Tattoos, Body Art & body modifications

[nero_bolt]

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

[amber-eyed-girl]

To the ones who get them, if it is a thought out process, it is an expression of something meaningful, or an art form.

I would not get one, as if there is a mistake, it would be painful to change or remove.

I would be very careful to get something that mattered, and was likely to continue to matter to me, if I did want one.

but personally, I don't

[punch*drunk]

Its a personal thing I guess. I dont have any, but my husband does.

As long as they are well thought out and good quality they are fine, I see many that people will probably live to regret. One recently was a girl with 3 or 4 cartoon characters across her chest, they looked silly enough on a teenager and they'll only look sillier as she gets older.

A frend of ours has one on his forearm that has lots of fine detail. Looked good when he first had it done, but now the hair has grown back you cant even tell what it is.

I'm noticing lots of young people doing their own or getting friends to do them too, a recipe for disaster in many cases.

[*pepe]

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@poddster wrote:

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!!

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its a sweet kind of pain, a bit addictive actually

everyone has their own personal reason for getting them and i really think proving you can withstand pain would not even be a consideration for most

[colic2bullsgirlore]

Who has had their earlobes pierced but does not consider that piercing to be a body modification because when they

had it done it was an accepted norm or in fact a "trend"?

Amongst those that have had their ear lobes pierced who now thinks it was a bad idea in that it may inhibit their job

prospects or that they decided after that it looks ugly?

How many people when asked if they have piercings say/think "Oh only my earlobes"?

Why generallty are those piercings considered more socially acceptable or at least unremarkable? 

Has anybody had their ear lobes pierced for vanity reasons ie. because they thought the adornments that could be

hung from it would enhance their visual appearance?

Way back when (for the more "experienced" amongst us) what did your mother think/say when you said "I want to get

my ears pierced

http://www.squidoo.com/history-of-ear-piercings

"In the United States, ear piercing began to lose popularity in the 1920s with the advent of clip-on earrings, but became popular again beginning in the 1960s, primarily with women and girls.

Most ear piercings at that time were done at home, generally by sticking a sterilized or heated sewing needle through the ear into a piece of cork or other object, followed by the earring itself.

This is very similar to how ears are pierced around the world.

Also available since the 1960s were spring-loaded earrings in the shape of a ring with the ends sharpened to a point.

By placing the earring around the earlobe, and squeezing, over a period of days or weeks the ear will eventually be pierced through.

By the 1970s, one could get one's ears pierced in a doctor's office or at department stores, in events were sponsored by earring manufacturers.

Ear piercing guns were developed in 1970, and quickly became the most popular way to get one's ears pierced, at mall jewelry or accessory stores."

[punch*drunk]

i really think proving you can withstand pain would not even be a consideration for most

My sister tells me an epilady hurts way more than a tattoo. I have also wtatched her go through the process of laser tattoo removal and I know that its excruciatingly painful, especially over boney areas, and I think there will be more and more demand for it as the years go on and people start to regret some of the sillier tattoos they've had done.

[lloydslights]

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@poddster wrote:

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!!

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My body modification resulted in a chassis that used to look like a sleek Ferrari but is now similar to a Kenworth Prime Mover.

. ...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.

after 3 children.

DEB

[silverfaun]

I agree but what puzzles me is the absolute explosion of tatt's we are confronted with on middle aged women and young women.

What about these middle aged women who go on a trip to Bali and get a tatt?, what's that all about. RIP tatts? also.

I believe we will see a lot of people living to regret these tatts. Nobody wants go through like looking like a circus sideshow but that is what we are seeing today. Regret will abound.

[cq_tech]

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@poddster wrote:

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!!

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Believe me poddy, that was probably the last thing on my mind when I had my blood group tattooed on my left arm before shipping off to Vietnam back in 1967. Sure, our blood groups were clearly stated on our IDs and dogtags, but those are a hell of a lot easier to misplace than one's arm.

[boris1gary]

I suppose some people are sophisticated enough to understand the saying about not judging a book by it's cover and some just aren't.

[bluecat*dancing]

Getting the sclera tattooed looks risky but apparently, it is safe and doesn't damage the eye.