How many here have never had a tattoo?

[Lil Missy]

I feel like such an outcast. But I have never had any interest whatsoever to get one.

I guess I am a lightweight like that. Oh well.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. I don't have one...yet.

But I am pretty much locked on getting MrG's signature over my heart.

[Lil Missy]

11. And I can understand that.

:hug:

My ex used to suggest it, an even offer to pay for it. And then she would beat me, and get arrested and for Domestic Violence and go to jail in the meantime.

Suffice it to say, I didn't want her goddamned name tattooed on my body.

She's gone on to make a couple other women miserable in the last year, tattoos and all. I just keep my mouth shut.

edited for clarity.

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. I think you made a wise decision.

:hug:

This is just a feeling of wanting to keep him with me, in a physical sense, or something...that I have been thinking about.

I am glad you are no longer in that relationship. :hug:

[Lil Missy]

30. Well, my son would be a different matter, but I don't want it marked on my body.

I don't want it that obvious or brought up by other people. It's just too personal for me. But I have memorials set about my house that are only privy to me, family, and the very few friends I allow into my home or space.

I even hate the graveyard shit, with a passion. I don't want to stand over his rotting bones, I'd very much prefer the pictures and memorials to him in my own house.

:hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

55. That's why I figured the heart would be a personal spot that

no one would see but me. We didn't do a burial with MrG. Right now I'm not at a photograph in the house stage. I had to take them all down, for now, because it killed me to see us.

[Lil Missy]

98. And Laura, I'm sorry that I came across rather grouchy and dragged my own baggage into this.

I think it is wonderful and very sweet of you to want his name tattooed against your heart.

Whatever works for any individual that has lost a close loved one is wonderful as far as I'm concerned.

:hi: :hug:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

99. Yeah I like groups of pictures.

The eastern idea of remembering our ancestors and others who have passed on.
The people who we remember who influenced us for good.

I have a whole tabletop full of those people.

:hug:

You can get electric incense burners (with incense sticks with light bulbs on the end) at big oriental markets.

[SPKrazy]

2. I don't have one

but maybe I'll get one soon

and pierce my ear

and get a Harley

and a sports car

and just have a total mid life makeover

:shrug:

[harmonicon]

6. you should see....

if you could get the tattoo artist to give you one while riding your harley on a treadmill in your sports car that you'll be speeding in on the way to pick of the piercer. You guys will be the baddest bunch in town.

[Lil Missy]

32. I'm sure that would be interesting to some. But I'm neither interested in a Harley or guys.

I'm just queer, and rather boring like that.

edit to correct spelling.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Start with a whole new wardrobe.

;) :hug:

[SPKrazy]

12. But that involves getting dressed first

:P


:D

:hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. They have pajamas that look like clothes now...almost.

I'm an expert on those. :)

[SPKrazy]

20. Cool then I could

not really have to think about what to wear or whatever just put on my jammies and go to the store :scared:

I think I'll just turn on the puter :D

:rofl:

;)

[Lil Missy]

17. I have pierced ears! Does that count? And I also drive a sports car.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

I just don't do tattoos. :(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Yo! Lil Missy!

I have NEVER had one, and have no desire to have one either!

You're no lightweight...

Nor are you an outcast!

Well, if you are, then I am too...

We can be outcasts together, OK?

:hug:

[Lil Missy]

21. Sure Peg. We can be outcasts together.

:D

I'm a total puss, and I don't have a problem with that.

Gawd, if I had agreed to that, I'd have a name painted on me that has made a couple other lives miserable since then. Whew!

[Heidi]

4. I've never had a tattoo.

I think so body art and body modification is very artistic and beautiful, but I'm almost certain I would regret getting a tattoo. I try to create as few regrets for myself as possible. Maybe I'm a lightweight, too. :shrug:

:hi: Lil Missy! So glad you survived the storms! :hug:

[Lil Missy]

27. Thanks Heidi!

I do like the tats on some people. I am not totally against them.

