I'm 44 years old so have been around long enough to see fads come and go.
Tattoos like everything else come in and out of fashion; you see a guy who had his done in the 80s or before and they look really dated and lame.
So what happens now? The next batch of youngsters coming up will look at their older siblings or even parents and their fashion will go in the opposite direction as each generation wants to stamp it's own identity, the styles of tattoo will change fashion or they may go out of fashion altogether - and you're stuck with whatever you've got if you're heavily tattooed.
Once your t-shirt has gone out of fashion you can use it to clean your windows, once your skin has gone out of fashion what are you going to do then?
The body piercing thing of a few years ago has died off big time. You can remove an earring from your arse or wherever and it won't leave too much of a mark once you get bored of it, you can't remove a tattoo from your arse quite so easily.
When you start seeing loads of middle aged people latch on to a fashion you know it's on borrowed time...
Listen to your Nan, she was young once and now has the benefit of years of experience and wisdom.
Im, sorry but i dont agree with this at all. Those that really put thought into their tattoos arent following a fashion. You see people with all different things from all ages. Japanese styled tattood have been around for a very long time. Im guessing you have none and maybe dont realise that not all tattoos are from a book and certainly they arent dated. If you have children then i am sorry to inform you that amongst them you will be known as the boring dad.
Well I must be a bit boring as I drive a Golf!
But I'd consider a boring dad as one of those guys who pulls a football shirt down over his 46'' waist and climbs into his Citroen Picasso then puts on some naff commercial radio station.
I do still have a bit of fire in my belly, I may drive the worlds most boring car model but it's done out nicely and attracts a hell of a lot of attention from all sorts of people. I still listen to indie music and champion up and coming bands, and am still slim enough to slip into non OAP style clothes. So my lads and their mates don't consider me
that boring. Okay, they're teenagers so probably think I'm an arsehole, but that's just normal!! And they'd have a point!
But I am 44, three of my sisters have tattoos and I've been round plenty long enough to know lots about tattoos and lots of other things in life so don't make assumptions about me.
Just a friendly warning to youngsters Mr Wherry - don't come crying to me in 20 years time when you're bored of the ink and would look like a burns victim if you got it all removed!
ETTO but think carefully before going overboard on stuff like this. You DO change as the years go by.
When I was 19 I drove a BBS bodykitted mk1 GTI that had full Konis and a heavily modified engine. I'd feel a tit if I drove that car now and the hard suspension would drive me insane. If I still sported the tattoo I wanted when I was 19 I'd probably feel a tit with that too. The world moves on, fashions move on...
