How do you feel about tattooed people?

And tattoos can be a good indicator.

If someone has Budweiser tattooed on their forearm I assume two things:
1. He likes (*)(*)(*)(*)ty beer.
2. We won't be talking about volunteerism.

 

Possibly, for some or indeed many, but perhaps the response that is usually being sought is 'ooh, that's a nice piercing/tattoo' from friends and other people who have/like piercings/tattoos!

 

It's certainly something to think long and hard about - likewise my daughter took her time and took lots of advice before getting a tattoo, and has done each time she has done it. She now has 3 or 4, and each one is individual and has a particular personal significance to her (as well as being carefully and artistically designed and thought through). Tattoos done on the spur of the moment while drunk are unlikely to be good ones, or ones that the wearer remains happy with for long. In fact, no decent tattoo artist will ever tattoo someone that they believe to be under the influence of alcohol, and any decent tattoo artist will take time to talk to the person about designs and motivation and so on before ever getting near to their skin - sadly not all tattoo artists are decent, of course.

 

These days people get tattoos because they want to show themselves to be rebels and individualistic. The problem is that everyone is doing it so in reality they are just conforming to another societal norm.

As for my personal thoughts, I think small well placed ones can be sexy but when girls get the tattoo sleaves or the tramp stamp on the back I just think she is someone with really horrible judgement. The grossest thing is having to see older people especially women running around still proudly displaying their faded sagging tattoos. I don't think they realize how disgusting they look.

People also have a tendency to end up with a collection of completely mismatched tattoos that instead of complementing each other seem to clash. They will have some mono colored tattoos mixed in with some multi colored tattoos and the themes and even the styles will be all over the place. It looks like they lost a bunch of bets of they spent an entire month getting hammered and picking random tattoos out of a book by throwing darts at it.

 

the rebel thing was real back 20 or more years ago, it's so mainstream now its become fashion...

displaying sagging skin is unsightly with or without tattoos...inks have evolved as has application technique, fadding isnt the issue it was in the past...a well done sleeve can be very attractive...the "tramp" stamp is an undeserved label, the lower back is a very good and discreet location for tatoos on women...

yeah thats what I find disturbing and what I impressed on my daughters, composition is crucial, unless they're prepared to pay significant amount for removal get it right the first time...

 

Good point, before my girls got their tattoos we researched the artists and their work, and visited their parlors to get a sense of their professionalism..

 

People with visible tattoos have a harder time getting jobs, much less good jobs, than those without.

http://www.economist.com/news/unite...pular-though-few-employers-are-keen-ink-blots

 

a lot of that is because the people doing the hiring are from an older demographic and apply their prejudices on to the younger tattooed generation...when I was young the prejudice was long hair (on men)...

Tattoo removal has gone up 440% in the last decade largely because of the surge in tattoo popularity a market for removal developed...and also because removal has become easier...

 

I don't care about tattoos one way or the other, but I would never have one on my body. First and foremost, no matter how careful the "artist" is, there's always the danger of getting hepatitis in the process of injecting this ink into your body. That alone would keep me from ever even thinking about getting a tat. Hepatitis-C is incurable!

One thing I've observed about most people with tattoos is that they quite honestly look like hell! Maybe that's part of the "appeal". The women are as bad (or worse) than the men. They mostly look like a bunch slovenly-dressed, unkempt, gutter-snipes. I'm not saying that everybody has to do around in formal attire, but most of these people neglect their personal hygiene (putting it as politely as I can), and they often have visible filth of one kind of another on their bodies or clothes, and, often they smell bad, either clothes, body, or breath. They also almost always seem to be economic bottom-feeders, without "a pot or a window", living on welfare of one kind or another. You see them wandering around in the middle of the day when most younger people would be working, doing nothing but just hanging out, smoking, "shopping", and mostly just wasting time (theirs, and other people's). The thing that is always so surprising to me is that they look like total bust-outs, living off government handouts, and yet they have the hundreds of dollars required to get tattoos, and those are not cheap! It says a LOT about a person's priorities in life....

