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My Dad enlisted in the Marines in 1942 when he was 17.
He got his only tattoo when he was 87. He said he thought about it for awhile 😁
 
To each his own I guess. Body paint don't bother me in the least.
There is an old saying about tattoos....

"The difference between people with tattoos and those without is that tattooed people don't care if you don't have any"

In the late 1980's I worked as a service technician for a dental and medical equipment company. We got a new manager who wanted us to look professional so we were given uniforms with the option of long or short sleeves..... Everyone had the option of sleeve length except for me. I was given long sleeves and was told that I had to wear them down so as to not offend the customers.

Now I work for a hospital and some of the doctors even have tattoos.... How times change.
 
I'll add to my earlier comment. When I was the Inspector General for a large Army installation back in the '80's I got to know a young female Military Police sergeant. One day I ran into her when she was off duty, and despite the temps being well over 100 degrees she was wearing a long sleeved shirt. When I asked her about it she said that when she was younger, single and foolish she had gotten numerous tattoos on both her arms (remember that this was in the '80's) but that now as a married, responsible mother of two, and a Staff Sergeant in the MP Corps, she was embarrassed to be seen with the tattoos showing. She told me she was in the multi-year process of having tattoos medically removed, which she said was quite painful. I wonder about those young women today with full "sleeves" of tattoos and how they might feel when fashions again return to society looking negatively at permanently inking one's own skin.
 
Someone mention body paint? Sports Illustrated has had many models just in body paint. My fave was Ronda Rousey...I am sure you all have your faves...
 
I don't have any tat's because I have never come up with anything I would like to have.

My thought has always been, "What if I don't like that ten years from now?"

Here in Pittsburgh, pro sports team tattoos are common. Also, anything to do with the city. I work with a guy who has the Pittsburgh skyline tattooed on his arm. Another guy has "412" tattooed on him, 412 is our area code.

When I was a kid, a friend's uncle got a tattoo on his arm and hand. It was a dagger which ran down his forearm and onto his hand with blood dripping off it. It was soooo cool. I saw the uncle again when my friend's dad died. The cool tattoo was just a big blur, not so cooool.
 
It seems the newer tattoos does professionaly don't fade or turn into blurs like the old ones did.

My sister in law had a tramp stamp done before I met her. Apparently she went back and complained it wasn't dark enough. The "artist" was probably insulted and went at it like an angry 3 year old with a fat black crayon. Lol. It looked awful.

She invested a lot of money pain and time having it removed.
 
It seems the newer tattoos does professionally don't fade or turn into blurs like the old ones did.
We'll have to wait and see. The fading and blurring is the result of the immune system attacking foreign matter in the body.
 
It seems the newer tattoos does professionaly don't fade or turn into blurs like the old ones did.

We'll have to wait and see. The fading and blurring is the result of the immune system attacking foreign matter in the body.
I have 2 tattoos that were done in the 1970's and I have had one redone and an inscription put around it. The other one from the 70's is faded and slightly blurred.
The ones that I had done in the late 1980's and early 1990's are still as good as the days I got them. The ones from this century are good as well. The fine lines on the black and gray work are crisp and clear while the ones with color are bright and very legible.
 
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