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So at some point ...

Frayed Knot Jul 25 2013 06:26 PM

... doesn’t this whole tattoo craze have to come to an end? I mean, admittedly I am the world’s worst judge of predicting popular trends but, when I was a kid, I thought of tattoos as something men probably a bit older than my father might have if they served in the navy back when they were young and brash and stupid. I don’t figure I would have put it in those words exactly but I think I had a vague notion that some regretted getting them and that the percentage of Americans sporting arm ink would certainly decline as time went on and the country became more white collar even if it might not disappear entirely. And of course we all know how accurate that prediction was. And it’s no longer just individual tats on arms or small ‘decorative’ ones but entire “sleeves” as well as on legs, chests, backs, necks, skulls, hands, etc. And it’s no longer just older men but younger ones, in-between ones, and probably a higher percentage of women than back when I thought there were too many men with them. And there seems to be an accross the board popularity as they’re seen on whites, on blacks, hispanics, pacific islanders, and probably Inuit eskmos and Icelandic immigrants for all I know. And while watching too much sports on TV probably exaggerates the share of people who have them, particularly those with the over-the-top earlobes to ankles “art”, a few peeks at European soccer reveals that it’s not just an American phenomenom either. But at some point all trends end, right?

RealityChuck Jul 25 2013 06:28 PM Re: So at some point ...

It'll end when teens see their parents' tattoos. My feeling is that the attractiveness of a tattoo is inversely proportional to the amount of skin they cover.

Ceetar Jul 25 2013 06:53 PM Re: So at some point ...

no, i don't think so. Will ear piercings end? If anything we're entering a phase of MORE expression, and tattoos are just one more expression of that. And I'd imagine, eventually tattoos will be more easily removable too (closer to a piercing?). And when that happens, tattoos will take off even more as a fashion the same way a clothing style or piercing or the dyed strip of hair is now (I like the neon accents, saw them last summer in Europe but not as much here, but it seems to have caught on in NY now too)

cooby Jul 25 2013 08:56 PM Re: So at some point ...

i saw a girl with hot pink hair today, but it was her whole head, not just a strip. I told my husband I am going to dye mine turquoise to match my eyes but he wasn't in favor of it.

Ceetar Jul 25 2013 09:09 PM Re: So at some point ...

cooby wrote: i saw a girl with hot pink hair today, but it was her whole head, not just a strip. I told my husband I am going to dye mine turquoise to match my eyes but he wasn't in favor of it. yeah, I saw one of those today too (Also at Pathmark, she wasn't buying Halloween candy though)

Frayed Knot Jul 26 2013 05:59 AM Re: So at some point ...

RealityChuck wrote: My feeling is that the attractiveness of a tattoo is inversely proportional to the amount of skin they cover. Well put.

metirish Jul 26 2013 06:27 AM Re: So at some point ...

Personally I am happy looking back that I never got tats....I never liked the idea of just one on the upper arm, to me sleeves done well look better. I was never willing to commit myself to all that though. Here is Thierry Henry sporting his latest work http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... attoo.html Looks pretty good on his well toned arms... Beckham looks cool now with all the tats but I do wonder what they will look like when he is say 50+..... I remember when I first moved here one of my roomies went to Chinatown to get a tat.......of the Irish tricolor ....it looked like a lost flag in a sea of white flesh....redundant.

Ceetar Jul 26 2013 06:59 AM Re: So at some point ...

Sometimes I think about getting a tattoo. I'd probably go for a pint glass of frothy beer with a Mets logo on it.

Frayed Knot Jul 26 2013 07:55 AM Re: So at some point ...

metirish wrote: Looks pretty good on his well toned arms... You know what looks good on well-toned arms? ... Well toned arms.