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Discussions About Being Bald => Tattoos and Piercings => Topic started by: Vash on June 29, 2012, 02:09:40 AM

Title: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Vash on June 29, 2012, 02:09:40 AM: This is sound advice.

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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 O0

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

A little encouragement for my SLY tattooed brothers.
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Slyfive on June 29, 2012, 04:45:52 AM: 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!
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Blitzed on June 29, 2012, 07:02:33 AM: 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
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Natedawg on June 29, 2012, 07:47:08 AM: Nice! O0

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?
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: buddha on June 29, 2012, 11:38:30 AM: Quote from: Blitzed on June 29, 2012, 07:02:33 AM
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.
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: mopar400 on June 29, 2012, 11:52:16 AM: Good when they mean something.
Then you don't care what others think
Title: Re: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: RoWilJr on June 29, 2012, 12:46:01 PM: Brilliant!;)
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Frontier Guy on June 29, 2012, 12:49:14 PM: Quote from: Natedawg on June 29, 2012, 07:47:08 AM
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.
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Vash on June 29, 2012, 04:04:28 PM: Quote from: Natedawg on June 29, 2012, 07:47:08 AM
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 ;)
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Slyfive on June 29, 2012, 04:56:00 PM: 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.
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Natedawg on June 29, 2012, 05:44:26 PM: Quote from: Vash on June 29, 2012, 04:04:28 PM
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. O0

Quote from: Slyfive on June 29, 2012, 04:56:00 PM
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. :D
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Slyfive on June 29, 2012, 08:23:19 PM: Quote from: Natedawg on June 29, 2012, 05:44:26 PM
Well put. Can't argue with you there. Not that I'd want to, anyway. :D

If only the Mrs. thought the same way! :XX
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Hingatao on June 30, 2012, 03:46:48 PM: Quote from: Vash on June 29, 2012, 02:09:40 AM
This is sound advice.

(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec9.pinterest.com%2Fupload%2F15903404904537133_Q8N23ktZ_f.jpg&hash=d6c92142c6b28ea2c0160cd2b4309be83c54e71c)

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 O0

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.
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: TyMoore122 on June 30, 2012, 04:10:34 PM: 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
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: sfty.dude on July 08, 2012, 11:26:43 AM: 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.
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Frontier Guy on July 08, 2012, 04:41:18 PM: Not that it matters, but who's to say you won't integrate the existing tat into a "new and improved" piece of artwork? It could happen ...
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Mikekoz13 on July 08, 2012, 05:13:14 PM: I'll comtinue to enjoy mine!!
Title: Re: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: RoWilJr on July 08, 2012, 07:00:11 PM: Keep on enjoying my ink work...
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: waine on July 12, 2012, 06:47:08 AM: I am on the same team as those who want a tattoo, but do not know what to depict. I just cannot think of anything with that much "meaning" that it deserves a permanant place on my body.
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: TxTa2Guy on August 12, 2012, 04:59:20 PM: My take on growing old with tattoos is posted on my web sit at http://ta2guy.org/sixty-four.htm (http://ta2guy.org/sixty-four.htm). I wrote that several years ago and I agree with it more all the time. I sure won't ever look like every other old bastard! How can I be so sure? Because I am already an old bastard, and Nobody looks like me Now! And I am certain there is no danger of anyone doing so in the future!

Those of you who wring your hands, whining because you can't decide what to have tattooed on you simply don't know what you want! You are over-thinking the hell out of it. Your issue is probably not that you do not know what you want. Your issue is that you probably really do not want to be tattooed at all, at least at this point in your life.

I know what I am talking about. As I said on my web page http://ta2guy.org/regret.htm (http://ta2guy.org/regret.htm), "People frequently ask me if I regret my tattoos. I sure do. I got my first tattoo when I was too damned young to get tattooed. I was only fifty years old, and had only been seriously thinking about getting one for over twenty-five years."

In case you don't get it, that is satire. I love every square inch of my ink. My only regret is that I have run out of room.

If I still had room for more ink, I would not now be bald by choice, and that would really suck!
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Slynito on August 12, 2012, 05:19:49 PM: I'v had one reworked and another covered...it's no problem if you don't have many.

O:O
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: BillOnBass on August 12, 2012, 05:36:49 PM: Have existing ones touched up and get more.
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: ktb on September 28, 2012, 09:29:32 PM: I will only regret when I run out of canvas to put new art on. Though I've already had one covered up. I never regretted getting the original piece, I just wanted a better piece of art in that spot. I'm hoping to get some money together soon so I can get a tattoo for my newborn son (Chinese-style dragon with his footprint incorporated into it - year of the dragon and all).
Title: Re: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: RoWilJr on September 28, 2012, 10:32:56 PM: Touch ups and reflect on the meaning of each tat I've got;)
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: valldo on September 29, 2012, 03:23:54 AM: No tattoos = No worries
If I would ever get inked, which I doubt, it would be something related to my kids...at least I'll have a greater chance not to regret anything, I hope
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: theman on October 05, 2012, 01:23:48 PM: I like all of mine which is a total of eight 2 on my chest and 3 on each arm. Tat's on women which I think have to worry about that more. When they get in a nursing home and if they are on breasts "hang ON' ;D I did know a old guy that had a spider tatooed on the glans of his johnson. He always asked the newbie nurses aids if they would like to see his pet. :*))
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Ironvalor on October 08, 2012, 11:25:42 AM: I have 20 tattoos and I often get asked that question and My response is that I will look and them and say Dude I was awesome back then!
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: theman on October 08, 2012, 11:40:13 AM: Quote from: Ironvalor on October 08, 2012, 11:25:42 AM
I have 20 tattoos and I often get asked that question and My response is that I will look and them and say Dude I was awesome back then!
That ya go bro..
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: SL!CK N!CK on October 25, 2012, 12:56:34 PM: ....not a damn thing....Gonna ROCK'em in a tank top like i do now. It's my body image and I like it. Don't like it?....Don't look
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Scottakist on October 28, 2012, 01:31:11 PM: yep,,,
hang out with all my other tattooed friends
just like today...
we will just be a bit more "aged"

I will prob worry more about erectile dysfunction, upcoming colonoscopy, a device to hold up the sagging boys down there,
and plucking the hair from my ears a bit more often....

also better start thinking about getting some good jokes down
I want to be stocked full when im entering twilight time

;D
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Slyfive on October 31, 2012, 03:44:21 PM: Gotta agree with Nick and Scott, I'm just going to be a badass tattooed dude, and there are far more important things to worry about!
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Plano on October 31, 2012, 03:45:56 PM: pray that there is a pill or something i can swallow to make it come and go as i please
Title: Re: What are you going to do about your tattoos when you're older?!
Post by: Scottakist on October 31, 2012, 07:18:52 PM: there is always tongue depressors and rubber bands....