But a personal one in an unstable relatonship, no way!

Thank you, we did survive the storms with moderate damage. We have someone coming tomorrow to cut up the tree, haul it all away, and fix the damage done to the house and the fence.

My mom is 76 nd lives with me too, so I had to worry about getting her to shelter too. After it was all over and the power was gone, she simply pulled out a flashlight to read a book.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

She was fine! I was the one jonsin' for an Internet or TV fix! AND COFFEE!

And on a side note, I got up to go to the biffy in the middle of the night, and lost my way and ended up in her bedroom, which is WAY past the bathroom. She just handed me a flashlight and was very calm about it.

Thank god for a cool head, otherwise I might have relieved myself in a laudry basket. Oops!

[yellowdogintexas]

69. you should hear my daughter on the subject of name tattooing in

unstable relationships.

She used to tell me all the time about how she would try to diplomatically discourage a woman from putting her new boyfriend's name on her body...then 6 or 8 months later, here comes this woman again needing to:

1. Cover up the existing name with a picture and
2. Tattoo on someone else's name in a different location.

My daughter's advice to all: The only name you should put on your body permanently is that of your child(ren) or your mother.

*************Please note: situations like MrsGrumpy are exceptions to the norm and would not be discouraged*************************************


However you should see the big ole octopus she has on her thigh. I want her to send me some photos, it is pretty wild looking.

[MorningGlow]

5. I'm unmarked

I'm not afraid of pain; I just never felt driven to get one. And I think there was a bit of rejecting the peer pressure of my coven--for a while everyone was getting tattoos, like a bandwagon thing. I don't jump on bandwagons. I stand on the side of the road and make rude gestures as they go by.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. I have a tattoo, with more to come, but not having one is no reason to feel like an outcast.

It's a personal choice.

[harmonicon]

9. me

I thought about getting one last year, but it just never happened, and I'm not in any rush. I won't say that I'll never get one, but I'm not planning on it either.

[Common Sense Party]

10. I've never had one, and will never get one.

Don't want one, don't need one, don't particularly like them, and I'm certainly not going to pay money for them.

[DarkTirade]

13. I have several planned...

but have never been in a financial situation to actually get 'em.

Four definite, with a possible fifth.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Not yet

Been wantin' one for years, but haven't had the $.

[petronius]

18. I don't have any, and don't want one

There's no need to feel like an outcast - people like all sorts of different things, and we'd go batshit crazy if we felt diminished by every taste we didn't share...

[csziggy]

19. No tatoos, no pierced ears

Just lots of scars from old injuries.

[Fox Mulder]

22. I never had one, but I'm interested in getting a few.

One of a pentacle, one of a triquetra, and one of a Celtic knot.

[pokerfan]

23. I don't have one

I was going to get a Calvin tat back in the day but I'm kind of glad I didn't. He turned into that character in unlicensed bumper stickers always pissing on Fords and Chevys.

[FloridaJudy]

24. I have one

But it's in a rather discrete place - you can see it in a bathing suit or sundress, but not in scrubs. I didn't want to freak out any little old ladies who'd have feared having fallen into the lair of Biker Nurse. Now that I'm pretty much an LOL myself, tattoos are not all that uncommon in professionals. I'm lucky: mine's rather lady-like and easily covered. I know of an investment banker who has a flaming skull on his forearm. The guy is pretty well condemned to wearing long sleeves at work for the rest of his life.

It's a personal decision. People who judge you for a lack of one, need to butt out. And if you're working undercover or something, there are scads of temporaries around.

[krispos42]

25. I'm a blank canvas

And like being that way, thank you.

I've also always been clean-shaven with fairly short hair.

I look like freakin' missionary!

[lildreamer316]

26. No tats for me.

I don't want to be looking at them all wrinkled and stuff when I'm 85.

[bicentennial_baby]

28. I have 3, and am planning on one more

That may be it, we shall see.

