Female Tattoos

[Rebel]

I don't like'em, but I could get used to this:

[SaintLouieWoman]

I don't much like tattoos on anyone. Male or female. Worse on females.

Agreed. It was a big deal for me to get my ears pierced, took me a long time to get up the courage to get it done. I'm not in for unnecessary pain.

[debk]

I was burned on the left side of my body, within minutes of being born, and ended up with bone deep burns on outside of my left arm. Between the skin graft sites from trying to repair my arm, and other scars from car accident...voluntarily marking up my body more, with something almost as permanent, has always seemed incredibly stupid to me. Most I have ever done, is pierce my ears at 17 and I only have a single hole in each ear.

I have gotten henna tattoos a couple of times while on vacation in Key West. A seahorse on my ankle, and a small dolphin just above my bikini inside my hipbone. They were fun, and best of all were gone within a couple of weeks.

Have always wondered when girls who have never had children, get tattoos somewhere that's going to stretch out when pregnant....what the tattoo will look like afterwards. Especially if it's a big tattoo. Do they go back into shape and still look good?   

[vesta111]

I love tats.    Goes back to my dad having tats and today I wonder if some were masonic symbols???

Question is why humans all over the world have placed symbols on their body. [ sort off off topic, why do Mormon males wear underware with strange symbols on them??]

We humans crave to be individuals among the billions of other people on our planet.  I watch the news with films of the Chinese army, the Korean army marching and by golly everyone looks the same.  Everyone is pure blood, no mixed blood all 100% their race and I feel sad.

Those that choose to break through and mark their body to differentiate themselves from others, to speak to the world that they are not all white/black rats in a cage, they are individuals and not like anyone else on earth is to rebel against the conformists that only feel comfortable when they know how to control people, look the same think the same and easy to control.

Like that one black sheep in a flock of white sheep, that is the one you notice.

Me I have 2 small tats over a full armband of red, orange, black and yellow, 4 inches above my elbow and can be covered or shown at my wish.     When I attend a fancy dancy affair and want to wear short sleeves I use a glitter pen to cover the tats and few people know they are real.

This is not counter culture, this is an act of humans from time started to express our religion, our tribe, with the blow back that we are all different and not all faceless, mindless animals.        

[Wineslob]

Small, out-of-the-way ones that are meant for only one person's viewing pleasure are alright.

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[Ralph Wiggum]

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[debk]

This is not counter culture, this is an act of humans from time started to express our religion, our tribe, with the blow back that we are all different and not all faceless, mindless animals.        

My son has always been one of those kids who "walked to the beat of a different drum", and still does as he approaches 30.

He was almost 22 when he went to Navy boot camp, and did not have any tattoos, though he did have piercings. 4 are closed up but he still wears a small black hoop in each ear.

He got 5 while in...and all mean something to him and none can be seen due to Navy requirements, unless he has shorts on or very short sleeves or shirtless. Three are way up on his upper right arm. His smallest - about the size of a silver dollar is a green shamrock (his first) because he's part Irish, and an avid Celtics/RedSox fan, a compass like what would be found on an antique map, 2 others that he designed himself, the largest of those three is maybe 4-5 inches across and it's on his back near the right shoulder, and he has a turtle on his right calf that he got after he became a "Shellback". If he has on a tee-shirt and raises his arm up, so that the sleeve goes back, the shamrock can be seen and the lower part of the compass, but none of the others. He keeps saying he's going to get more, but hasn't.

His new thing is letting his hair grow. He's never had long hair, or more than a couple of inches long cause it's thick and kind of wavy and he didn't like it. Now that he's growing it out, it's curly like it was when he was a toddler. I've been nagging at him to cut it, but he wants let it grow long and donate it to "Locks of Love". Stopped my nagging in a heartbeat...which he knew it would. Though I do wonder how he will do with all that hair when the temp hits 90 and the humidity is right up there too.....

[CatholicCrusader]

Do you like seeing women's tattoos? If so, big tattoos or little ones?

I voted no.

[IassaFTots]

If you see mine, I really really REALLY like you.   

[shadeaux]

 

I have none, my husband has none.

My oldest has a superman symbol and a few others, my youngest has his initials.  I allowed him to have that instead of a graduation ring. I remarked just yesterday how good it still looked after all these years.

They both have pierced ears but had to do them when they reached 18.  My husband did not believe that to be a manly thing and said they could do it while at home if they agreed to wear dresses to school.

My husband also frowns on excessive body art and piercings in his work world. He doesn't consider that a plus when he interviews for job openings. He's not against them. He just feels they should be covered.

My niece thinks her body is a color book.  She can't understand why anyone looks at her funny. Yeah, she's dumb.

[Chris_]

My niece thinks her body is a color book.  She can't understand why anyone looks at her funny. Yeah, she's dumb.

[debk]

My husband also frowns on excessive body art and piercings in his work world. He doesn't consider that a plus when he interviews for job openings. He's not against them. He just feels they should be covered.

My niece thinks her body is a color book.  She can't understand why anyone looks at her funny. Yeah, she's dumb.

  Had to laugh at the "body is a color book" comment. Such an appropriate description of what some of these kids do to their bodies.

