I just don't get it...they always say "when you're 80, you'll be all saggy and your tattoo will look horrible", ....
My question is, who cares? You'll be EIGHTY for crying out loud! I guess I would need a better reason than that to not get one!
2007-03-15 10:18:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body ➔ Tattoos
Saggy skin comes from age (more specifically, iirc, that breakdown of the fatty layer under the epidermis), but also from dermal damage due to the sun. The latter, aside from being rather more dangerous, is generally avoidable...
If one has a tattoo, it's hoped they want to keep them looking good. This means less sun, and less UV dermal damage, meaning their skin and their tattoos will last longer.
Long & short - the folks with tattoos are less likely to lose their youthful appearance, and slower at that, than those without (ignoring the few uninked who don't tan and the inked who do).
2007-03-15 13:07:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
50 year ago and further back any man with a tattoo was consider a "rough character" , or a thug or someone who was probably in prison or would be in prison soon. Women who had tattoos back then were few and far between, and they were considered trash if they had one. Sometime in the 90's that generation made it popular to get and have tattoos, both sexes. They are very much accepted today, but you still have those old people who think you are trash or a criminal if you have a tattoo. It will take time for everyone to accept them.
2007-03-17 19:48:38 · answer #2 · answered by harri_pitts 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh I know right! I love tattoos and everyone always is like when your 80 thats not going to look good! but its like when im 80 people are not going to be checkin me out I mean come on! Oh they also say well your going to change your tastes and not like that stuff anymore my though is anything that meant that much to you at a point in your life even if you drift away form it you are going to look at that tattoo and it is going to bring back memories and will always remind you of who you were and are and where you came from. So yeah I guess what im saying is rock on man and screw all these tattoo haters!
2007-03-15 17:25:19 · answer #3 · answered by Rochelle 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I always suspect that people who say things like that are afraid of the idea of being old and wrinkly anyway, and the tattoo angle is just a way of expressing that fear - as though somehow if they don't have tattoos that wrinkliness is never going to happen!
Personally I don't consider the idea of getting old quite such a problem (which is a good job, really, because I don't have many alternatives!)
But yes, it's always seemed a pretty silly argument to me, too.
2007-03-15 17:25:34 · answer #4 · answered by Marzipan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I got a whole bunch of them about 15 years ago (yes, while i was at school). I thought my back piece would stretch when I became preggy, but it did not. As far as regrets, only one. Now I work in an office and my armband has to be covered. Otherwise who cares what it looks like when I am 80? I love mine and it is, after all, my body!
2007-03-15 17:25:00 · answer #5 · answered by Tammi 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
think about what you were like about 10 years ago. weren't you a lot different, with a lot of different opinions? by the time you are eighty, you will probably think a lot differently. also, the people who get the name of someone they love, or something they like, might hate that person or thing later and be stuck with its name on their body forever. that sux. and if you get it somewhere you can't hide it, some people won't hire you. i'm just not sure i would want an image PERMANENTLY (FOREVER!!!!) on my body for the rest of my life and even then some, but some people have different opinions. i think also that there is typically a negative connotation associated with tattoes because in high class jobs you're not really supposed to have them...so people associate it as a low class type thing.
2007-03-15 17:26:30 · answer #6 · answered by squirrelgirl 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
People argue that your interests might change. But I have had my tattoos for a long time (one is going on 15 years). I don't regret any of them. I just didn't get something that was a 'fad'.
2007-03-15 18:06:24 · answer #7 · answered by Mika 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OOOOH! I know this. Well, I have a theory. First off let me say i have several rather large tats and my husband has a full sleeve. My theory is that people that bash them are just too scared of getting one. SO, to make themselves feel better they have to make you feel worse. Agree?
Your right...your 80! I think at 80 I'll be more worried about wiping my on hiney than 'oh my, my tiger is sagging'.
2007-03-15 17:27:13 · answer #8 · answered by Bad Answer Queen 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everyone has their own opinions on tattoos and all they can do is try and enforce their beliefs on others regardless that everyone should be able to feel, do, etc.. what and how ever they want.
That's society for you though
2007-03-15 17:24:36 · answer #9 · answered by Meg 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
haha and besides that
don't old people usually like
cover themselves up? lol
now is now! seize the day...blah blah blah
i want like 3. but if i were a guy
i'd have my arms and chest and everywhere like covered up.
aha.
2007-03-15 17:24:14 · answer #10 · answered by Melissa 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