It's not for everyone. I like them. :)

[just a girl]

29. Still tattoo free.

[last_texas_dem]

31. I don't have one

I just don't understand the appeal, but different strokes for different folks and all... It's also partly that I'm not sure there's anything I could say with 100-percent certainty that I know I'd want to have drawn on my body for the rest of my life, and partly that I wouldn't want to go through the process of getting it done in the first place.

[SeattleGirl]

33. I never have, but I want one.

I'd like to get a yin-yang symbol sort of like the avatar I have.

[AccessGranted]

34. I have 3 and want some more

And I didn't start getting them until I was almost 40.

[moriah]

35. I have not yet decorated my temple.

I do want to get a tat, though - white roses and ivy around my ankle.

It will likely be difficult if not impossible to do white roses very easily.

[yellowdogintexas]

70. white is doable, especially if you are fair of skin.

My daughter's octopus tattoo has quite a bit of white in it. It just may take several sittings to get it to look the way you want it

[ldr65]

36. No tats here!

[Heidi]

37. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Doug.Goodall]

38. Duplicate delete

[Doug.Goodall]

39. Never had a tattoo

I am a little old to start now, so I will never have one either.

[NMDemDist2]

40. I don't have one and won't be getting one either

I don't think :shrug:

[Eurobabe]

41. Me neither. Absolutely no interest

I am no lightweight, just a germophobe. The idea of contracting diseases through tattoo equipment doesn't appeal to me in the least.

[terrya]

42. My boyfriend told me he'd dump me if I got a tattoo.

So, that alone is reason enough.

I've never had the slightest inclination to get one.

[hobbit709]

43. On certain government forms

Tattoos and other distinguishing marks" is one I was always able to leave blank.
I don't want to be easily identifiable.

[cabbage08]

44. I've thought about getting one but never found anything I liked n/t

[Wcross]

45. I want to leave my career options open so NO Tattoos for me!

Who knows, I may want to become a criminal mastermind someday. It's hard to maintain your criminal viability when you have identifying marks. Plus you have to PAY for a tattoo & I am too cheap to do that. Also, I hear they are pretty much permanent which would suck. When I was in the Marine Corps a lot of guys were getting tattoos, usually with something pretty lame written under them like "death before dishonor" I wonder what the tat looks like now 20 years later???LOL.

[Bennyboy]

46. My grandpa had one that said "Esther"....He was married to

Ethel and she never ever let him forget it. One of the only memories of him in fact was that tattoo. He tried to get rid of it in every way possible. Sandpaper, rock salt etc. Nothing worked and he died with Esther on his arm.

So seeing that as a young child, I never desired one.

Later, in High School, my best friend got a tat that said "Wendy" on his shoulder after his girlfriend. She took one look at it and dumped him on the spot. He got another tat to cover it up, and another and another. Now he is covered head to toe with tats. They are really beautiful and he owns one of the country's best known tattoo shops. (Wild Bill's). The NBA players when they come to Sacramento always go to Bill For tats.... He doesn't do them anymore, he has a large staff now. He is more like a media whore and schill for his place.

Wild Bill

[mnhtnbb]

47. My 18 yo son was told "no display of tattoos" at the ice cream store where he works.

No tatts on his Mom.

[Lyric]

48. Don't have one, don't want one.

I like my skin just the way it is. I have no problem with tattoos on other people (which is a good thing, 'cause ThinkBlue1966 is covered in them!) but it's not for me.

:hi:

[bikebloke]

49. Blank canvas, and it's going to stay that way.

If I want decoration, I can wear a printed T-shirt. By the time the T-shirt wears out, I'm tired of the design. So it works out. A tattoo is forever...unless you're one of those people who aren't immortal.

[I Have A Dream]

50. Besides permanent eyeliner, I don't have any either. nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

51. Don't have one, don't want one.

Sometimes I think about maybe getting one, but then I figure I'd get tired of it after a while, so what's the point.

