Can I please just say this?

Question

Sorry, not really a question I wanted answered, just a statement for the people who say that tattoos are going to look bad when you're old and wrinkly...

Let's be real. Who is actually going to be looking at you when you're "old and wrinkly" and judging your tats? Are you going to be wearing clothing tank tops and ish when you're that old anyway? More than likely, they'll ask questions.

Shoot. If you prohibit yourself from doing something NOW because you're worried about how you'll look 60 years from now....what's the point of living?

Had to get that off of my chest.

Answer 1

i hear ya girl. not only that but they act as if when we get old we're really gonna be worried about how we look... UM... no. we're gonna be worried about how we're gonna get all our meds and our retirement.

if anything when i get old i'm gonna get one scarey @$$ tat on my face and chase children... they'll have nightmares of me. BWA HA HA!

Answer 2

Quick preamble: I'm very much in the same camp. This is more a letter to those thinking oh-so early-to-mid 20th century.

Now, let's say that, gerontology progressing the way it is, people currently 20 will live into their early 100s fairly reliably; ignore a few elephants in the global room for the moment. General medicine also changing, people are aging slower than they once were, so what people describe as "scary" will progress upwards as time goes on - 55 being the new 40, as Spink previously noted.

This means that you, you 20-something tattooed person, will look "good" - by general view, and not your then whatever age viewpoint which extends considerably further - until your 60s or 70s. Maybe even later, but even if not, that's *40-50 years*, half a frickin' century, of happiness you're missing out on. That's even giving half the argument away - that there is something wrong with an older person with a tattoo, and that if it ages that much you can't touch it up.

Think it won't happen? Check out the age of men AND women that are considered hot today compared to 50 years ago. We're already changing; sex & sexiness don't stop at 21, and are rather more, um... busy, quite into one's 40s, 50s & beyond. There are still biases wearing down and the entertainment industry is a whole other discussion by itself, but the future is not going to be what you think it is.

Answer 3

you've got a very good point there, and i completely agree with you. I'm just here to say that if you take good care of yourself, you don't necessarily have to be old and wrinkly one day.

cant wait to get my own tat. whts the legal age? 18 or 21.im 13

Answer 4

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Answer 5

What exactly do you mean by "old and wrinkly"? What about your active working years (20-59) when you have a degree and are out their interviewing for a professional position. With tattoos all over you (and maybe even piercings) few employers would consider hiring you because you will create a bad impression with their clientele.

Answer 6

I agree with you girl!!!

Hell.....I'm halfway to 90 & no signs of any wrinkles yet (well, maybe alittle around the eyes...aVERYlittle....HaHa), but I don't have any tats there anyway!

If I am fortunate enough to live to be 90, I hope that my tattoos just show that I enjoyed life & had fun all those years!!!

Answer 7

I totally agree. Plus both my grandfathers have tattoos and I always thought it was cool growing up. They would talk about their tats and tell us stories about getting them in the Navy and why they got them. Plus since our generation all has tattoos, most of us will have them when were old. Yep, I'm with ya.

Answer 8

Well if that's how you feel.
I kinda agree.

However...I'm not concerned/worried about what other people think of it as much as i would think of it when I'm old, and sagging.

Also.....i don't think it looks classy if u have a tat and it shows on the as u were Ur wedding or if you go to a really nice dinner /cocktail party.

If it's hidden oh well....it doesn't really matter that much. But if it shows i just done think its cute.

A tattoo is suppose to be something you do for urself not for others. (...again that's my opinion)

And i don't have one and i don't feel like it's the end of the world b/c i don't ...."just like if I'd have chosen to do it ... I'd do it for me....I haven't done it & thats b/c i've coosen not too"....& I'm Liivng my life just fine!!!!!!!!!

There are just more important things to me....i like how they look "on others" specifically just not on me...maybe if they weren't permanent. i dunno...whatever

Answer 9

I agree with you 100%. It's funny to see people's reactions to your tattoos. I got mine about a year ago. My sister had no issue with it, but my mom frowned upon it. She didn't tell my dad...not like he would cut me out of the family or anything. Whatever! I really love shows like Miami Ink. Once you get one, you're definitely addicted! I have a plan for the my next one but don't know where I'm going to put it yet.

Answer 10

My mom said that to me when I got my first tattoo and I said the same thing to her. Who is going to be looking at me when I'm old and wrinkly. And if they are i'm sure they've seen the tat's before. lol

Answer 11

If you take proper care of yourself, you may find that you're surprisingly good-looking at the "old and wrinkly" stage of life, but that your tatoo looks like someone injected the ink from a blue Bic pen under your skin instead of whatever colours were there originally. That sort of thing detracts from aging gracefully.

I'm not pro or anti tattoo, by the way. "Let people do what they want to do as long as nobody else gets hurt" is my own philosophy. I will share one of my favourite lines about tattoos. It came from Spy magazine, a satirical magazine that came out in the 1980's and 1990's. They would list the 100 worst things or trends for the past year in their year-end issue. On one of these lists, they included tattoos, but said, "We like tattoos. They make it easy to identify stupid people and they're permanent."