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Tattoos, Body Art & body modifications

nero_bolt — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:05:45 GMT

I dislike tatoos

I disliketatoos on women even more, think they look so yuck and cheap and as a couple of friends of mine say to me it make the women look skanky

and then you have this.. The body mods..... YUCK

What are all these people going to look like when they are 40 and 50 etc......

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s3961312.htm

With tattoos now in the mainstream, some people are discovering new ways to standout from the crowd, pushing their bodies to artistic extremes.

SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: You might think that the craze in body art couldn't get any bigger than it already is, but tattoos have become so common that enthusiasts are searching for ever more outrageous body modifications, as they're known. For example, eyeball tattoos and tongue splits. If you haven't seen one it's worth staying with us, although it's not for the squeamish as our reporter Monique Schafter found.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s3961312.htm

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azureline** — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:05:31 GMT

Some people are 40 or 50 when they get some, so probably not a concern for them at all.

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nero_bolt — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:16:20 GMT

can you imagine someone with these body mods and tattooed eyes rocking up for a job interview.

wonder what these people do for a job with the extreme body mods

are they even employable

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azureline** — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:25:21 GMT

We would not employ them in our business as our customers would object. However, I expect others may hire them if their customer base is accepting of that type of individual. The local fruit market would.....................and some may be self employed.

I have issues with facial piercings myself. I can't look at them as it makes me feel sick. Tatts....not for me and I would discourage family members from getting them but..not my skin, not my place to object.

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lakeland27 — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:31:23 GMT

i dont have any, but i think hating something harmless is odd . they might not like blue rinses, but is either being fair ?

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azureline** — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:34:44 GMT

who said hate?

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lakeland27 — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:37:01 GMT

the post only has 'in reply to ' as a result of timing , not content.

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i-once-was-bump — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:30:33 GMT

I don't like tattoos or a lot of body piercings but thought nothing of having my ears pierced when I was 12 so that I could wear the family earrings when I turned 13. The earrings were not of any value just that they had been worn by grandmother and great grandmother and i just did what everyone but my mother had done before they turned 13.

(My mother missed out because she was deaf, way back in the 1930s they didn't pierce ears if the person was deaf.)

I don't employ people so I don't know if when faced with it would I choose someone without tattoos over a colourful and metallic applicant.

As for customers not liking it, I don't know how that would affect any business but you do have to put your business ahead of a tattoo if it came to that.

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poddster — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:03:56 GMT

If any one has to have tattoo or body piercing to stand out they must be pretty ordinary to start with. Once the do decide to get one/ some of those thing done , all they have managed to do is conform to a group of people like them and no longer stand out

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poddster — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:06:44 GMT

some people look like animated graffiti walls.

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silverfaun — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:25:38 GMT

I was at a family wedding and the bride walked down the aisle, she was beautiful and her white lace strapless dress was stunning. When she passed us we saw she had a huge black chinese dragon tattoo'd down her back.

The tatoo looked like the "Girl with the dragon tatooo".

It was shocking and so out of place in the very expensiove surrounds, venue and wedding party.

I wonder if she will regret that one day. It was a very menacing black tatt, not something you would even assosciate with a beautiful young woman from a wealthy family.

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azureline** — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:34:36 GMT

Where does wealth factor in to that?

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i-need-a-martini — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:38:28 GMT

Well I suppose that a moderate sized but quality tattoo might cost a few thousands, perhaps you need to be wealthy to have one?

Was that the point silverfaun was making?

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i-need-a-martini — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:42:07 GMT

Personally I don't have them and think you are crazy to get one. But to each their own.

I've seen some fabulous body art. There is a girl who works in Newtown who dresses impeccably (40's/50's styling) who is covered neck to ankles in tattoos. The tattoos are magnificent and suit her perfectly. Everything about her is a head turner.

In terms of finding a job, not all people work in stuffy offices. No-one in a creative industry would care if their employee had tattoos.

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poddster — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:43:27 GMT

@i-need-a-martini wrote:
Well I suppose that a moderate sized but quality tattoo might cost a few thousands, perhaps you need to be wealthy to have one?

Was that the point silverfaun was making?

No the point was that a trashy tattoo does not belong on an elegant woman of caliber 🙂

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i-need-a-martini — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:48:11 GMT

@poddster wrote:
@i-need-a-martini wrote:
Well I suppose that a moderate sized but quality tattoo might cost a few thousands, perhaps you need to be wealthy to have one?

Was that the point silverfaun was making?

No the point was that a trashy tattoo does not belong on an elegant woman of caliber 🙂

You can't get more elgant than the woman I see every week in Newtown. She oozes elegance and sensuality.

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poddster — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:51:38 GMT

Like a graffiti encrusted Ferrari?

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i-need-a-martini — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:06:42 GMT

No.

More like an intricately hennaed mercedes sports hard top circa 1969.

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amber-eyed-girl — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:12:19 GMT

The eye tattoos I find disturbing, but from a medical point of view.

I do not mind tattoos, unless they are designed to be confrontational. If it has a meaning for the tattoo-ed one, then that is nice for them, and if it is a bit different, can be interesting to see.

a lot of people get one without thinking it through, or just to have one, as they are mainstream now. That I think is a shame. Those could be regretted.

I would not get one.

For jobs, even police have them, but they need to be covered on the job now. Sarah Murdoch has them...they are not a job-breaker so much now unless they mean an association that is unlawful, I think 🙂

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poddster — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:27:09 GMT

I just can not see the logic in paying someone to perferate your skin and then rub ink into the wound with all the pain and agony associated with it.

I wonder if it as a "look at me, see I withstood the pain, here is the proof"

Ummm Big Deal!!