[malta blue]

52. no ink here ...

No interest in getting one either.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

53. I don't have one and don't particularly want one.

I'm needle-phobic (:7), but I also don't like the idea of having ink in my skin, and, frankly, in my personal opinion, I like regular, unmarked skin just fine, though of course I know others don't think so, and I DO think some tattoos can look beautiful. Just not for me.

[Tikki]

54. No tattoos here....

One husband, two grown sons, a dog and me.



Tikki

[femmocrat]

56. Never did. Never will.

Not for me.

[Starry Messenger]

57. I like them

But I've never had the nerve. I designed two for my husband though that he sports on his actual flesh now though!

MPK

[JTG of the PRB]

58. I haven't been inked.

Though, when I was 17, I did go to a tattoo parlor just out of curiosity. I was too young at that point to do it myself, but my mom was willing to sign the release paperwork so I could get it done. In the end, I decided I wasn't ready because that's sort of a big commitment.

I guess I could never really find a design that I was so passionate about that I wouldn't mind having it on my body for the rest of my life.

[Blue Gardener]

59. Don't have one and never will

Don't want to deal with buyer's remorse. They're a little hard to take back if you don't like it.

[Hangingon]

60. Never felt the need.

[MrScorpio]

61. I don't have a real one

But, I do have an ink dot embedded in my hand. Part ans parcel the risks of an artist.

I met another dude who had the same thing once.

[hyphenate]

62. I don't have one either

Although there are times when I envision a little one right over my heart of a pegasus or a winged kitty (pegapus!). I used to want it to be a butterfly, but the pegasus and pegapus would mean more to me.

[noel711]

63. I'm with you, Missy..

I can admire the artwork on others,
admire their bravado, and confidence.
I can be 'wowed' by a supple body, and a tattoo
highlighting their physical frame.

BUT...
My dad was a navy man; when he aged, his tattoo did also.
And it was sad...
I see women older than myself with tatts, and
it calls attention to their aging flesh.

I am already over the hill;
I try to do my best to detract attention from my
obvious signs of aging, and do not need an artful
tattoo to draw the eye to my physical infirmities.

So, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

[RevolutionaryActs]

64. Nope.

Sometimes I think it would kind of cool to have one (and I know exactly what I would get if I did get one), but the rest of the time if kind of freaks me out since it's there forever.... what if I come to hate it in five years? :o

[elshiva]

65. No tats. Nothing against it, but no thanks.

[Orsino]

66. None...that I know of.

No interest in getting one.

[yellowdogintexas]

67. no tattoo, doubt I will ever have one. My daughter is a tattoo artist and even

she has not talked me into one.

I can't really come up with anything that I would like on my body permanently, although I have seen some that are quite lovely (as well as some that are excruciatingly painfully ugly.)

[Left Is Write]

68. I do not now have a tattoo,nor have I ever had a tattoo, nor do I intend to get a tattoo.

[BooScout]

71. I don't have one.....and I have NEVER OWNED A CELL PHONE either

I hate phones..........cell phones or land line phones.........I hate em all and refuse to own one.....and I don't like needles or putting ink on my body.

[Rhythm]

72. Mixed marriage... i'm inked, Oktoberain isn't.

I have 3 large ones, and want more. Oktoberain has never wanted to do so.

[Forkboy]

73. None, and they're way to trendy now to get one.

Love the artwork on many of them though.

[Ekirh]

74. None here at all . .

Just not that interested in them. Same with any form of piercing.

[Cabcere]

75. I've never had one either, Lil Missy

Although one summer I tricked my dad into thinking I had gotten one on my ankle...haha, good times. :P (He actually took the news surprisingly well, which I suppose is good news if I ever decide to get one, although like you I've never really had the inclination.) :shrug: :hi:

[reyd reid reed]

90. Parents can be chock full o' surprises...

besides, if he thought it was real, he prolly figured it was a little late to be having a fit. When my oldest got his, I wasn't thrilled but it was there, so...what's done is done. He was over 18 and, ultimately it was his decision.

