what makes you think today
 

is the right day to get a neck or face tat?

ive got some ink, nothing I need to hide, but could if I ever had to. where I live many, many folks, especially chicks have really intricate, colorful sleeves as do a couple friends and family, so I'm not tat adverse. if you are your comment could hold more weight.

not that any of you would have a neck or face tat, but what might lead you to do so? im thinking if i joined a motorcycle gang i might need to ink my grill...

what might make you become a 1%er?

Not my thing so...never.

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Probably the same external forces that tell a person "hey, today is the day I think I'll start wearing sweater-vests."

They wear their defiance like a badge of honor; something hard-earned and tightly guarded.

It's all about personal choice.

And my personal choice is "No way in hell."

I wish I had "NO REGERTS!" tattoo'd on my forearm instead of my forehead...

People prolly think I'm an idiot :D

My tastes in art and fashion constantly evolve. Not following trends but rather following what suits me.

I feel like having a tatoo would be like being stuck for life with a mullet.

AND a facial tattoo would mean I am constantly being judged by others. So wrong, it's more correct that I judge them.

I’ve considered it many times. …but I’m complicated. When they invent one I can change from week to week, I’m in. ��

Half a lifetime ago I worked at a scientific iinstitute and asked a group of scientists what it would take to produce a tattoo ink that would fade/disappear after five years.

They said NO. Everyone has different skin with different levels of light (UV's) making it through. And if you had a tattoo ink that "would be gone by the time you are married" you would get your arse suited off. Some people it would be gone in a year, and others ten years later still have F' You written on thier forehead.

OK, maybe some of you should consider a lower back tramp stamp?

Ever see an old time vet with some forearm ink that is completely blurred cause it's 50 year old?

IMO, people with face and neck tats are in the same category as those who deface one of their eyebrows with slits and/or those attention-seeking haircuts.

I think it's sad their parents didn't pay enough attention to them and they're trying to make up for it.

https://www.bebeautiful.in/all-things-makeup/eyes/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-eyebrow-slit-trend

Today, if you have no tats, you're in the minority. I have no tats and reserve my right to be different, like everybody else.

Future trend? ... "Fencing Scars" :rolleyes:

I'm going to use the participle, "Wanton disregard" linked by the conjuction "for", followed by almost any proper pronoun.

How about 65 years old. Ex FIL. Pushing 90 himself.

"What is that, Carl?"

I disagree with the generality.

Face and neck tats can be appealing if well thought through and done by a top notch artist

I would lean towards art rather than a statement.

I don't know how to define well thought through but I know one when I see one.

I have no tats.

LOL .... I had to read this twice .... I thought you were talking about a tramp stamp at first....

I see that now. Ha.

Carl has an anchor kind of like Popeye. It's bad.

I've got no problem with tats. I've never considered one for myself. When I was a teen I considered piercing an ear (that was "in" at the time) but after thinking about it for a while, I decided not to do it so I'm still 100% stock, no mods. If I had something that meant a great deal to me, I might commemorate it via a tat. But I don't have anything that I feel the need to apply like that.

Tats from the neck up seem like a very serious commitment compared to many/most other places you could put them. They will impact first impressions. I guess the one exception being if you get one above the hairline and don't shave your head (hidden) or get one at the top back of your neck and have long enough hair to hide it. I think you can have tats for yourself in which case you probably don't care if another soul ever sees them. Or you can have tats that you want people to see. Which is the case, and what is the goal, and are you prepared to deal with the possible repercussions?

I don't understand the desire to get a face or neck tat, or the other recent trend especially for women, the upper chest tat.

https://tattoo-ideas.com/wp-content/...ntal-Chest.jpg

https://744230.smushcdn.com/2187482/...strip=0&webp=1

The only time I got close to getting a tattoo was my brief Army career but it just never happened. Never found something that I wanted to wear around for the rest of my life.

When I was working on the film "Pearl Harbor" we did the scene of the enlistment center out at the old Camarillo Mental Hospital. 120 extras, guys standing around in boxer shorts and it was tough to find anyone between 18 and 30 who didn't already have a tattoo and the majority were "tribal" tattoos which wouldn't have been around in 1941. They hired 15 extra makeup people to cover the tattoos before filming.

And that's the thing. Guys with tribal tattoos and chicks with "barbed wire" are probably hating their decision these days.

No tats or piercings for me, visible or hidden. I can find other ways to express myself. Plus I don’t see the point of paying someone big bucks to inflict pain on me. I’m a pussy.

Nope.

No tats. Haven’t found a message that I care enough to broadcast my entire life.

Face tats? An indicator of poor life choices.

The OCD in me couldn't contain it anymore. It's too.

It's also what?

Seems to me that face paint that can be here today and gone in a few days would allow greater expression...

Or there are really great masks these days...
Being a Zabrak for a day could be interesting.

"this to shall pass"

your incorrect, your going to need to say "too."

:D ROFLMAO

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pZHVJYWET...0/FELL%2B1.jpg

First, I love tattoo threads, it's always such a pleasure seeing how many fellow pelicans think poorly of me for having tattoos, and they're always so quick to remind everyone how much better they are for not having them.

Second, you forget you have them. Don't think "I can't think of anything I want to remember for the rest of my life" because after a few weeks, you kinda forget, just like you forget that mole on your left leg or the fact that your eyes are slightly different colors. You just stop noticing, it becomes a part of you as a whole.


It's funny, my wife never had any and never considered it. I went for one, and she decided to get a small one. Someplace hidden? Na, right in the crook of her elbow.

Then, a few months later, a second one. Again, carefully concealed? Na...full forearm, wrist to elbow.

Then a third, again on her other forearm. Jeeze, she's now more hardcore than I am!

It exists, there's a franchise that tattoos with disappearing ink. It's not 100% perfect, but apparently it's pretty damned impressive.

Also, very VERY expensive.

Edit: Ephemeral Tattoo https://ephemeral.tattoo/

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1670908716.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1670908740.jpg

i will show you guys all my tats but you'd have to seem interested...

I had tear drops when I was rough and tough. Due to age and lost of muscles those tear drops have become drool. People hassle me now thinking I am making fun of retarded folks but I am still the same tough killer.

Ah no, not for me but others who want to do so, good on them jsut don't come around asking for a job and if they don't get the job, don't cry discrimination due to poor life choices.

In the words of the immortal Kevin Bridges:

I'm standing right here and I'm judging you, you dumb c*nt.

tats don't bother me. I actually think they can be nice and artistic. I'm also all for them if they have meaning.

If I was single, I'd happily date chicks with tats and blue/green/purple hair, it wouldn't bother me one bit.

I don't have one or want one. It's just not my thing, but who cares if someone else has them. I think that you can get them in ways that is not ideal, but that's your choice. THere are plenty of people that are more successful than I am that have them, so that's clearly not completely limiting.

Tattoos, facial piercings, and green or bright colored hair are just something I do not understand. Man buns, or goofy haircuts as well. Like so many women now wearing jeans with multiple horizontal rips in the legs in them from new. I simply scratch my head and wonder. It does not compute in my brain. I do not "get" it at all. That is OK.

No tats or extra holes in my body, just my choice. If anyone over age 18 wants them in themselves, go for it. Like the old adage, not my circus, not my monkey. I don't care.

I do 100% understand that a military unit that served together in combat situations getting a company tattoo together. That is a bond outsiders like myself will never have.

The only thing I'd want less than a face tat at 60y is a circumsision!

Damned those 5000 year old fads...

The brightly colored hair is a relatively recent thing, although honestly, it's probably been 20 years now.
ripped jeans were in when I was in HS in the 80s, so we're talking about 4 decades.

You are a little bit of an old guy with pretty conventional, conservative standards.

I get it. Don't have one, don't care to but my son has one. Works for me.

However, the ratio to a tattoos that looks well done (never face or neck) to a tattoo Etch-a-Sketch rendering is about 50/50.

I wouldn't let Earl Scheib paint my car, just don't let any random Earl the Tattoo Guy paint you. Take your time and never, as the kids say, "drink and tattoo...no TUI's."

Just my advice.

As a former Navy guy from the 80's into the 2010 time frame, I have seen some unfortunate decisions indelibly stamped.

I don't care if someone has tattoos, I don't because it is just not my thing, that's about it.

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