How do you feel about tattoos?

Tak

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I know we have a large age range on here. I was just wondering how you see people with tattoos. I grew up with a mom who said that tattoos made you trash. I also know many people who have them and they are very tasteful.
Personally, I'm a 'to each their own' type of person. I don't judge anyone's chosen lifestyle. We each get to live our own lives for better or worse. In the end what matters is only that you were who you wanted to be and the impressions that you leave with those who matter to you.
 
Tattoo are fine in my book. However I am not one for the facial kind. Its to each there own but my mind has this how though come to it. Like that had to hurt big time but if it make the person happy go for it.
Personally I am scared to death of needles so I would never get a tattoo. I cant even stand to get blood taken at the doc.
I do love Henna Tattoo a lot and get them when I can they make me feel good and I love changing them up and all.
 
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I once let a paramedic in training practice trying to start an iv on me. He asked permission and I was his first live person, non med student, and the poor guy tried four times before the nurse said he couldn't anymore.
 
my vein collapses like so many toothpicks when they try to do a IV or take blood. I have to have a Tiny tiny needle or I am black and blue for weeks.
 
I have grave's disease. Blood draw every two weeks for six months then every month for a year now every three months. My poor vein got scarred.
 
It's not really that bad.
 
I have to take iron through a IV due to my Anemia and if I take it orally it make me super sick and have colon spasms. If you have never had those feel lucky they hurt like heck.
 
I once let a paramedic in training practice trying to start an iv on me. He asked permission and I was his first live person, non med student, and the poor guy tried four times before the nurse said he couldn't anymore.
You're a brave soul. I am a nurse, and I don't do IVs regularly with my job, and it shows. I suck at them, and I personally hate when they don't get it right away because they think it best to pull the needle back and move it around. I think I just get nervous that people are watching me. I had to put an IV in a guy who was unconscious in the ER during my rotation there and got it right away. I can handle the initial poke even though I have always s hated needles (being on blood thinners gets you lots of blood tests), but start digging and you're done.

Back to the topic. I like tattoos to an extent. I don't mind if someone has them here or there but if they've got their head, throat, basically every inch of skin, then it's no dice. It goes from cool and artistic to "where is your face?" lol. I worked with a resident last year who had tribal tattoos on his arms, and I remember some of the other nurses talking about him like it made him a bad doctor. Ok, many think it's unprofessional, but if he's good at his job, then who cares? My aunt and uncles old pastor went around visiting his "flock" when he first started at their church, and my cousin's gramma lived with them at the time. She answered the door when he came and I think she almost fainted when he said that he was the new pastor at their church, lol. He even had a handlebar mustache!

I want a tattoo but haven't gotten it yet. I actually want my avatar picture but with my horse's color and markings on it. I always wanted one on my hip/pelvis but not as much since I have gained weight since high school. I don't know where I would want to put it, therefore, I still do not have one.
 
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You're a brave soul. I am a nurse, and I don't do IVs regularly with my job, and it shows. I suck at them, and I personally hate when they don't get it right away because they think it best to pull the needle back and move it around. I think I just get nervous that people are watching me. I had to put an IV in a guy who was unconscious in the ER during my rotation there and got it right away. I can handle the initial poke even though I have always s hated needles (being on blood thinners gets you lots of blood tests), but start digging and you're done.

Back to the topic. I like tattoos to an extent. I don't mind if someone has them here or there but if they've got their head, throat, basically every inch of skin, then it's no dice. It goes from cool and artistic to "where is your face?" lol. I worked with a resident last year who had tribal tattoos on his arms, and I remember some of the other nurses talking about him like it made him a bad doctor. Ok, many think it's unprofessional, but if he's good at his job, then who cares? My aunt and uncles old pastor went around visiting his "flock" when he first started at their church, and my cousin's gramma lived with them at the time. She answered the door when he came and I think she almost fainted when he said that he was the new pastor at their church, lol. He even had a handlebar mustache!

I want a tattoo but haven't gotten it yet. I actually want my avatar picture but with my horse's color and markings on it. I always wanted one on my hip/pelvis but not as much since I have gained weight since high school. I don't know where I would want to put it, therefore, I still do not have one.