Same thing with my daughter -- I can't take an eraser and make 'em go away so I'm not going to have a screaming fit over 'em, but I was a little more vociferous with my objections to hers. She has someone's name on her and she's waaaaaay too young for that. She also has an unfinished piece on her calf. It's not horrible, but it's big. Right now it's just an outline but if she wants it finished, I've explained to her that she's going to have to wait until she's 18 and then she's going to get it finished professionally. Maybe I ought to take her just before she turns 18 (if she doesn't regret it by then) to make sure it's done professionally.

Hmmmmmm.

[Skittles]

76. naw, I'd never get one

I think they're ugly

[av8rdave]

77. No tattoo here

I don't like pain or permanence.

[pitohui]

78. no tattoo, i leave them to the conformists

be proud that you're not a conformist

[wickerwoman]

79. Oh please...

People get tattoos for lots of reasons that have nothing to do with peer approval.

I say, if you want one, get one. It doesn't hurt that much... it's just damn expensive and make sure you go someplace good because removal is a bitch.

If you don't want one, don't get one. Just don't act like it makes you better than anyone else.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

105. get over yourself. nt

[ghostsofgiants]

114. I really missed your self-righteous posts.

[MilesColtrane]

80. Don't have one.

Never any interest in getting one.

There's just no symbol out there that I deem such an integral part of my self-identity that I would want to permanently etch it into my skin.

That, and I always thought that I'd look like a jerk off when I'm eventually being wheeled around in the nursing home with a flaming purple skull on my forearm.

No malice to those who do ink though. More power to them.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

81. don't have one. don't want one. don't really get the appeal...but,

whatever :shrug:

they are ok to look at, I guess.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

82. Knot Eye. n/t

[BreweryYardRat]

83. Believe me, it's not for lack of wanting one.

I just want to get the money for it from a creative project. I want it to really mean something.

[Wcross]

84. Can a guy get a "tramp stamp"? n/t

[Critters2]

85. Don't have one. Don't want one. nt

[1gobluedem]

86. Me

Nor do I want one. Freckles will have to suffice.

[GRLMGC]

87. No

I've wanted one but I tend to scar badly so getting one might be a bad idea.

[NewJeffCT]

88. never had one, never will

no desire to do it.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

89. I don't have one

I do have a nose piercing, though.

[Kali]

91. I'd rather have a brand.

But it has all become too trendy for me.

Have you tried mehndi? (henna tattoo)

[Shine]

92. Me....but I've certainly considered it.

if I did one at all it would be small. :hi:

[Missy Vixen]

93. Oooh! Oooh! ME! ME!

First of all, I don't like pain. Secondly, I don't like permanent things. Well, I have pierced ears, but I can change my earrings whenever I want.

If I'd gotten a tattoo, I would have gone for the infinity symbol. Teeny. Somewhere it's hidden by clothing. Tiffany's made a necklace of the infinity symbol before; I'll probably go that route. It's expensive, but I can wear it when I want, and not wear it when I don't.

Julie

[struggle4progress]

94. Nope. Zip. Nada. Zilch

[Schema Thing]

95. I'm sans tat. tatless. devoid of ink. unscribed. a blank canvas. unpricked. all natural au natu

er... you get the idea.

I joke that someday I will get L O V E tattooed on my right knuckels, and

M O R E
L O V E

tattooed across my left knuckles.


I may someday get something meaningful wrt my daughter tattooed somewhere close to my heart.

[CBHagman]

96. I've threatened to get one...

...but recently I decided that I was seeing more unflattering tattoos than good tattoos, and more often than not, they can wind up looking like magic marker. So I have pretty much decided against making the tattoo part of my midlife crisis.