I want to know how they can afford to pay for all the tatooing. Spme of them are walking around with a flipping fortune on their bodies!  

When my son told me how much just one of his cost....I said "have you lost your f'n mind spending that kind of money on a stupid tattoo?"!! And that was for a smaller one! He won't tell me what the biggest one cost...

[RightCoast]

...which would make her a perfect Friday night Date!!!!

Just kidding.

I'm a dad of two little girls. It's amazing how many of my opinions did a 180 as soon as the doctor said "It's a girl" 9 years ago.
 

 

[CatholicCrusader]

.....I have none, my husband has none.....

My advice: Keep it that way.

There's not many things uglier then when a tatood person gets real old and that stuff is sagging all over the place.

[shadeaux]

LOL, we're not tattoo people.  That time has long passed.

My niece's husband is a tattoo artist/meth head.   

He tattoos when he's without a job.

She sent me a picture once, after my mother passed away.  I about fell out of my chair when I saw what she did.

The whole arm, I mean from shoulder to wrist was not only a picture of my mother, her grandmother, but she added some crazy poem that made no sense.

She has her two kids pictured on her back.  She has a flowered sleeve on the other arm.  Hell, why stop there.  How about some clown makeup to go with the suit ?

I could not believe what she let her husband do.  Don't get me wrong, he's very talented but damn, put it in a book, not all over someone's body. 

She's now been evicted from her house.  She wants to come "visit" me.  I don't think so.

[BlueStateSaint]

I have scars, and those are the only tattoos I'll ever have.  One on my chin, and one on my wrist (from the thumb joint reconstruction surgery almost 30 years ago).

[shadeaux]

I have stretch marks.   

My ex DIL has a tramp stamp, it's a big sun looking thing.

When she'd bend over I'd say I see your crack of dawn.  And boy was her dawn big.   

[Karin]

It's very big around here for women to have one on the outside of the calf.  Even stout, portly, middle-aged women.  Not for me. 

I could totally love a henna tattoo, in the middle of summer.  I got a dolphin like that once, and it was fun.. then it goes away. 

My sister got a very tasteful sunflower at the tummy bikini line, only about the size of a nickel.  It's cute. 

[CatholicCrusader]

LOL, we're not tattoo people.  That time has long passed......

LOL. Sorry. I didn't mean "tattoo people" like some circus thing, I meant tatooed people (past tense) as in people who have gotten tattoos.

[Eupher]

No tattoos. Period. No bolts in my nose, eyebrows, or hoops in any ear.

If God would've wanted me to have tats or any of that other shit, he would've brought in the world that way.

It's my impression that people who get the really outrageous cover-the-entire-body tattoos are missing something in their pathetic, miserable lives or, alternatively, are looking for acceptance where there wasn't any.

Either that or they just want to shock the living hell out of normal people. 

[shadeaux]

LOL. Sorry. I didn't mean "tattoo people" like some circus thing, I meant tatooed people (past tense) as in people who have gotten tattoos.

LOL, I didn't either.  I have nothing against them, I just won't have one.

[seahorse513]

I am almost scared to say this...I have three. All are relatively small and very feminine. A bird of paradise on my right calf, a half armband on my right bicep, and a seahorse on the left side of my chest. All can be covered when need be.
I draw the line at body piercings except the ears. With me with tattoos depends on the woman, size, and subject....

[jtyangel]

No tattoos. Period. No bolts in my nose, eyebrows, or hoops in any ear.

If God would've wanted me to have tats or any of that other shit, he would've brought in the world that way.

It's my impression that people who get the really outrageous cover-the-entire-body tattoos are missing something in their pathetic, miserable lives or, alternatively, are looking for acceptance where there wasn't any.

Either that or they just want to shock the living hell out of normal people. 

He brought you into the world naked too...just sayin

[jtyangel]

I am almost scared to say this...I have three. All are relatively small and very feminine. A bird of paradise on my right calf, a half armband on my right bicep, and a seahorse on the left side of my chest. All can be covered when need be.
I draw the line at body piercings except the ears. With me with tattoos depends on the woman, size, and subject....

why would you be scared to say it? Is your having a tattoo and wanting one any less valid a choice then the people here who don't like them? REminds me of the thread on Kim Kardashian and how all women with hourglass shapes are now unattractive cows just because some here don't like that ONE woman. Suddenly any person with those proportions was a cow or any such other names...I mean after all, we have to disavow and detach ourselves and make sure everyone else knows our sentiments Geez, can people say they don't like something without insulting other people who are perfectly normal who do like it or are a certain shape, etc? Pet peeve of mine, my mother is into making such ridiculous statements of displeasure as well.


as I've said before too, I have one as well. don't regret it and it still looks damn good almost 20 years later. It's in a place that isn't going to sag until I'm well into my 70's/80's...by then what's a sagging tattoo compared to all the other wrinkles, liver spots, etc on my body? Whose going to give a hoot about my saggy tattoo when I have all of nature's bodyart? 

[Eupher]

He brought you into the world naked too...just sayin

Well, my cummerbund and belt kept hanging up on my mother's junk, so God ix-nayed the whole clothing thing temporarily.

I remember being a little cold, too.