BS: Tattoos on Women

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Musket
Date: 10 Aug 14 - 09:00 AM

I don't recall her being a skinhead (though to be fair, I can't really recall anything physical other than the tattoos,) but the role wasn't for her. She could rattle on about force, g, frequency, bracing and other aspects of vibro engineering all day but I almost guarantee a factory manager wouldn't invest a couple of hundred grand on our machinery on her technical advice, however good it was.

If she was hot, I wouldn't know. I was wanting to employ someone , not fuck them.

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Aug 14 - 09:50 AM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Lighter
Date: 10 Aug 14 - 10:20 AM

Haven't checked lately, but my decided impression is that *no* serious US TV commercials for mainstream products feature an obviously tattooed model, male or female.

Since the ad-makers are finely attuned to what will impress or turn off consumers, this tells me that tattoos are still generally disdained.

For now.

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Aug 14 - 11:27 AM

So how would prehistoric tribal mankind accidently discover the tattooing process
and immediatley think it kinda cool and rock 'n' roll ???

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 10 Aug 14 - 11:43 AM

Lighter, UK ad agencies don't seem to have a problem with this. David Beckham, for one, is all over our tv screens in ad breaks.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Lighter
Date: 10 Aug 14 - 12:13 PM

I think I did see Beckham in a US ad once. But he was already a recognized celebrity.

Of course, there was the iconic "Marlboro man" in the '50s, a cowboy with a discreet back-of-the-hand tattoo of something or other.

But that was a unique attempt to show just how tough this imaginary smokin' cowpuncher really was, even though he was smokin' them (formerly sissy) *filtered* cigs.

At least one of the models later died of smoking-related illnesses, however.

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Lighter
Date: 23 Aug 14 - 02:21 PM

This caught my notice only because I'd just read Bubblyrat's description of his tattooed acquaintance.

In his WW1 diary-memoir, "There and Back" (1935) R. E. Lording mentioned a fellow Australian who had "a hunt scene tattooed on his back, but as the fox is disappearing into his hole you can only see the tail."

The year was 1915.

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 23 Aug 14 - 05:40 PM

At the risk of causing this thread to move above the line again, we're reminded of Peter Alsop's song "My Body" whose chorus is:

My body's nobody's body but mine

You run your own body, let me run mine!

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: DMcG
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 02:33 AM

The original question was not, I think, questioning whether a person had a right to have a tattoo or not. Most people, and I am certainly one, would accept the "my body is my own" argument, so if you want a tattoo, it is entirely your choice. But the question was asking how a viewer feels. Not the tattooed person. Personally, I do not usually find them attractive. But that is my personal preference, which always favours the natural over the artificial.

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 02:54 AM

One, or a few, tasteful* tattoo(s) can be quite attractive. I have always quite enjoyed occasionally finding a pretty flower or a ❤ or ❧ or ❦ or some such in an unexpected place on the body of a woman with whom I have succeeded in achieving that delightful degree of intimacy.

OTOH I personally find this fashion for footballers making one entire arm a display of some sort of doubtless meaningfully symbolic statement a rebarbatively filthy-looking turn-off; but if that's what they want to do with themselves, and their wives don't mind too much [or even perhaps find it attractive], then I suppose it's none of my put-in anyhow.

≈M≈

*& there's a cop-out of a word, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Musket
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 03:01 AM

She didn't perchance have HATE and ACAB (all coppers are bastards) tattooed on her knuckles Michael?

Just mentioned it because Gibb Sahib would like to meet her.

You randy philanthropist you....

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 03:36 AM

"so if you want a tattoo, it is entirely your choice"

While this is true, I have heard non-tattooed people being criticised by their tattooed companions for not going along with the current trend. I fear that some may give in to the pressure from others, and get a tattoo in order to be accepted, and may well regret it later.

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 05:00 AM

Thanks to this thread I've spent the last half hour looking through sites like THIS whilst pondering how they might relate to emergent concepts of Folk Art. I think we're in very dark & dangerous territory here - I heard one young chap once challenge his friend thus : "Are you reading my mum's tattoos?", which certainly put a different spin on the phenomenon. The ephemeral nature of the fashion for such things stands in stark contrast to the permanence (and general ghastliness) of the things themselves. Roll on, roll on ye autumn winds - which will have them covered up nice, at least in public...

As for ACAB, in my young day this became symbolised by four dots on the knuckles of (I think) the left hand - easier to self inflict during double French with a safety pin and a bottle of Quink.

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: GUEST,#
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 11:18 AM

It's vibrant anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 12:50 PM

Interesting that the NHS (Britain) don't want you to give a blood donation if: You've had a tattoo, semi-permanent make up or any cosmetic treatment that involves skin piercing in the last 4 months.
Here

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: open mike
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 02:41 PM

Both of my daughters are pregnant and we recently held a double baby shower where they both got henna designs on their bellies .. and several others got designs on their hands arms and backs. henna tattoo artist who decorates pregnant bellies This artist will only do belly designs on pregnant mammas.
Mine is still on my arm, but fading a bit after a couple of weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: Musket
Date: 25 Aug 14 - 03:49 AM

Nigel. The NHS issue is due to licensing of tattoo parlours not being through health based regulators but through environmental health, which is more premises based rather than client safety through the process.

I was involved a few years ago in the discussions regarding whether to bring them under what would now be CQC registration. It was decided not to, but the then Health Protection Agency decided that instead, they had to be classes as a potential blood borne virus risk.

To be fair to the industry, most high street ones use single use needles and latex gloves, but the needlestick risk for the artist remains high. The risks for the customer are rather low though. NHS Blood have a number of risks they reject on, and although we never went to malarial areas, the only times Mrs Musket and I couldn't give blood was within six months of being in Thailand and South Africa.

Of course, not all tattoos are sold in licenced premises....

Subject: RE: BS: Tattoos on Women
From: GUEST,#
Date: 25 Aug 14 - 05:03 AM

But grandma, . . .