[Aristus]

97. Seven years in the U.S. Army, and not a single tat.

I still wonder sometimes how I managed it...

[MissMillie]

100. doesn't make you an outcast in my eyes

we all decorate our bodies differently. You choose not to use ink. No biggie at all.

[tjwmason]

101. Never had - don't intend to.

I've got no problem with others getting them, but it's just not my thing.

[Inchworm]

102. None here

Only because I would want an idea freehanded. Unless you are in prison or know an artist, that costs a lot of coin.

:hi:

[Courtesy Flush]

103. My generation wasn't into them

I'm still getting used to the idea that nice girls have tattoos. I remember when my brother first brought home a woman with tattoos. We were flabbergasted. She was a real skank. (don't flame me. That's the way it was back then)

Today really sweet girls have more tattoos than that skank. Just different times, I guess.

Now I have no objection to them, except one... they're permanent. fads come and go, and people will be spending big bucks on tattoo removal someday. Imagine if you had to commit to a mullet haircut for life! When I look at pictures of my 1970s haircut I appreciate the fleeting nature of fads.

[Iggo]

104. I had a nick-name...

...among a certain group of friends, way back when I had friends. By coincidence (and this almost never happens) there were four Dons in this group.

In my life I've been called (among other things) Long Hair Don, Mustache Don, Guitar Don. But in this case we were all long-haired, mustcahe sporting guitar players. And so I guess people went with the obvious:

No Tattoos Don.

[LanternWaste]

106. Say it loud and say it proud...

I've never had one and never will (outside of the odd Cracker Jack wash-off type when I was younger). I know that every five or ten years, my tastes end up changing drastically, and I'd hate to get myself stuck with a design that I wind up abhorring down the road, or being forced to shell out some of my rare disposable income to remove.

That, and I'm not really into decorative body mutilation... :evilgrin:

[Courtesy Flush]

107. I could never commit to anything enough for a tattoo

The only thing I'm consistent about is my wife (together for 30 years. Married for 25), but just watch -- if I got a tattoo with her name, she'd break the bad news to me the very next day (D'OH!)

[Symarip]

108. Count me out.

I have over 20.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

109. I don't

I think they're ugly.

[ghostsofgiants]

115. Well that's a pretty broad dismissal of tattoos.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

121. It's based on experience

I'd say about 90% of my friends and associates have them (as well as virtually everyone else in NYC), and I've never seen a single one that I found aesthetically pleasing.

It's nothing to do with stereotyping people who have them or anything (your response seems to indicate that maybe you think I feel that way); I just find the medium itself ugly. I once dated a woman who had a Magritte tattoo (I totally dig Magritte, nothing "ugly" about the image itself), but that tattoo especially bothered me -- mainly because I really liked the painting it was based on. Even if the basic image is aesthetically pleasing, the way things are rendered in tattoo -- I just don't like it. They're too faded and smudgy and not very vibrant. And that's why I'll never get one.

[ghostsofgiants]

122. I have the opposite experience.

If a person goes to a good artist, the tattoo will come out nice. Most of my friends have them as well and they, for the most part, look great to me. To each his/her own, i suppose.

[bif]

110. A tramp stamp? No way!

[southpaw]

111. No ink here

I came close a few years ago, but I decided to wait a few months to see if I still wanted one. Glad I waited.

Like some others here, I just don't want to commit to an almost permanent mark on my skin.

[KG]

112. i'm too prone to changing my mind for something that permanent.

heck, i even voted for ray-gun once. :eyes:

[redqueen]

113. I don't have one yet.

Someday, maybe.

[Beausoleil]

116. I'll wait till we get to the camps. n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

117. none here, I'll get mine in the camps

when the government is passing them out free

[Beausoleil]

118. GMTA! n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

119. LOL

I had not seen yours when I posted.

too funny

[Dogtown]

120. You could raffle parts of your anatomy!

And donate the proceeds!



spiderweb-on-elbow = $1 a ticket!