Today's Topic:
Tattoos
This weeks hot topic is tattoos because I just spent all evening (Sunday) watching my husband get one. I'm a little wishy-washy on tattoos depending on what they are, but if they're done right I think they're hot. What do you think? Are tattoos sexy, or trashy?
7 comments:
Trashy if overdone. I think few people can get away with loads or all over -- and what will they look like as you age? I think one or two tastefully done are nice. I've always wanted one but I know I'd be a wimp and chicken out at the door and I also know it's something I've got to live with so I've given it years of thought. It would have to be a nice design or maybe a dragon.
I've never thought of them looking more than attractive. I don't think of them as 'hot'.
For me at least it depends on the amount of tattoos and what the art is about. I have one tattoo that I've had for just a little over a year now. It's my author pen name and I had it done to symbolize my first e-book being published, because like my stories the tattoo will always be there. One thing that has always had me scratching ny head is the skulls tattoos. Maybe some people find the artwork cool but to me a skull represents death and why would I want that on my arm, leg,etc? I don't really mind a person with ink but I know so much of society rejects full body artwork. While I respect everyone's freedom to do as they wish the facial and full body tattoos are going a little far in my estimation. Course I know a lady who had her eyebrows tattooed permanently. lol
The #1 question asked of people with tattoos and I know from personal experience. Did it hurt? For me, no. But I hear if you get it on your foot, you're a goner. lol
I've been swearing I'm going to get a tattoo for 2 years. Just a small one, discreetly placed, where no one by my DH can see it.
Do I think they're hot? Depends. Small ones, placed just right, like a small one circling some man's navel, oh yeah baby!
Big, all the way down the arm, up the leg, over the face? No.
For me, with tattoos, less is best.
I love unadorned skin. It gets way too little credit. When I see a man with gorgeous musculature, I want to scream if it's covered in ink. Worse yet, I want to scream and run when those permadesigns began to wrinkle and pucker and sag into something resembling wet crepe paper patterned by a preschooler. Oh, UGH!
Some tats are quite artistic, I'll grant you that. Most, however, range from ordinary to amateurish and fade to a monochromatic blue wash in no time flat. And when people go overboard with them, or invest in lurid crap like pistons shooting out of a skull's eyesockets, or have dozens that are unrelated . . . then they are indeed trashy.
Far as I'm concerned, most tats are lizard-man territory, not Illustrated Man.
Yes and no.
I have one on my lower back (yes I have a tramp stamp!), but it took me many years to find something I liked. No fairies and flower for me!
I have to admit a fondness for upper arm tats, the type that cap the top of the arm (do they all it a partial sleeve?), and also some of the artistic sweeping across the back ones. But I've never been big into the whole comic/skulls/bimbo thing. Although I've seen a dragon of two that were interestingly done.
I can appreciate the art, and the perseverance of the person being tattooed, but all over tats aren't for me.
I enjoy tattoos on other people. Too many is kind of ehhhhh but a few are neat looking.
However, I'm a big wimp...so not tats for me. LOL.
Depends. There is such a thing as too many. Also, it depends on the tat. I say a pic of a very hot guy who had a heavy black tat over his shoulder and down his arm, around his bicep. I thought it was awful but maybe I wasn't at a good viewing angel.
There was a brief, very brief newspaper article about tats. Mainly a couple questions of 5 or 6 people. One of the girls had a huge sunburst above her breasts. The only way to hide that if you need to is with a turtleneck!
Tats need to mean something to the person wearing them. I'd like a dragon or butterfly wings across my back but there is no way it will happen. I'm just not sure I'll still want it in 5, 10 or 15 years. Better not to get it at all.
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