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I'm not a fashion critic, nor am I related to any, and, yes, I do have immediate family with tatoos.....and I think they generally look ignorant.
Especially lots of them.
And wall-to-wall is beyond ignorant, and I'm convinced, somewhere well into psycho land.
I saw a young gal, probably in her 20s, in the locker room the other day with a big ornate tattoo on her perfectly flat belly. It made me want to giggle because I thought about what that was going to look like in about 15 years. I don't care how fit you are. After 35, belly issues are just a reality for women (and most men).
Otzi the Iceman, a 5,000-year-old mummified man uncovered in the Austrian Alps in 1991, bore at least 57 tattoos.
The practice of body art spans time and human cultures. A contemporary Maori man in New Zealand with traditional “moko” facial tattoos.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060503/news_lz1c03body.html
well, if my body is supposed to be a temple, what's wrong with painting the walls?
I happen to like tats, and the folks I know with them are extremely intelligent and creative. The attitude towards them in the 'younger' generation is very different from those who were raised when only sailors and carnies had them.
Now, it's more mainstream in many regions.
Sounds good. Not that tattooing is good, but that acceptance will remove the stigma. Kind of Heideggerian, make visible by being useless.
If somebody wants to go get a tatoo - guys anyway, that's ther business, you have a right to anything you want in a free country even if it means making an a$$ of yourself.
As for women, I find tattoos on them repulsive unless its quite small and discreet and even then I don't like them. It should be a capital offense to tatto a woman - especially a beautiful one - its like defacing a natural work of art.
I truly do appreciate well-done body art. Many in the Christian community are also using letters/words in Hebrew as an opening to share the gospel. I had a biker tat as a 20-something that I had changed into a discreet dolphin when I got older. (I always say, it started out as a guppy but, like me, its grown).
Tattoos used to be a sort of "in-your-face-I'm-a-wild-thing" kind of declaration. I had a mastectomy in '92 and chose not to have reconstruction - haven't got around to decorating that blank space with an interesting, tasteful tat yet for hubby's eyes only, but only because of the expense - and I'm 56.
That being said, once tattoos started appearing on grossly overweight, stringy-haired, middle-aged, female couch potatoes, they ceased being a statement of "I'm wild and fun" and simply became a method that homely people use to try to make themselves look more interesting.
I hate to sound cruel, but once a "statement" filters down to the lowest common denominator, the truly "young, wild, & hot" will look for other extreme ways to express their individuality. And so goes the cycle. I remember when having more than one earring per ear was considered extreme.
