I'm terribly picky. See, I dig tattoos/piercings, but certain types bug the hell out of me. I really abhor chestpieces, on guys and girls (no offence if you have one... I really have no say in what you put on or do to yr body). I hate when people over-gauge their ears (a girl i sort of know... tangentially, really, friend of a friend... has her ears gauged to 1 3/4"... she fucking looks like a messed up minnie mouse). I'm not a fan of "tattoos for the sake of tattoos"... you know... the piece has no meaning or someone else said it was cool, so the person got it. I guess that clashes with my overarching perfectionism. It's also a reason why I have no tattoos, despite having drawn all over myself since I was a kid. Part of me would want whatever was put on me to be designed and illustrated by me, but the realistic side of me realises that I would never be happy with something I did. I'd want to go back and change that eye or adjust the branches of that tree, but, oh well... too late. And yet having someone else's work on me... well... they'd have to be the fucking caravaggio of tattoo artists, or I wouldn't let them touch me.
What brings this all up? A friend of mine has started talking about the tattoos that she wants to get, and the more she talks about it, the more horrid it sounds and more like a giant mistake it will end up being for her. Okay, picture a really prim and proper dressing girl. I mean, she wears pearls and dresses and looks like the old fashioned school substitute. Cute as hell, nave and (at times) very sweet. Now, this girl idolises Audrey Hepburn... okay, cool... well, now she's talking about how she wants to get audrey hepburn tattooed on her shoulder. ooookay... that could possibly work. Oh yeah, and she wants Frank Sinatra on the other shoulder. I seeeee.... oh yeah and she doesn't want them to show below short dress sleeves, so essentially she wants them done on the tops of the shoulders...
Allow me to restate that... she wants portraits. Of famous people. Tattooed on the top, "rounded" portion of her shoulders. Yeaaaaah... that's not going to turn out so great, I'm guessing. I suggested maybe combining the two into one piece with a nice rose in the middle (she loves roses) and perhaps doing that on her back, or something... oh no, that wouldn't work... I think the thing that bugs me so much about the whole idea is that I know how flighty this girl is, and how one minute she absolutely adores this or that, and thinks such and such band is the best ever... but two weeks later, she has jumped to something else entirely, which is the new "MOST AMAZING THING EVER."
But maybe this is also speaking too much of our conflicted relationship and how the girl makes me insane, yet we're somehow still friends and I cannot manage to tell her what a moronic twat she can be at times... because, to quote my best friend "sorry, hon, but you're just a really nice guy. you can't be a jerk."
Unless I'm online... then my jackassery knows no bounds!
What brings this all up? A friend of mine has started talking about the tattoos that she wants to get, and the more she talks about it, the more horrid it sounds and more like a giant mistake it will end up being for her. Okay, picture a really prim and proper dressing girl. I mean, she wears pearls and dresses and looks like the old fashioned school substitute. Cute as hell, nave and (at times) very sweet. Now, this girl idolises Audrey Hepburn... okay, cool... well, now she's talking about how she wants to get audrey hepburn tattooed on her shoulder. ooookay... that could possibly work. Oh yeah, and she wants Frank Sinatra on the other shoulder. I seeeee.... oh yeah and she doesn't want them to show below short dress sleeves, so essentially she wants them done on the tops of the shoulders...
Allow me to restate that... she wants portraits. Of famous people. Tattooed on the top, "rounded" portion of her shoulders. Yeaaaaah... that's not going to turn out so great, I'm guessing. I suggested maybe combining the two into one piece with a nice rose in the middle (she loves roses) and perhaps doing that on her back, or something... oh no, that wouldn't work... I think the thing that bugs me so much about the whole idea is that I know how flighty this girl is, and how one minute she absolutely adores this or that, and thinks such and such band is the best ever... but two weeks later, she has jumped to something else entirely, which is the new "MOST AMAZING THING EVER."
But maybe this is also speaking too much of our conflicted relationship and how the girl makes me insane, yet we're somehow still friends and I cannot manage to tell her what a moronic twat she can be at times... because, to quote my best friend "sorry, hon, but you're just a really nice guy. you can't be a jerk."
Unless I'm online... then my jackassery knows no bounds!
And people who are as flighty as you've described should be prohibited from making permanent body modifications or having children. In my obnoxious opinion...