For those of you hating on women with tattoos, the great news for you is that most women with tattoos are not going to find your mindset attractive anyway, so it’s really not an issue.
Single dude here with three tattoos, One visible if I’m wearing a short sleeved shirt, plus another visible if I’m wearing shorts. All deeply meaningful to me, no “bro” tattoos.
Don’t like them, but my husband has one. So I guess it isn’t a deal breaker (he got it after we’d been married nineteen years - and it memorializes his late brother - you can’t break up a nineteen year happy marriage over ink in honor of someone who died too young.)
Speaking as a guy, I wouldn’t consider no tattoos on a woman a turn-off, but probably an indicator that we wouldn’t have a lot in common.
At the extreme end of the spectrum, I once dated a woman with nearly full coverage from the neck down. She was gorgeous, and the work was very high quality. Exploring her canvas was an incredible experience.
The main negative was the degree of attention she got when we were out and about in nice weather. I wasn’t able to handle it.
No. Definitely not a deal breaker. I guess in some instances the type of tattoo or how it’s done may be a turn off, but having them is not.
It would depend on the tattoos, actually.
I don’t have any personally (and sincerely doubt I will ever have any), but I don’t necessarily object to them on other people.
In a lot of ways, tattoos are a reasonably handy method for determining the overall likelihood the person sporting them and I are likely to be friends (let alone any more intimate relationship).
For example, it’s not all that likely that I’m going to have a whole lot in common with someone with a confederate flag inked on their bicep. I mean it could happen, and I’m generally not the sort who writes people off entirely based on physical appearance - but it’s a useful hint about potential incompatibility, you know?
This is a fantastic point. I love beautiful, well-thought out ink on women, but I would find dumb or cliche work (Tinkerbell on the ankle, sun around the belly button, anything tribal on the lower back) about as impressive as my female friends would find barbed wire or bro tribals on a guy.
And I have no problem writing people off for aspects of their appearance that are there by choice. 
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There have been a few times when I look at a woman in her 40’s and 50’s (my target age) and perk up, only to see an arm sleeve and neck tats. Done right there. No longer interested.
That’s fair, and makes sense. But if you knew someone who got a tattoo so that they would get laid more often, wouldn’t that seem weird? Like a poser type thing? Someone who doesn’t have any tattoos because they don’t like them probably wouldn’t be compatible with you, but also someone who got a tattoo to project a different image of themselves and so they’d fit in better with a certain crowd also probably wouldn’t be compatible with you.
Nope. I’m a 44-year-old woman with two tattoos, and so far the presence or absence of tattoos on a man hasn’t made any difference. Most of the men I’ve dated haven’t had any, but the last guy was completely covered neck to ankles. As with so many things, it depends on the invidual.
My online dating profile mentions my tattoos up front, because I know they’re a dealbreaker for some men. In person, though, I don’t go out of my way to either hide or mention them: one is visible if my ankles are showing, and the other is partially visible if I’m wearing very short sleeves (which isn’t very often; and I never go sleeveless). A guy would know about them before we slept together, though, unless it was a one-night-stand.
Yeah, that’s a good point. And someone who got a tattoo to fit in better with a certain crowd, or to look tough, or get laid (for some reason, I can only imagine a hetero male doing that one), wouldn’t be very compatible with me. I only wonder how easy or hard it would be to spot someone like that. It might be as easy as hearing the response to, “Hey, I really like that tattoo,” or it might require actually getting to know them for a while.
To me, all tattoos are hideous. A dealbreaker, I don’t know. But I’ve never been attracted to anyone who has one.
I saw a woman in her 50s with this completely beautiful monarch butterfly done on her forearm, I went up and complimented her on it and she rolled up her sleeve to show me the full piece, it was an illustration of the life-cycle of a monarch that had been taken from an old textbook, and it was utterly gorgeous.
I could deal with one or two small ones, but the large picture type - no.
Besides, at my age (almost 60), most tatoos are long past their prime.
I was living with a girl who had a few tats, we’d been together for a couple of years. She came back from an archaeological dig with a new tattoo on her neck, and I remember seeing it and thinking, “Cool tattoo. We’re never gonna have children. I might as well start ending this gracefully now.”
I wasn’t trying to be judgmental, it was a gut reaction. The neck tattoo just crossed some kind of line for me.
I don’t normally mind tats, but yeah, it can be a deal breaker I guess. A couple of years back, I met a really nice guy, same social scene, quite attractive, got pretty flirty whenever we met. Then we both went to an event where it got really really hot, and, while a bunch of us were relaxing by a lake, he took his shirt off.
Turns out he has the worst back tattoos ever. Big, lopsided, stupid theme, badly drawn, badly coloured, just awful in every way.
My attraction level flatlined immediately. Really a bit awkward.
I can only assume he got them in a stupid teenage phase, because I’m still friends with the guy (and his girlfriend now), and he shows no other signs of having the lack of taste or sense the tats imply. Still not sure I’d be able to overlook them though.
Some chicks can pull it off, but I mainly see it as a masculine thing.
of the thousands and thousands of tattoos I’ve seen over the years I can think of 2 that were well done. Even so, not my cup of tea.
It’s not so much a deal breaker as much as I find them very unattractive. The ink is highly limited in color spectrum and skin is a poor medium. That’s before you even get to the permanency of it. There isn’t an article of clothing I would consider wearing continuously.
I remember some nut here a few years back talking about meeting a women, taking her home and walking out after she disrobed and he saw she had some tattoos.
I personally could not care less.
I could only assume based on the “white trash masterpiece” comment.