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Knobby said:
there's always laser removal, but I've heard that it's more painful than actually getting a tat done. Not sure what the cost would be, but am sure that it's more expensive that getting a tat.
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From what I've seen it's not a perfect removal either.
 
CapricornFarm said:
No thanks, just say no. You can get diseases from dirty needles. And once your skin starts to wrinkle, the tattoo won't look so hot. Plus, you may not want things you are interested in , on your skin when you are 40.
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This, sorta.
No one should be getting diseases from dirty needles in today's world unless you're getting work done in an alley behind a dumpster.
Not sure when the wrinkling starts that would effect them. I'm not there yet and I've had mine longer then some here have been alive.
What you want on your skin at 20 can definitely change when you're 40. I've seen that a lot. People change.
Not bashing you for your choice but that was my honest first thought.... wonder how they're gonna feel about a Pokémon character once they hit middle age or older?
I started getting mine when I was 20. At that age I was a long haired rock and rolling FTW biker trash. I scared people and didn't care. I got scarey biker tattoos. Gargoyles, serpent on a blade. Skeleton pirate. Tough stuff.
And I got lucky with my choices.
I have friends that got ridiculous stuff. Embarrassing stuff when they matured. Racist stuff. Some plain nasty stuff. Sure you'd say I'd never get anything like that. Nothing I'd later regret. Ya my friends said the same thing as they made their choices back then. You never know where life will lead you and ink is forever. Forever is a long time so choose wisely.
The biggest thing I didn't understand about tats is that they don't hold up. They don't age well.
I'd see people that were older when I started and their tats looked like crap. I honestly thought it's how it must have been in their day. The ink, the artists, the equipment probably wasn't that great 20 or 30 years before. I remember getting mine and thinking damn that looks like a picture. Such detail and such bright colors. I remember the first time I realized that they didn't stay that way. They fade slowly but one day I looked at a pic of me and my first son when he was a toddler. One tattoo jumped out at me for how bright and bold it was. Now 10 or so years later I looked down at it and was shocked at how faded it was. How the detailed lines weren't as crisp.
As the years past they've all deteriorated to different degrees. Colors have faded. Some colors have disappeared all together. The details and fine lines have started to be lost. If I look real close some parts wouldn't be recognized if I didn't know what they were.
I have no regrets and no one stares deep enough at mine to probably think much of them but I'd imagine by my end days they will be next to colorless and like me in my youth looking at those old timers tats people may scratch their heads thinking what even is that? Is it a skull and a what?
Not meant as a discouragement. Just my insight
 
The Moonshiner said:
This, sorta.
No one should be getting diseases from dirty needles in today's world unless you're getting work done in an alley behind a dumpster.
Not sure when the wrinkling starts that would effect them. I'm not there yet and I've had mine longer then some here have been alive.
What you want on your skin at 20 can definitely change when you're 40. I've seen that a lot. People change.
Not bashing you for your choice but that was my honest first thought.... wonder how they're gonna feel about a Pokémon character once they hit middle age or older?
I started getting mine when I was 20. At that age I was a long haired rock and rolling FTW biker trash. I scared people and didn't care. I got scarey biker tattoos. Gargoyles, serpent on a blade. Skeleton pirate. Tough stuff.
And I got lucky with my choices.
I have friends that got ridiculous stuff. Embarrassing stuff when they matured. Racist stuff. Some plain nasty stuff. Sure you'd say I'd never get anything like that. Nothing I'd later regret. Ya my friends said the same thing as they made their choices back then. You never know where life will lead you and ink is forever. Forever is a long time so choose wisely.
The biggest thing I didn't understand about tats is that they don't hold up. They don't age well.
I'd see people that were older when I started and their tats looked like crap. I honestly thought it's how it must have been in their day. The ink, the artists, the equipment probably wasn't that great 20 or 30 years before. I remember getting mine and thinking damn that looks like a picture. Such detail and such bright colors. I remember the first time I realized that they didn't stay that way. They fade slowly but one day I looked at a pic of me and my first son when he was a toddler. One tattoo jumped out at me for how bright and bold it was. Now 10 or so years later I looked down at it and was shocked at how faded it was. How the detailed lines weren't as crisp.
As the years past they've all deteriorated to different degrees. Colors have faded. Some colors have disappeared all together. The details and fine lines have started to be lost. If I look real close some parts wouldn't be recognized if I didn't know what they were.
I have no regrets and no one stares deep enough at mine to probably think much of them but I'd imagine by my end days they will be next to colorless and like me in my youth looking at those old timers tats people may scratch their heads thinking what even is that? Is it a skull and a what?
Not meant as a discouragement. Just my insight
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Do you think a quote or handwriting or other types of words would fade as much? Not that I’m getting one but just curious.
 

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