Show ya tattoos

[Paul in NZ]

Tats may (or may not) be cool but... They won't make you cool....

I just have this feeling that in a few years there is going to be a lot of 45 year olds sitting in front of HR people (going for the big dream job) trying to be taken seriously with there ears flapping on their shoulders and "AC/DC or Death" tattooed on their foreheads...

I'm and old skanky uncool git with a tendancy to be a bit trashy so I kinda avoided em incase it made things worse..

[Grubber]

The tattoo has taken on a whole new role in life today. It is no longer applied with the same reason it was initially meant for.
Many moons ago it was a mark of distinction, respect,mana and the designs were meant to be significant life pictures. Shame there is little or no respect for them nowadays. They are treated more as common jewellery than life events.
I have a family emblem on one arm off my shoulder with my kids names and pictures that are associated with them. On the other i have one that represents my past and present attitude to life. Neither will be removed or changed and there aint no regrets.

[rustic101]

Mine reflect what is important to me (some in my albums) to other people they mean nothing, but to me they mean everything.
Just remember they are permanent

[Vixen]

tats are sexy i love them on a man i have one on my lower back and want another somewhere.... big decision though, you gotta get it right and make it meaningful then you wont regret it. Took me over 30yrs to decide on the 1st one.... lets hope it doesnt take as long for the second... haha

[Reckless]

Tats may (or may not) be cool but... They won't make you cool....

I just have this feeling that in a few years there is going to be a lot of 45 year olds sitting in front of HR people (going for the big dream job) trying to be taken seriously with there ears flapping on their shoulders and "AC/DC or Death" tattooed on their foreheads.....

Amen to the first comment! Don't get a tat to look cool get them because you like the design! Never on your face or hands.
Conservative comments some will think but you never know what you'll be up to in 10 years.

To the second comment I got mine when I was 18 or so but had the brains to get them on the shoulders. I'm an architectural designer doing peoples additions, alterations and new homes, now I'm not a builder any more and pleased I did. I don't give a hoot about the "people should except you as you are" comments that might be posted, they don't, people will always judge you in the first 60 seconds, and I want to eat. I can still wear a summer business shirt and look like Mr professional architect LOL!!

In fact I still like them so much I got them recoloured and my kids names added for my birthday 2 years ago, 3 sessions of about 4 hours or so each.
Its art so go to a lot of shops and don't look at the shops work, look at the individual tattooists work. I went to heaps and liked one ladies shadowing and colour blending work. So when I went in I insisted on her and only her. Tattooing has come a long way since I was 18 and there are lots of styles and choices out there now. The lines have got much finer and the art much more individual. In my day it was fat outlines, coloured in, and they all looked similar no matter who you went to, now its much different. Choose wisely, go home think about it, then go back and get it, its with you for life! good luck!

[Berries]

I collect elephants, got them everywhere at home.........

Big house is it ?

I got a cartoon character done at the top of my arm over 20 years ago. Will never regret it, it reminds me of a time and place, and bird etc etc, but I wish I had put a bit more thought in to it and got a decent one that doesn't make me look like a twat.

[Urano]

here is a manner... (manner is the right word??)
it happened to be something cool years ago, but now it's so obvious and kept in such a stupid way that it's difficult spotting someone without one.
i don't have any, and neither my wife, which is pretty surprising: consider that we know only two other couples without tattoos on both.

i don't like the tattoo for "style". sometimes ago i thought to have a little pilot wings, but my body is not o spectacular, so it wouldn't be of any interest...
my sister in law (one of them) is a md, and i suggested her to have a caduceus, but she became a mother early after so her mind has turned away...

obviously there are different considerations about maori and other tribals significance: for them is a different story...

[Hawkeye]

This subject has been done to death on here. Try using the search facility. It's amazing what you find.....

[Laava]

The name may have changed...
I am thinking about getting a Kina tattooed round my date, would make a startling down trou.

They werer having a laugh about this on Hauraki and this guy rang up to say his mate had "Ah Novus!" near his purple starfish!

A mate of mine got a tattoo of a weed leaf on his arm. The tattooist was drunk and stoned at the time he did the tat on my mate, and it looks horrible. It looks like a terrible dried, shriveld up leaf. It's enough to put me off getting a tattoo.

True! I worked for this ex Navy guy who woke up with a hideous tat of a viking warrior with one fat leg, one skinny leg and the rest all out of proportion, on his forearm! Presto, instant prison tat! He spent over 5G getting it off and this is 20yr ago!

[peasea]

indeed. Like motorcycling, say.

Agreed. I have always found better things to spend my money on; like gasoline, tarts, drugs and booze, a much wiser investment portfolio than tat's in my opinion.

[peasea]

indeed. Like motorcycling, say.

Agreed. I have always found better things to spend my money on; like gasoline, tarts, drugs and booze.

[Mudfart]

some site mods need to clean out the old thread pages coz i carnt be arsed looking through 500 pages of rant n rave.
i notice the neck seems to be an acceptable place to get em these days.
maybe sum pics of my kids, from photos of while they were still young, innocent and controllable, (spankable).
maybe a tat of my current bike, and then future ones?.

[dangerous]

Tats may (or may not) be cool but... They won't make you cool....

I just have this feeling that in a few years there is going to be a lot of 45 year olds sitting in front of HR people (going for the big dream job) trying to be taken seriously with there ears flapping on their shoulders and "AC/DC or Death" tattooed on their foreheads...

I'm and old skanky uncool git with a tendancy to be a bit trashy so I kinda avoided em incase it made things worse..

shit ill just be happy to make it to 45...
Paul you have meet me many a time and may or may not have seen my ink, I will never have a tat that cant be hidden by a T shirt and shorts, as they are mine not the worlds, nothing to do with being cool. the random shit ya see around theses day on the young ones is for posing purpose and there I agree with ya post.

The tattoo has taken on a whole new role in life today. It is no longer applied with the same reason it was initially meant for.
Many moons ago it was a mark of distinction, respect,mana and the designs were meant to be significant life pictures. Shame there is little or no respect for them nowadays. They are treated more as common jewellery than life events.
I have a family emblem on one arm off my shoulder with my kids names and pictures that are associated with them. On the other i have one that represents my past and present attitude to life. Neither will be removed or changed and there aint no regrets.

yeah agree with ya aye, my 1st tat was at 28 and IMO I dont believe getting one earler than that, its not till you know were you are in life and who you are that a personal choice like a tat can be made with no regrets.
Tattooing is a art form (not the random shit of the wall) and it is the only thing in life you can wast ya money on and take to ya grave.
pic an example of what I consider awesom art.