Would you get a tattoo?

stamford

Terrylw1 wrote: »

Hi, you go for it!!!

The fact is, you can always have it touched up later anyway. It's your skin that is the problem then, you don't see 80 year olds walking round half naked on the beach. It's not the tattoo thats done that, it's called getting older!!!

If you want it, do it, you're only here once!!!

Will the Tat Man be able to find it to touch up amongst all the rolls and folds of skin ?

suzukibabe

If it was me, i would get it done tomorrow.

I have one on my right shoulder of a symbol that means cherish with DS name underneath it, and will be having another one sometime next year with 'buns' name.

I can cover mine up if i want to- it's not in a place that's on show all the time, it's covered up when i'm working and it's a personal choice.

Ted_Hutchinson

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections : implications for patients and practitioners.Dermatologists and other healthcare providers need to be aware of the epidemiology, clinical features, management, and prevention of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CAMRSA) infection. Currently, infection caused by CAMRSA is considered to represent a worldwide epidemic and infectious skin lesions are a frequent occurrence. Athletes, certain ethnic populations, children, homeless persons, homosexual men, household members of infected people, HIV-infected patients, intravenous drug abusers, military personnel, newborns, pregnant and postpartum women, tattoo recipients, and urban dwellers of lower socioeconomic status in crowded living conditions are individuals at increased risk of developing CAMRSA infection.

msmicawber

No, I wouldn't. I don't want the pain or the possibility of infection, neither do I want to be an old lady with wrinkled, stretched, faded pictures of gawd knows what on my body. They don't even look that good when you're not a wrinkly...

Terrylw1

stamford wrote: »

Will the Tat Man be able to find it to touch up amongst all the rolls and folds of skin ?

I guess there's always the fingers, forehead and various other extremities :eek:

little_h_4

Just go for it! I had both my tattoo's done ten years ago and haven't regretted them for one minute. I'm going to have another one at some point soon when i decide what I want.

BigMummaF

Guess this shows that everybody is entitled to their own opinion.....but some of us don't have to preach or be nasty about it.

Ted_Hutchinson

BigMummaF wrote: »

Guess this shows that everybody is entitled to their own opinion.....but some of us don't have to preach or be nasty about it.

The total prevalence of tattoo and piercing is 8.5 % and 6.8 %, respectively. In the age 14-44 15 % are tattooed and 14 % are pierced. Unemployment and lack of partnership correlate positively with body modifications. Tattooing correlates with the perception of reduced mental health and both, tattooing and body piercing correlate highly with increased "Sensation-Seeking" behaviour.

BigMummaF

So Mr H,you are saying that it is mainly unemployed nutters who are Billy No-Mates who consider having tattoos & muliple peircings.

Bit of a sweeping statement isn't it?
Rather like the Scots are tight with their money; Welsh all belong to choirs; Irish drink nothing but black gold; French never bathe; English are snobs; Russians wear fur; et al
Add to that every decision made by the Court of Human Rights is totally understandable & politicians never lie & we have the full quota!

Ted_Hutchinson

BigMummaF wrote: »

So Mr H,you are saying that it is mainly unemployed nutters who are Billy No-Mates who consider having tattoos & muliple peircings.

Now tell me which of the words in my previous post came from Mr H as distinct from being cut and pasted directly from the research abstract?
If your conclusion from that research is that mainly unemployed nutters who are Billy No-Mates who consider having tattoos & muliple peircings that is your opinion and may or may not be mine.

I simply provide links to relevant research based information.

I think the average reader here is as intelligent and literate as I am, so they are equally able to comprehend the relevance of the sources I provide. If you have evidence tattoos are associated with high self-esteem and on the whole more stable mental health I will be interested to read those research papers.