I gt my first tattoo at age 50 after wanting one for 30 years. Now I have two half sleeves, easily covered if I want, or easy to show in a t-shirt or sleeveless shirt. So if you want it, go for it. The three quarter sleeve shown will take about 16-20 hours to complete or 3 to 4 sittings. All the best.
Take my grandma's favorite advice : "what other people think of you is none of your business"
Daven has it exactly right: Other people's opinions of me are none of my business. I have gotten this question quite a few times over the years I have been tattooed:What in the HELL were you thinking?I have a simple reply:I was thinking that my tattoos are none of YOUR f***ing business!That usually ends the conversation.BTW I would be gentler to my grandmother, but she would never have asked ANYONE such a question!http://ta2guy.org/regret.htm
Quote from: Ta2Guy on February 04, 2014, 06:09:34 PMDaven has it exactly right: Other people's opinions of me are none of my business. I have gotten this question quite a few times over the years I have been tattooed:What in the HELL were you thinking?I have a simple reply:I was thinking that my tattoos are none of YOUR f***ing business!That usually ends the conversation.BTW I would be gentler to my grandmother, but she would never have asked ANYONE such a question!http://ta2guy.org/regret.htmTa2Guy - thanks for sharing this. I really enjoyed reading about your journey. I especially liked the "When I'm Sixty-four" piece.
As for getting tattooed at age 50, below is my third of four tattoos, including my first, I got while I was fifty.
I have 3 and want more, I would love a sleeve but as an attorney that is a problem. It's one thing not to care about what other people think about you, but because my job depends on me making a good impression to a decision maker, I try not to appear unprofessional. That being said, my partner is not crazy about them, but I am the one who has to live with it. I did not want to go through my life having wanted a tattoo and not being able to get one because my partner would disapprove. That would just make me resent him.I can tell you that my first one was small, but my second one was quite large. I was very self conscious about the second one for quite some time. By the time I got the 3rd (also on the large side), I kept forgetting about it after it healed until I looked down.
Quote from: BBCESQ on December 31, 2013, 11:04:40 AMI have 3 and want more, I would love a sleeve but as an attorney that is a problem. It's one thing not to care about what other people think about you, but because my job depends on me making a good impression to a decision maker, I try not to appear unprofessional. That being said, my partner is not crazy about them, but I am the one who has to live with it. I did not want to go through my life having wanted a tattoo and not being able to get one because my partner would disapprove. That would just make me resent him.I can tell you that my first one was small, but my second one was quite large. I was very self conscious about the second one for quite some time. By the time I got the 3rd (also on the large side), I kept forgetting about it after it healed until I looked down. I'm glad you like Don Quixote. I love the art itself, but I also love the sentiments behind it.I am a retired (since 2007) attorney and I had all of the ink I now have except my hands, neck and head while I was still in active practice.I practiced law in a small West Texas town and everyone knew about my tattoo, particularly after an article about me was published in the magazine Tattoo in 2004. When I wore a long sleeved shirt, my ink was hidden except that a little bit of my arm tattoos would slip out from time to time. No one ever commented of the little show of ink, but I really stirred up the lawyers in my local bar (in a pretty good way) and never believed it caused me a problem professionally.There is a district judge in Houston who is heavily tattooed.Both of the people in this picture are prominent attorneys in their communities (the man practices mostly in federal courts in San Francisco).I believe you can be a successful lawyer and get all of the tattoos you want as long as you stop two or three inches above your wrists and a little below your neck and no one will ever know as long as you stay buttoned up, remove your septum ring, and avoid appearing in tattoo magazines!