Tattoos are so f***ing ugly

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Who else agrees with me? It ruins the natural appearance of your body, makes it look like someone took a big s*** on your arm, gives you a low-class trashy appearance, hurts like hell to get one, looks all wrinkly and distorted when you get older, and can't be removed (without extreme pain), and still leaves a mark when you try. Why on earth do people get these things?

I disagree, granted there are certainly trashy tattoos but over all I certainly see it as an art form, most tattoo artists take pride in their work and create some really cool looking stuff. And people get them for various reasons, some people enjoy the sensation of getting tattoos. I myself don't have any but my brother and my sister both do and they certainly aren't trashy tattoos.

I partially agree with you. I mostly dislike them because of how trendy and unoriginal most I see are. A lot of tattoos I see look like an anti-shoplifting ink tag exploded on them. Some tattoos are cool, but I prefer to express myself in other ways that aren't permanent. Tattoos are also a good way for the government to easily identify people, which I don't like.

So don't get one if you don't like them. It's that simple.

What I don't understand is people taking issue with what someone else does with their own body. It's not on you, it's not your body, why do you care so much? If you don't like it, don't look. And maybe stop being so judgemental of things you don't understand, because they obviously do appeal to a LOT of other people. You do you, and let other people do their own thing. No need to get so worked up over other people's bodies and choices.

I disagree. Can't put it any better than wilburforce has really.

I do dislike how tattoos are beginning to be seen as wealth these days as some cost hundreds, a full sleeve can come to a grand or more depending on which tattoo artist you've gone with. The more well known/talented usually the more expensive. So you have newbie tattoo artists charging a fortune for something pretty crappy.

I have a buddy who is a talented tattoo artist. I also guess i could have been a tattoo artist, if it had been my calling.
Funny thing is that i have no tattoos, even though my mate offered to give me a free one and discounts on big ones.

I know, free ones why not? but i am still a bit of a weebio (foreigner aspiring to be japanese, although in my case more so because i am into martial arts but also because I do respect what I know of their culture).

The Japanese still regard tattoo's as associated with the criminal class and it was their culture to use tattoo to distinguish between good people and people who were known criminals convicted with bad crimes such as rape, theft, murder etc.

From the little that i understand of Japan and Japanese culture, there are still places that people with tattoo's are forbidden, such as on many of the nice beaches in Japan.

Also, if you want to marry Japanese woman, the Japanese family, if they come from noble heritage may forbid it. I mean, goodness, i think that it is hard enough to be accepted by the japanese even with out extra obstacles, unless you are absolutely amazing at one of the purely Japanese arts such as Judo, Kyudo or Sumi-o etc.

Still, I have no major problem with tattoos. I just personally spend my money on things i need more. Which, as i am into music and music studios, is always music studio stuff. And i would more likely pay for a holiday to Japan than for a tattoo if i had to make a choice...

One thing that i do find funny about tattoo's is that because they are so fashionable now, and that they are associated with career criminal stereotypes, that you now get young weedy looking lads with pseudo gangster tattoos all over them, including on their throats and their knuckles.

Such tattoo's used to be only used by people who really were hardened criminals or fighters. Perhaps champion boxers, guys who had been in the armed forces all there lives or people who had done some serious crime in their time, such as robbing banks or working as an enforcer.

To see 16 or 18 year olds, fresh out of school, walking around in the small sheltered island that i live, and acting as if they were these tough real life gangsters just makes me laugh.

This phenomena did start me thinking that the reason the media and the entertainment industry made tattoos so popular is so that the real dangerous criminals could then walk around undetected, easy, in the same way a lot of the Islamic terrorists walk around undetected because of the hipster fashion of having big Islamic style beards and short hair. (not that i have anything against Islam or Gangsterism, I am against needless terror).

So, yere. Tattoo's, what ever floats your boat, as long as the tattoos dont turn you into a nob. As personally, I dont like nobs. And there are plenty of those around, some with tattoos. (love / hate....)

Oh. I think it is always a good idea to think hard before getting a tattoo, as it is permanent and not just a biro doodle. Getting a tattoo just cause everyone else is doing it is a bit dumb. No objection, but just wont judge the idea as particularly intelligent.

I'm not a fan of tattoo's so tend not to date people with them. Personal preference. It doesn't mean I don't respect and befriend people who do though. I know my friend got one to represent her father when he passed away. I wouldn't do the same as for similar reasons I have no pain tolerance and that they don't look attractive when you get older. That is our own choices though.

Tattoos usually look better when they're not on skin.

It depends on its location and the artist's skill.

I'm not a huge fan of tattoos, but occasionally, I'll meet someone whose overall style they complement.

I'm not sure I'd ever want to get a tattoo. I've seen some nice ones, but I'm just not sure what I would write or draw onto myself that I wouldn't end up regretting later on. I'm very fickle, and a lot of things I've enjoyed over the years have become things I've ended up hating.

Some are, some aren't. Personally I would find it hard to pick something so permanent, a bad tattoo isn't something so easily fixed. Very expensive and if it's visible then people will judge you for it.

I hate needles and wouldn't want something on my body that I'd have to live with forever.

I have seen books about tattoo art at the library where I work, and some of them are ugly in the extreme.

The most unusual tattoo I've seen is Janko Tipsarevic's tattoo of "Beauty will save the world," in Japanese!

Probably the ugliest one among the tennis players is Stan Wawrinka's quote by Samuel Beckett-one of the most depressing, most boring authors on earth! Fits Stan's personality perfectly!