the tone of it all, I really didn't want that on my body. I also didn't need anything trendy like the cutesy little things friends were getting on their ankles or shoulder blades.
4. The cost was also a huge turnoff. The price was fair for his reputation and the going rate, the guy did nice work, and his place was spotless...I just was a college kid with a limited budget trying to live within my means.

I have no regrets about never getting one. If I had gotten something smaller on my ankle like some friends, it would have been a challenge at work in my early days in corporate America. It's become one of those things that I fully support if others want them but it's just not the right thing for me.

 

[Cadiewampus]

Just two for me. One is around 8-10" tall (mermaid) and the other about 15" (pirate wench). Debating on another one next month (Rosie the riveter)

 

[Brian Noble]

I don't have any, because I can't think of something I would want permanently---I'm far too flighty!

The 46% number does not surprise me at all. Of my two kids, one has a tattoo while the other does not. Their mother also has one. We are hardly members of the counterculture.

 

[Toolulu22]

A bunch of my college friends got ones later on in our university days. I had thought about one, but...

1. I went with a few friends to hold their hand during the process. That hand holding turned into a near bone crushing grip accompanied by a lot of crying. That hand pain would linger for a while.
2. The one I was considering would have been out of sight, but in an area that would have stretched during pregnancy and also something that would have required me to sit there with my pants down for hours with the artist. Letting it heal with our cold winters felt like it would also be a challenge... i.e. having to bundle up with a healing tattoo.
3. One of my friends got something similar to what I'd had in mind. After seeing the size and just the tone of it all, I really didn't want that on my body. I also didn't need anything trendy like the cutesy little things friends were getting on their ankles or shoulder blades.
4. The cost was also a huge turnoff. The price was fair for his reputation and the going rate, the guy did nice work, and his place was spotless...I just was a college kid with a limited budget trying to live within my means.

I have no regrets about never getting one. If I had gotten something smaller on my ankle like some friends, it would have been a challenge at work in my early days in corporate America. It's become one of those things that I fully support if others want them but it's just not the right thing for me.

Many of my friends who got those trendy/cutesy tattoos during college days are now, or recently went through, the tedious and painful process of having them removed. My husband has one, I don’t plan on getting any. I do microblade my eyebrows though, which is sort of a semipermanent tattoo.

 

[drenalin'junkie]

Made it thru a Navy tour, college, commercial spearfishing , owning a construction company without them.
Had I got them, my dermatologist would have been destroying them from my careless exposure to the sun over the years. DW has one, a Pegasus.
Like any other cosmetic or cosmetic surgery, I don't judge.
People are free to adorn their bodies as they see fit.
I do have a pierced ear but rarely wear any jewelry.
I think it's cultural, the amount of money people spend on clothing or jewelry here often far exceeds the price of a skinful of tattoos.

 

[EACarlson]

Have none and never understood the point of having them. Seems like many want to keep adding new ones and not sure I get that either. Number does seem high to me compared to the people I see in public with them.

I have two and unless I'm at the pool, you'd never see them. I have two bear cubs on my chest, to represent my two kids and the fact we are bear clan. And I have a medicine wheel on my left upper arm. Was showing a colleague how small my glucose sensor is that's on my arm and they seemed shocked I had a tattoo on that arm also.

 

[Chirple]

I don't have any, but my friend's daughter has a full sleeve, a half sleeve, and more on her legs and other areas. She has used excellent artists. When my friend's husband passed away, she and her two daughters got symbolic tattoos placed in the same area of their bodies.

 

[Babs Johnson]

Four. Back below right shoulder. Chest above right pectoral. Right bicep. Left lower outer leg. All of them were from when I was in my early 40s.

 

[Living42Day]

None, and probably never will. I just don't care for them, but don't care if others choose to get them.

 

[tvguy]

None, and probably never will. I just don't care for them, but don't care if others choose to get them.

Same here.

 

[nene0182]

I have 4 with a few more planned eventually

 

[Kitty 34]

I do not have any tattoos but boy do I have a few scars that I could readily talk about.