Tattoos on older women

I think a beautiful girl in a lovely dress with tattoos awful😖my son has one I could have cried when I saw it. My dad had one on his arm and I thought it was just my dad. I just think women with them look rough. End of.

lavatory even!

I've seen some truly beautiful ones, always liked them on chaps but dread to think what I'd be sporting now if I'd had one done as a teen!

Cossy

Goodness, the judgement here is rampant!

Common, loathsome, horrible!

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Since people usually nowadays get covered head to foot, barely wear clothes that cover them up, I think people can have a view on whether they like them or not.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some fantastic artistic ones out there but they will be stuck with them for ever more.
Think of that Girls aloud singer with that 3D rose all over her bum.
I follow an Australian guy on YouTube, he's bought an old house in Japan. He’s absolutely covered. Even has a knife tattooed down the side of his face. His Japanese neighbours don’t like his tattoos ((because of the yakuza), but now they know him they really like him.
He’s a lovely lad after you get past all his etchings.

I think it’s an interesting topic.

Even young tots on holiday had those pretend stick on tattoos to be like their parents.
I guess it’s not going to go out of fashion anytime soon.

I think I'm most disappointed in the misogynistic comments more than anything on this thread

I think most people that are common know they are common and don't really care about it as much as the people commenting about it. Because they dance and drink and screw, because there's nothing else to do.

My daughter that had the tattoo years ago once picked up a photo of me in the 80’s, all big hair shoulder pads etc.
she really took the mickey out of me.

When she had finished I calmly said “ Isn’t it a good job I didn’t have to wear these clothes and have my hair like this forever, your tattoo is permanent”

That is the concern a permanent mark, it always makes me think of the Jews that were branded as they entered the concentration camps, they had to carry that with them forever.

JaneJudge

I think I'm most disappointed in the misogynistic comments more than anything on this thread

I think most people that are common know they are common and don't really care about it as much as the people commenting about it. Because they dance and drink and screw, because there's nothing else to do.

OK I'll see what I can do

I think people need to lighten up. Half the comments, I am sure, we’re tongue- in - cheek because who really gives a rat’s what people think these days ? If you think they look common or nasty you are totally entitled to your view and noone should judge you by that - it is what you believe and good for you.

NathanaelWest

I personally don't have tattoos. I never had the desire. My wife has a few dotted here and there. They still look good on her.

But these full sleeves, legs, chest, neck and everywhere else... Each to their own. Not my business. But I think they kind of look cool on a younger body.

I know a guy who had full sleeves. Had them lasered off after he became a dad as he felt people regarded him as looking like a thug.

Bit of a thorny subject, tattoos. But they don't cause harm to others so I don't really care what people do.

There is a young dad on YouTube who blogs about his daily life.
He’s covered right up to his neck & sides of his face, but you can see he’s a very good looking & well spoken fella, who absolutely adores his daughters.
But just makes me wonder why anyone would want to do all that to themselves.
I mean years down the line if the kids (now grown up) say dad can I get my face covered in tats, I wonder if he would try & talk them out of it, or say ‘darling go for it’.

Cossy

Goodness, the judgement here is rampant!

Common, loathsome, horrible!

😱😱😱

Exactly. Whatever happened to - to each their own. Tattoos are a very personal thing and they're not hurting anyone else, so let others do what they want to their own bodies.

That's very funny keepcalm. I might try as well! 🤣

I don't have a tattoo, but dancing and drinking..yes please.
Shall we fix a time and date, keepcalmandcavachon?

Oh, and I'm just thinking about some of the bands I like - some of the lead singers I absolutely love have loads of tattoos and they are some of the most gorgeous men I've ever seen in my life. I could stare at them all day!

petra

boheminan

Oh...here we go again

Soon it will be false eyelashes, pumped up lips, false nails 😂

You forgot to mention the butt lifts and boob jobs 🤣🤣🤣

I don’t like them and wouldn’t have one. None of the family have them either. Most of the young men we employ to do various jobs in our home do have them, of varying sizes, designs etc. all are lovely lads, polite, friendly etc. not everybody that has them is a thug although some undoubtedly are. A female friend in her 70s has several on her foot and arms. Her son does tattoos. I notice she always wears long floaty skirts that cover most of them up. They are very obvious on her arms.

Small children or not so small children have had those temporary “tattoos” for decades, though we called them “transfers” back in the day!

Gran22boys

Still hideous and common.

Agreed!

Cossy

Small children or not so small children have had those temporary “tattoos” for decades, though we called them “transfers” back in the day!

and can you remember candy fags?
the desired sweet of the common people's children

Given this is a thread on a perspective of older women, I wonder how many of us knew anyone from their peer group with a tattoo, or where a tattoo parlour would be sited??? Now they're in every high street, but I can't remember a single one as a late teen or where anyone would go for one. What would parents have said back then if one were to come home with one? Mine would have had ten pink fits would it have even been a consideration for any of us in our youth, given it would have been viewed as pretty unorthodox. Ok all has moved on and everyone is of their time, so perhaps like many we've been shaped by an attitude that didn't endorse them.

Trends come and go, how many punks from Johnny Rotten days, now into their 60s, or 70s even are still walking around with hair gelled up into a plumage effect. I know that there are retro looks that some hang on to, Teddy Boys were viewed as people in a bit of a time warp once the 60s got going and a whole new look evolved. I just wonder if the tattoo trend might be viewed as very old school in the future once those who've had them in their youth reach their dotage. I bet there will be some who want to get rid of them

I remember candy fags, my mates and I got a detention for being reported smoking in town in our school uniform, therefore dragging the school into disrepute No amount of trying to explain, what was hanging out of our mouths was actually a cigarette in disguise, just a sweet!

Cossy

Small children or not so small children have had those temporary “tattoos” for decades, though we called them “transfers” back in the day!

Our two youngest GC (6) draw tattoos on their arms and hands, interesting designs…

I grew up in the punk era ( was 14 in 1977 )
plus I lived in London, so I’m very used to seeing people expressing themselves through fashion. But I still think tattoos are a masculine thing. I agree they can look extremely sexy on a good looking man, but on women, no.
I also think drinking to the point of drunkenness is awful in women.
Women should be better than that & not try and be like men.

I think the best bit of imparted wisdom about Tattoos I heard was from the late, great Ossie Osbourn. During that fly on the wall programme the Osbourns did in the early noughties. Young teenage Kelly, as she was then, pondering about getting tattooed . Ossie of course covered in them, said something along the lines of "if you want to be different and stand out don't have any!"

I could have wept when my children started having tattoos. I felt like I had spent 18 years trying to keep their bodies perfect and they had purposely damaged them.

GrannyGravy13

Cossy

Goodness, the judgement here is rampant!

Common, loathsome, horrible!

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We have five AC, they all have a tattoo, some more than others, their bodies, their choice.

I will probably have a small one for my 0 birthday.

Our children are definitely not common or loathsome, mind you over the years they have all been horrible at some time.

I hope all posters who are so judgmental are happy to be judged by others for their choices 🤷‍♀️

Last birthday, I had my first. I booked it on a whim, though I'd thought about it for years - a small traditional design that reflected my kids' lives. Definitely go for it, GrannyGravy

And yes, Cossy, I agree with you