That said, I also know one guy (about 30 years old), who's totally clean-cut, immaculate in appearance, and who is a dental surgical assistant of excellent quality. He has a "panel" on his arms up to his shoulders, but he keeps them covered at work with long sleeve shirts and his surgery gown. I can tell from his descriptions of products and things he owns that he makes good money, and he aspires to become a full-fledged dental surgeon himself one day, which is obviously beyond the capability of the kind of individual I described at the beginning of this post.

 

Same here. Solution? Cut my hair for a job.

"the people doing the hiring are from an older demographic and apply their prejudices". Correct. The word "prejudices" being defined as proper business ettiquette. Don't want to scare off the customers with this guy, right?

 

YUP! I'm free to find them a stupid waste of money and very distasteful....

 

Old tattooed people showing enough flesh to expose their tattoos, is much more prevalent in Florida than in most states, and especially than in Canada.

 

Not sure what the enlisted standard in the Navy is, but the officer standard for tattoos is that tattoos are only allowed on areas that are covered by the standard PT uniform--athletic shorts, T-shirt, socks and shoes.

 

Poor people that get tattoos instead of paying bills or saving money irritate me. But, like I've always said, less people for my kids to have to compete with later in life.

 

Looking at the topics of your threads- I think you spend a lot of time judging people on how they look to you.

 

I never cut my my hair to get a job and wouldn't work for anyone who made that a requirement...their hiring prejudices reflect their flawed character as much as the person in the photo...my hiring requirement are being clean and polite, respectful ...the man in the picture would fail on the message on his face, he's telling everyone hes not respectful...a facial tattoo alone wouldn't prevent me from hiring someone, its the message behond it...

 

Your choice as it is the people running businesses to choose whom they hire.

 

Which does that speak more negatively about... the tattooed or the employer?

http://www.economist.com/news/unite...pular-though-few-employers-are-keen-ink-blots

My problem here is that the article does not provide a link to said "empirical studies", and secondly social views change over time so if the studies are old then I would question the validity in reference to America in 2014.

 

Why does it have to be negative? It is what it is. The tattooist made a decision on what to do with their own body and the businessman/woman made a decision on how best to run their own business. I fail to see the problem.

Sure social views change over time. What shouldn't change is a person's right to do what they like with their own body or a private owner with their own house or business.

Let's be clear here. This isn't about someone who was born with a tattoo like a person who is born of a particular race, gender or sexual persuasion. We're talking about freedom to choose. My advice is to be careful about demanding others accept the choices made by yourself. One done, that precedence could easily be applied in reverse.

 

when you open that door you find all types of bigoted racists...that was the reasoning I heard back in the day when hair was the issue, and invariably those people didn't hire coloured people or women either...it goes beyond good grooming...

 

yes exactly my point, I recall not long ago women not being hired because they had a facial piercing, now its common...the problem often lies with the employer not the employee or clients...obviously there those like in the photo that have an anti social agenda but they're the minority, I see police and fireman with tattoos on a regular basis and it's a safe bet the vast majority are respectable citizens...

 

Invariably, some of those who hated "the Man" 50 years ago still carry that hatred and bigotry regardless of changes in our society.

 

An otherwise attractive Russian woman, meets a man, a tattoo artist, and within 24 hours of meeting him after establishing an on-line friendship...she has him tattoo his name on her face. Basically mutilating an otherwise very pretty face.. I don't understand this, I look at it as a form of mental illness quite frankly.

 

so if someone does something you dont understand its a mental illness?..
how about this woman, mentally ill or cultural? the russian woman is still attractive...

 

Having a tattoo doesn't in itself indicate mental illness, of course, but I'll admit that tattooing someone's name on your face after only knowing them for a day might indicate some sort of issue in that direction (or certainly a lack of considered judgement)!

Still, I guess it's a personal choice, and if she's happy with it who am I to say she's 'wrong'?!