Girls with tattoos... yes or no?

[Sam Slater]

All in all? Girls should avoid having them done if possible.

I remember about 5 years ago women started having little Chinese symbols tattooed on their navels. They were small and looked kinda sexy in the summer with low waist jeans. 6 years on and they look pretty awful. You see, for women, tattoo's are mere fashion accessories........and fashion changes!

Remember the barbed wire around Pamela Anderson's bicep? Looked cool in the film, but these days? Awful right?

The Urdu/Punjabi writing on Beckham's arm is the same. Looked ok for the fist 6 months and loadsa guys followed suit. Looks dumb these days.

Tattoo styles change for -both sexes- with fashion, but tattoos are perminent, and thus should be avoided. Having spiky purple hair is expressive but changeable, tattoos aren't.

[strictlybroadband]

Caractacus wrote:

> Flame away if you want. This is my opinion, and last time I
> looked I was still entitled to express it.

That's a bit aggressive. I was only asking!

[Trumpton]

Do women who wear tattoos come to that decision freely and independently, or are they more likely to be "pressurised" by husband, boyfriend or partner?

The "culture" of wearing tattoos might be coming to an end as many who have them are now seeking their removal. As long as that process is not done on the NHS then well done I say.

[strictlybroadband]

Peter wrote:

> I was reading a while back that one of the growth industries
> just now is tattoo removal

That's probably because another growth industry is tattooing. !happy!

Blokes rarely had tattoos 20 years ago, and they were an exclusively working class fashion item, or associated with being at sea or in the military. I don't remember ever seeing a tattoo on a woman when I was a kid.

[Pervert]

It wasn't aimed at you, SBB. Sorry. I know some people get het up about the subject, though.

[MegaTon]

NO!

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Caractacus wrote:

> It wasn't aimed at you, SBB. Sorry. I know some people get het
> up about the subject, though.

Oops sorry - my misunderstanding. As you may have noticed I get my fair share of flames here. !happy!

My view is that any kind of body art, if done well, can be sexy. Something else the article says is: "31% of girls with tattoos are up for bisexual fun". There's some sense to that, when you think about it - people who are more liberated about their body in one way will also be more liberated about it in other ways.

There's an old prejudice about tattoos that has largely gone, but us older ones will remember. Given that they used to be only worn by the "lower classes", middle class people associate them with "rough" behaviour.

[strictlybroadband]

MegaTon wrote:

> NO!

Don't beat about the bush.

[Jonone]

How convenient that historically they've had a 'blind spot' to the institutionalized brutality of the public schools and believe that 'roughness' resides among the lower orders !

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Jonone wrote:

> How convenient that historically they've had a 'blind spot' to
> the institutionalized brutality of the public schools and
> believe that 'roughness' resides among the lower orders !

And declarations of war are always given in a nice, refined accent!