What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!

[Vash]

This is sound advice.

At this point I am sleeved on both arms from knuckles to shoulders, tattooed on the right side of my neck/head and now have my right shin covered completely. I've gone too far to turn back now  

I love the art I've collected and look forward to what I'll collect next.

A little encouragement for my SLY tattooed brothers.

[Slyfive]

That is EXACTLY how I feel, thanks for sharing Vash. I hope to be fully suited up by then, when you've reached that age, why not wear your story on your skin!

[Blitzed]

I didn't start getting tats until I was in my sixties. I've now got ten and the number is only going to grow. You can't have just one and I don't. The up side is that mine will look fresh for some little while, easily last until I'm up for a "viewing" prior to the cremation. I don't regret them although I worry about the very young and if having them may have an impact on their future.

Here's a really bad thing; Rapper 50cent took boxer Floyd Mayweather's son to get his arms fully tatted up with gang signs. The kid is 13. Mayweather was annoyed but only because his son was out until 2:30 am on a school night. PJ

[Natedawg]

Nice! 

I personally don't have any tats. I've been wanting to get one (or more) for years... Problem is, I can't think of anything I want on my body for the rest of my life. Is what I pick still gonna have meaning to me 30 years later when I'm in my 60s? I know it's probably one of those things where you have to just a take a leap the first time, but I'm still apprehensive... Waddayagonnado?

[buddha]

easily last until I'm up for a "viewing" prior to the cremation.

Exactly what I'm thinking.

Also, if a tat has meaning for me today that's what counts for me. If I'm still sucking wind in 20 or 30 years and I am past that stage that is signified by the tat so be it. It doesn't mean that I regret having it, it just means that I've progressed beyong the point I was at when I got the ink. It's still part of my story. That will never change.

[mopar400]

Good when they mean something.
Then you don't care what others think

[RoWilJr]

Brilliant!;)

[Frontier Guy]

Problem is, I can't think of anything I want on my body for the rest of my life.

I know that's the whole point. But I'd never be able to settle on a design, even if it could be altered into something different at a future time.

It's like being Sly. I'm committed, but I can always revert. Or piercings, they can always be removed.

[Vash]

Problem is, I can't think of anything I want on my body for the rest of my life. Is what I pick still gonna have meaning to me 30 years later when I'm in my 60s?

Y'know, I approach my tattoos more as my art collection, than anything else. Good art is good art and remains good art. Sometimes it just needs to look nice and that's enough. Sometimes 

[Slyfive]

Adding to Vash's point, and in answer to Nate, if it meant enough to get it inked in to your body at any point in your life, then it was obviously a significant force, and therefore something not to be regretted, but to be treasured as part of the changes in the life that you have lived. If you have changed so much that you cannot appreciate that side of things anymore, then perhaps you need to re-evaluate yourself, not your tattoos.

[Natedawg]

Y'know, I approach my tattoos more as my art collection, than anything else. Good art is good art and remains good art. Sometimes it just needs to look nice and that's enough. Sometimes 

That's a great way to look at it. 

Adding to Vash's point, and in answer to Nate, if it meant enough to get it inked in to your body at any point in your life, then it was obviously a significant force, and therefore something not to be regretted, but to be treasured as part of the changes in the life that you have lived. If you have changed so much that you cannot appreciate that side of things anymore, then perhaps you need to re-evaluate yourself, not your tattoos.

Well put. Can't argue with you there. Not that I'd want to, anyway. 

[Slyfive]

Well put. Can't argue with you there. Not that I'd want to, anyway. 

If only the Mrs. thought the same way! 

[Hingatao]

This is sound advice.

At this point I am sleeved on both arms from knuckles to shoulders, tattooed on the right side of my neck/head and now have my right shin covered completely. I've gone too far to turn back now  

I love the art I've collected and look forward to what I'll collect next.

A little encouragement for my SLY tattooed brothers.

I like it! I currently have 5 tatts with plans for at least 3 more in addition to expanding a current tatt into a half sleeve.

[TyMoore122]

Got mine with my shipmates in the service, now that a I am older going to get it reinked as it has faded over the last 20 years....
Cheers!
Ty

[sfty.dude]

When I get older I could care less about what people think of me or my tattoos.  The only thing that I am nervous about (not really nervous just the first word that popped into my head) about one of my tattoos is the one on my back.  I use to DJ back in high school and early year in college and on a whim I got my DJ name tattoo'ed on my back.  So on my back when I am 83 years old I am going to have a tattoo that says "Kidd Cartel"

kind of funny actually.