Btw, everyone in my social group has tattoos. I don’t think they’re going out of style at all. Me and my friends are always adding more.
None.
Call me a fogey, but I’ve never seen a tat (on a female, in particular) that I thought was the least bit attractive. Quite the opposite.
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Kanji? So, you got “day” and “month” tattoed? 
I’m thinking Shodan is saying that his getting one will make them passé.
I have one. I wont say what it is.
I’m always surprised when people write tattooing off as a “fad” that’s “on its way out.” Tattooing has been around for thousands of years and, in some cultures, is done in a high ritualistic way. I don’t see it going anywhere any time soon.
I got mine for my 40th birthday. My dad died about a month before and we were really close.
It’s a floral design of three narcissus (flower for December, my dad’s birth month) with leaves and shading. It stretches from the toes on my left foot to about a third of the way up the left side of my calf…about 10 inches long, each flower is about 3ins wide.
I love it.
I don’t have any, because nothing has ever struck me as so necessary that I have to have it on my body day and night. Hell, I’m even missing a lot of organs I was born with! What do I need to add stuff for?
Plus, I’m a wimp about pain. I’m sure I’d endure it if I thought of something that essential to me, but I just don’t know what it would be.
However, shortly after my Dad died, when two of my nephews (half-brothers) decided to get matching tats in their grandfather’s memory, I certainly wasn’t opposed. I’ve seen some very attractive tats, and besides that, hey, whatever other people decide to do with their bodies is surely not my decision!
(I will say, one thing I hate, is some teen/early-20s folks who have a body full of tattoos, fifteen piercings, obviously spent an hour on their makeup, spent a good amount of time and money making their hair outrageous; but if they catch your attention at the Mall, they’ll snarl at you and say “What are you lookin’ at?” Which makes me want to say “Well, if you didn’t want me looking at you, why did you go to so much trouble and expense to make yourself look like a freak?”
But of course, that’s not about tattoos, that’s about punk attitude, which I hate regardless of whether ink is involved or not. . .)
He’s not kidding. 
At 43, I have no tattoos and no interest in getting any. All tattoos look like people have been scribbling on themselves to me.
I’ve got three. Don’t know if I’ll get another one or not.
I never expected to get a tattoo, but I had to have some dots put on my chest for medical purposes.
Afterwards I had them embellished, so that they appear as the stars Decapoda, Asellus Borealis, and Asellus Australis (with Acubens and Al Tarf added to complete the constellation).
It serves as a constant reminder of mortality.
No tattoos. Have no desire to get one.
When I go to Lowe’s or Wal-Mart in the summer, I swear I am the only person in the place without a tattoo…
No, and I doubt I will ever get one. I just don’t see the attraction. My niece, a smart, very attractive young woman, got one just above her boob. I was appalled, but it wasn’t my place to say anything, so I kept my mouth shut.
One, it marks a meaningful event in my life. I still love it. I got it 6 years ago, no desire to get another one!
I have plans for two, and a tentative idea for a third.
I’d like to get, on my left shoulder, the word “stet.” It’s Latin for “let it stand,” a proofreader’s mark that means “This isn’t a mistake; it’s supposed to be this way, so leave it the way it is.”
I have a religious symbol planned for my right calf, surrounding the ACT UP triangle.
Finally, on my right shoulder, I’m considering – you know those tattoos with snakes or vines or tribal that encircle one shoulder? I’d like to get one with lines from the metro map.
Three. The last one was cumulatively four and a half hours of pretty intense pain, and initially I thought I wouldn’t be getting anything new for a good long while. But the lure of new ink is always there, it seems. I have the artwork in hand for a new one, but I’m waffling because it’s highly detailed, which means it will have to be pretty large. Additionally, I’d really like it to be someplace centered on my body, but that means the only place to put it would be on my back, and I don’t see the point of that. My tattoos are for my enjoyment and not for anyone else’s express consumption, so if it’s on my back, I can’t easily see it. So, I may abandon that design altogether, which is fine.
None for me, thanks. I just never wanted something printed on me forever enough.
I have five; I got my first one (a dragon on my right shoulder) when I was 16, and my last one (a word on my wrist) when I was 23. I’m 26 now, with plans for more when I’ve got some disposable income.
I do regret the last one, though, not because of aesthetics but because it was tangentially connected to a failed relationship. I thought I could escape that curse by not using the person’s name and by having it be meaningful in other ways as well, but no such luck–I just think of the person every time I look at it. My next tattoo is going to be a cover up of that one, using a silhoutte of a seagull.
None for me or the wife. She’d probably lock me out of the condo if I came home with one. Every time we pass a tattoo parlor – which are legion over here – I offer to pay for a tat for her, which always pisses her off. 
One time way back in West Texas, I attended a party where also in attendance was a band from Arizona that had been playing in a local dive. The lead singer was covered with tattoos, including all over his bald head. It made me think that whenever old hippies wanted to change their lifestyle and become a banker, say, or some other type of businessman, they just had to shave, get a haircut and put on a suit. But what do you do if you wake up one day covered with tats and decide your lifestyle was getting old? You’re just sort of locked into that.
Male, 31 - I have two. One on my chest just next to my right should, the symbol aum, and the other covers the whole of my right thigh, the Hindu goddess Kali. It’s a really intricate design, very detailed and colourful, and I got the design from an RPG book so it’s not as if someone else is going to have it.
I can never understand how people just pitch up to a tattoo parlour, pick up a book of examples and say “I fancy a tattoo, this one looks okay I guess” and get it done. I waited six months to get both my tats after deciding I wanted them, and I recommend everyone do the same.
Chatting with a bargirl one time, I couldn’t help but notice the hideous tattoo covering her upper arm. Two or three goldfish childishly drawn and with some lines crossed through them is the only way to describe it. As bad as it sounds, it looked worse. She said she had it done while drunk one time back when she was underage! :smack: