I clearly just don't understand the appeal of tattoos. If they were something like makeup you throw on temporarily for an event then sure whatever but... the permanent, painful, and expensive option is the one everybody chooses? To put a picture of a bird on your arm? Lmao why
I don't get it either.
I've also seen very few tattoos that were actually good aesthetically speaking. Actually, I can only think of one person who I know with a track record of 100% exceptionally beautiful tattoos—but she has a degree in art history so that makes sense. If people got beautiful tattoos all the time then I'd understand and would probably appreciate tattoos more. I think most piercings look cool, so I'm not totally against body modifications.
But most people just get the absolute shittiest things permanently tattooed onto their body and blanket themselves in it. I truly don't get it.
I have one friend who is an adrenaline junkie and he explained it as getting excited from the irresponsibility of getting something dumb permanently placed on your body. That's the only explanation I've heard that makes sense to me, but I also doubt it's true for most. Maybe just peer pressure or trends or something? Work of seeseepee on TikTok?
I know fascists love to hate tattoos for different reasons, including misogyny, so I want to emphasize I think people should have the right to modify their body as they like considering that it's theirs. But when these trads say that people are ruining their natural beauty (I realize this is code for "White beauty") by getting ugly tattoos, I kinda agree in a very limited way. I see it like getting a bad haircut but permanently. Okay, Bryan, I understand it's your choice how you want to style yourself and you want to try something different, but WHY DID YOU MAKE IT PERMANENT?
Again, if they are well-made tattoos then I can appreciate them and the desire for them but I also realize my opinion doesn't really matter. If people want to get tattoos, that's fine, not for me and I don't get it.
This one is Rick, from rickenmorty, and he’s burping. This one is V for Vendetta, he’s cool and like anonymous. This one is Monster, for Monster Energy, because I like to mix it with vodka and get turnt. And this one that looks like a funny pancake is a portrait of my daughter because she’s my life.
I had a nightmare that I got a poster for a movie tattooed onto my forearm as part of the ad campaign for the movie, I was horrified and just thought about how the money they paid me wasn't even close to worth it. Worse was my other arm had another poster for a different movie and I knew the movie tanked and was widely considered a bad movie.
I honestly don't think we're far from paid tattoo ads the way people do tattoos. But I still think the hundred little line tattoos look is the worst though. Sorry, I know it's generally popular among the Left.
Face tattoos always fuck with me, I can't remember seeing one that looked good except maybe ones with some cultural backing. Those are cool because it like, links you to your family and history and looks badass in a unity type way.
But like some random word done in some shitty cursive on your eyebrow? why? Some badly inked flowers snaking up past your eye? huh? At least a teardrop tattoo says something, an acknowledgment of mistakes and a deep shame you wear on your face. Just some notebook doodles permanently scribbled across your face? ooof.
If you get face tattoos, you just need to dedicate yourself to being a tattoo person, you need them everywhere, a full commitment to either the kayfabe life of an "alt-badass" or true dedication to a life of crime.
I recently just saw someone with a word, God knows which, tattooed under her jaw/chin all the way across in large, black cursive. Even at a slight distance it made it look like she had a neckbeard, which isn't a good look on absolutely anyone.
She's a punk covered in tattoos, some of which were good, so I don't think she really cares. But I kinda wonder if anyone stopped her beforehand and warned her that this one will just make her look like a neckbeard. No amount of crime or badassery makes neckbeards cool.