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In reply to the discussion: Do you think tattoos are attractive?? [View all]Nine
(1,741 posts)I can't imagine anything I would want to have on my body for the rest of my life. Hairstyles, clothing, makeup - all those things can be changed someday. Tattoos cannot. It's not a matter of the tattoos sagging someday, it's that you are expressing yourself in a way that can never be undone. It's like fusing an article of clothing to your body. Tattoos give me the same sense of sadness as I get when I see people who have had some extreme plastic surgery. I won't say I have never seen an attractive tattoo, although I mostly see them as examples on the internet, not in real life. 99 percent of the ones I see in real life just look like dull greenish-black smudges to me, never crisp or colorful. But even the photos that look gorgeous make me think, "That would be an awesome tattoo to have... for about two weeks." After that, I'd get bored and want to try something else, but oops, nope, this design is forever. All that said, tattoos are completely unremarkable these days and I know many, many people who have them, so I don't associate them with being low-class or hipster or anything else. They're just boring disfigurements to me. And the ones that are very small and hidden seem especially pointless to me.