I've had to have phlebotomistists have to pull the needle partially in and out multiple times on multiple occasions. My veins are worn out at the good spots. I had a draw from an artery once and that one hurt a little.

I agree about over doing the tattoos. All mine are easily covered by clothing if I want to. If you get one I suggest your calf just below the knee as one of the least painful, easily covered, easy to care for, and an area that doesn't tend to stretch much. My tattoo on my stomach is natural, lol, stretch marks! I don't think it's unprofessional to have tattoos as long as they are inoffensive (no nudity) and nothing on the head or hands. I'm not a fan of being completely covered.

I'm hoping to get my ponysona on my foot. It would be one I can't always cover. I can't anytime soon, though. My mother would kick us out of the house we rent from them faster than you can blink.
 
For me I would never get a tattoo. I don't have anything against them as long as they are not horror, evil looking or represent gangs and criminal behavior. I also don't like tattoos that honor symbols that represent the worst of our historical war/race related organizations, governments or stuff like that. R2 has two tattoos. I was brought up that you didn't mark up your skin like this. Old fashioned upbringing, but its more than that for me. I don't like things on me that I can't get off. Its a bit of a phobia I have. I can't wear false nails for this reason.
 
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Each to his own. I wouldn't personally get one because I cannot imagine a single image or an idea that I would appreciate equally in two or three decades from now; I'm such a different person today than I was ten years ago - permanence is definitely not my thing. If I were to tattoo anything on my body, it would be names of people I think - grandparents, parents, nephews/nieces, children - assuming that I wouldn't for some reason despise them in another ten years - ha ha ha!
 
Each to his own. I wouldn't personally get one because I cannot imagine a single image or an idea that I would appreciate equally in two or three decades from now; I'm such a different person today than I was ten years ago - permanence is definitely not my thing. If I were to tattoo anything on my body, it would be names of people I think - grandparents, parents, nephews/nieces, children - assuming that I wouldn't for some reason despise them in another ten years - ha ha ha!

I have my daughter's initials (she has four), and her name wrapped around a broken heart because she's been holding mine together.
 
I have one and I wouldn't mind getting another but I don't know if/when it'll happen. It took me forever to decide on my first one, I know it's permanent so I wanted to make sure it was something I wouldn't mind in 30 years or place it somewhere I might regret. In the end I settled on a round, celtic knot in black, about 6" diameter in between my shoulder blades. I've had it for about 16 years and still no regrets. It could stand to be touched up, a little fading has happened over the years but I swear the older I get the more I'm aware of painful things. When I was younger nothing bothered me, as I've gotten older I found myself being more apprehensive of stuff like that so it'll have to wait until I work up the nerve to sit there for hours getting stabbed in the back again LOL
 
I have one and I wouldn't mind getting another but I don't know if/when it'll happen. It took me forever to decide on my first one, I know it's permanent so I wanted to make sure it was something I wouldn't mind in 30 years or place it somewhere I might regret. In the end I settled on a round, celtic knot in black, about 6" diameter in between my shoulder blades. I've had it for about 16 years and still no regrets. It could stand to be touched up, a little fading has happened over the years but I swear the older I get the more I'm aware of painful things. When I was younger nothing bothered me, as I've gotten older I found myself being more apprehensive of stuff like that so it'll have to wait until I work up the nerve to sit there for hours getting stabbed in the back again LOL


I'm the opposite. I've lived with pain of various levels every day since I was 17. Now it takes more to even feel pain. Physical pain anyway.
 
Happy early Christmas to me. I'm pretty happy with it. Now I'll be able to take my ponysona everywhere.
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Sorry it's not a great picture. Still oiled up to help it heal and a bit pink from being new.
Now my shadow whispers is with me everywhere. ;)
 
OOOOH NICE NICE
 
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I personally love tattoos! I think they're a great way to decorate and celebrate your body. For me personally, it's also a way to reclaim my body as a survivor of child abuse.

I currently have 3 tattoos - a heart with wings and crossbones across my upper back (the wings "flap" when I wiggle my shoulders), an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake on my left leg from ankle to hip, and a black cat on top of the number 13 on my shoulder. I want a lot more, though!
 
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