I’m fairly ambivalent on tattoos. I dont want any, but if other people do it’s their bodies so go for it. I will say that 90% plus of the ones I see are on a spectrum that runs from dreadful to hilariously dreadful. Occasionally you see a real artwork - once saw a guy with a Japanese koi running down his back and leg and it was incredible work. Must have taken weeks. It looked like a woodcut, really beautiful.
But most where I am are terrible. Your kids names on your neck or ankle. Bad feathers. Names of boyfriends (with some crossed out. ) Barbed wire around the bicep and Chinese characters for the gen x crowd. The odd dolphin. Tramp stamps. There’s a bloke who I sometimes see around the city with a full fried breakfast tattooed on his head.
A woman at my work got a full watercolour sleeve done gradually and kept showing it off to me as if I was terribly boring not having any and it was just such bad quality work. You should get one eh? Haha you won’t you’re so square! (Yes I am, you rude person you.)
You just smile and nod… another woman had something done very discreetly and it meant something to her. It was a crap tattoo but it did at least have a meaning.
Anyway, I dont really care, but I don’t want one myself.