What **Heart of Dorkness **said. No reason to just expose the tattoo, since you like it and all. Anybody who wants to judge you for it, go ahead and thumb your nose at 'em. 
If it works for you, that’s great, but my tattoo definitely does not go with formal wear.
Most t-shirts I wear fully cover the wolf tat, but I do have two where the sleeves are just short enough that when I move a certain way the very bottom of the design can be seen. Observant people sometimes notice and ask to see the rest of it. I actually kind of like that. 
No. I want a small Om on my wrist, though. But I thought about my nosering for years before I got it, and i will think about my Om for years before I get it.
That tattoo cover stuff is amazing. My wife has a four-inch broken-heart-with-wings deal on her back, which she covered for the wedding. Couldn’t see it at all.
I don’t have any. I briefly considered it, but I’m glad now that I didn’t do it. I don’t think it would have ever seemed normal, on me.
I guess I’ll have to stop associating a tattoo of a pair of bright-red cherries with my mental image of you, then. 
I have five right now, along with various piercings. None are too obvious and have never prevented me from getting work etc.
Recently I’ve felt the urge to start a sleeve and so I’m starting to ask friends for artist recommendations in Seattle or Portland. My last artist resides in Vancouver (BC) and that’s just too inconvenient for me right now.
I had a temporary tattoo of a little dragon that I put on my wrist this week - I hated it so much I took it off the next day. I don’t think I’m a candidate for tattoos.
Henna tattoos are big business in the backpacker haven of Khao San Road. Actually an Indian import, you never saw them here 10 or 15 years ago, and it’s only the younger Western tourists who go for them. But they’re a good idea, as they wear off after a month or so I think.
Heh. Back when my upper arms didn’t look like they belonged to flying squirrels, I used to put temp tattoos on my biceps. One night I was out; had two small roses, forming a sort of yin/yang pattern, on my right upper arm. A guy who was really cute (imho) asked me if it was a real tattoo. Since I thought he was hot, I said “Of course!” 
He asked me where I’d had it done. Fortunately, I was able to pull the name of a local tattoo parlor out of thin air!
Before I knew it, I had a date for Saturday night, and had to re-do the tat! 
No, but if I ever manage to actually run a marathon, I am going to get a tattoo to commemorate the occasion.
I would get a henna tattoo. They look exotic and interesting and aren’t a permanent commitment. Maybe cherries, SFG!
Yes, I do. If you choose not to believe me that’s your choice but I have no reason to make such things up.
In any case, there’s no reason for me to do those things since I don’t want a tattoo. Sorry.
My overly serious answer is that I will never have a tattoo because my dad has one he got in a concentration camp- his number.
He never had it removed, some survivors did, because he said he never wanted anyone to say it didn’t happen.
I do think some tats are cute, but I could never do it. Too emotionally charged.
FWIW, I don’t think she meant “Sure you do” sarcastically in doubt of your stated medical issue. I think she meant “Sure you do” as in “Sure you do have ways of knowing which ones are scrupulous.”
I think you’re right. :smack:
My apologies to Shot From Guns. Thank you for the advice, I’m sure that it was well intentioned. I won’t be using it, but I appreciate your effort in posting it. It seems like sound advice that everyone should follow.
One of my best friends is Indian and she once gave me henna tattoos all over my hands, as is typical among Indian women. (Especially, but certainly not only, at weddings.) It looked cool when she did it, but the tattoos lasted for several days and I did a second take every single time I saw them. I couldn’t stop thinking that my hands were dirty before I remembered the tattoos.
I’m not sure I’d be a great candidate for tattoos.
Female, 30, four tats
One in the center of my upper back, one on each of my lower calves, and of course the classic “tramp stamp”. That was my first one and the only one I kind of regret. It has my wedding date on it and of course I am now divorced. :smack:
Getting it redone is on my long list of things to do when I have more money.
I think it might be kind of cool if you had the name of each spouse tattooed on you somewhere, crossing each one out with a single line as you divorce them and naming the next one immediately above.