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Are Tats Taboo?
When Is A Bad Tattoo A Dealbreaker?
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Are Tats Taboo? |
When Is A Bad Tattoo A Dealbreaker? |
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Also, I am a tatted up scientist.
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Lesson: Do not someone tattoo you in a barn with vintage 1928 equipment.
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my grandkids will know i wasn't always the cookies-baking, sweater-kitting white haired grandma they know!
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Someone said, "Everywhere?"
I think that about sums it up.
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Also I live in Richmond, VA, where the median age is 24 so everyone has sleeves, chest pieces, and weird ass piercings. Tattoos are so normal here that employers don't even blink twice. My mom who came down to visit me (she's from Northern VA/DC) said, "WHY DO ALL THE WOMEN HERE HAVE TATTOOS???" and was visibly horrified when we went to a local restaurant and all of the waitresses had full sleeves.
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Lemme tell ya, it's as if I showed up with a severed chicken head around my neck. The questions ranged from "Why would you DO that!?" to "Are you in a band or something? Is that why you have those?" to "Hey, where can I get some weed?". I had no idea that tattoos were so alien to the DC set.
On a related note, the next day I lit up a cigarette in downtown Silver Spring and from the way people reacted you would have thought I had kicked a puppy wrapped in babies.
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Cue 30 minutes of sobbing and "but your skin! Your beautiful, perfect skin! When I used to give you baths as a baby!"
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She actually complains pretty much constantly that I'm too pale and need some lipstick. Geez, mom, is a little consistency too much to ask?
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Sigh.
Some people just don't get it.
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Once she realized that, she warmed up to the tattoos, and asks me about mine all the time, and calls to tell me about 'that nice show with the guys who do tattoos' and 'that time she saw someone with a pirate ship on her ribs and maybe that would look nice on me'.
So there's hope! Maybe your mom will get over it.
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Tattoos though...haven't crossed over yet, but it's another thing they'll have to get over. ;)
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Mostly I get compliments from those who care enough to say something. I notice a lot of older people staring (and since it's above my boob I feel exposed and kind of dirty when it's an ooold man like my grampa) with mixed reactions. The motherhood knot is in a place that's very hard to hide, but since it's pretty I'm allowed to show it at work. I figure that I'll always love my son and future children, so that'll never tire. I guess if my partner and I ever split, it'll just be a painful memory. But it's on my neck so it's alright.
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