Tattoo Regret: The Stink Over Ink
Posted by: Simcha Whitehill
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4:00PM, Tuesday July 22nd 2008
While women like the cool Kat Von D of LA Ink are responsible for the rise in tattoos, ladies are still feeling the backlash from going under the needle. A 2006 survey conducted by Texas Tech found that while 25% of people ages 18-30 have a tattoo, 40% of women with works of art feel social pressure to get them removed. Compared to 5% of men who claim they’ve been teased, it seems like the new glass ceiling is a bit more skintimate. Now, we can understand if a lady regrets an eBay auction where she sold a casino the right to tattoo their URL on her forehead, but overall, it’s disheartening that we can’t get our lower back tattooed without it being called a tramp stamp. Let’s unite and take back the lower back tat for classy women! You know if Paris Hilton doesn’t want a trendy tat, especially one inherently nicknamed for sluts, then they must only be for the supremely lady-like! [LA Times via Fark]
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Annika Harris
wrote on July 23 2008 @ 07:49 am: [report]
I have five tattoos, but I haven’t felt any pressure to get them removed. Most of them are covered by clothing while I’m at work. I have one in my ear that people hardly notice and one on my foot that is obviously difficult to hide in the summer. I think I work in a creative enough field that tattoos aren’t an issue. I’m not a fan of the tramp stamp, though, but I understand how the name has sexist connotations. Too many women have tattoos there already. I was in a parlor and was trying to convince this 16-year-old not to get her name(ugh) tattooed there, but she didn’t listen because she wanted to be just like her mommy, who had several other cheap-looking tattoos. A classy woman wouldn’t wear a top that exposed her lower back, so we would never know she had a tattoo there, unless she was in a swimsuit.
Budlight Lime Gal
wrote on July 23 2008 @ 07:54 am: [report]
I’ve been wanting a tattoo for a while now, just need to know that when I’m 65-70 I’m still going to like it.
Amelia
wrote on July 23 2008 @ 08:03 am: [report]
I have two tattoos and if I could go back in time I wouldn’t get them. I don’t hate them, per se, but I regret getting them. For the record, they are Chinese characters. I am not Chinese. The first one says love, and the one below it roughly means “alone”—I wanted solitude but there wasn’t a character for that, so I tried to find the closest thing. Idiotically, if you read the characters together, they roughly translate to mean “masturbation”. Now do you see why I regret them?