Temporary tattoos

Tattoos have become like fashion accessories these days, plenty of people have them and I doubt all of them enjoy the pain. They are however, as Mini has pointed out, rather addictive. I haven't got any ink, but one day in the future I do hope to get one when/if my Aussie Rules football team ever win another Premiership to permanently commemorate the event. I worked with a girl who had a few, and she most definitely didn't enjoy the pain aspect, she told a story about how she was trying to hold back the tears one time and the artist encouraged her to cry, because he personally liked that. I don't think she went back to him again. She found it rather creepy.

I agree. I have one, on my forearm, which I got to support my wife. She wanted to get a tattoo to cover a large surgical scar she had on her leg. She was afraid of the pain, so I agreed to get one at the same time, so we could share the experience (and, I guess, complain to one another if it hurt). Turned out mine didn't hurt very much at all, just a little stinging especially when they filled in the colored parts, but her's hurt more. That was about a year ago. I have wanted to get another one for the last 6 months, so I went today to look. I picked one - an armband tat cuffed on the bicep of my other arm, to sort of balance the ink out - and I am getting it done on Wednesday.

No one who knows me - especially those who have known me for a long time, like my family - would ever think I would get one tattoo, let alone two. I just don't seem like the tattoo type, if there is a type. But here I am, with two of them (as of Wednesday).

I think I will stop at two. Though, you never know.

I always wanted an anchor on my arm. I got my wish in Portsmouth, England while in the military. That was 44 years ago and it still looks great. On my right shoulder.

I've noticed just recently that of the trainers in the gym I frequent, those who have one arm tattooed extensively now wear just one detached sleeve (there's a special word for these from the Tudor period, a 'scogger').
I can only presume that this covering up is being done as a result of a company policy, possibly because it might be felt to be inappropriate in some way.

I don't really have a problem with ink on people. Some of them actually look rather attractive. The facial tattoos though can be a bit alarming.

When it comes to tattoos, I don't mind the ones that look planned - where the wearer seems to have had an idea of the intended look they're going for (the best tattoo I've seen a picture of was an oriental design that started as a sleeve on a girl's arm, crossed her shoulder and back in a spiral that wrapped around her waist and finished on the outside of the diagonally opposite thigh).
What I don't like is tattoos apparently stuck on at random, with no one design having any relation in style or content to the others - to me it looks like a small child's sticker collection.

bendover
OMG too funny my X disciplinarian seriously wanted me to get a tat (not lifesized) of his hand on my butt in red of course