<p>Tattoo=Tramp Stamp…</p>
<p>My S had a forty-ish male teacher in high school who had an earring.</p>
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As far as I know, the tramp stamp designation only refers to tattoos on the lower back…no offense to anyone.</p>
<p>Does anyone know why young people like piercing? And how long this fashion will last?</p>
<p>Tattoos and weird piercings = unnecessary and deliberate self-mutilations. I prefer the natural look of the unmutilated body.</p>
<p>I became a grandma before I got my tattoo :p</p>
<p>My sons all think it’s cool and I’ve already had 2 strangers ask me about it—both recognized the font/language. </p>
<p>The only person who I think may give me lip about it is my fuddy-duddy FIL.</p>
<p>Well like I said- I had wanted a nose ring since I was 16- so thats almost 34 years.
I like them- not to be radical obviously since they are almost as commonplace as lobe piercings, but I don’t think they would be great with my face type-it looks good on my daughter though.
I also like some tattoos-
I like native plants for the garden- but they are still manipulated and fiddled with to look their best.
I feel the same about the human body-
if we didn’t fiddle with ourselves, our skin would be dried out, our hair would be wild & our teeth would be scary.
I prefer not to think of it as * mutilation* but augmentation, to let our personality be expressed even when we are naked!
;)</p>
<p>haven’t read all the posts, but where we are the facial-piercing and tattoo thing is pretty much a tired-out fad, so it’s only a matter of time before she takes out the stud.
…or when she gets her first bad head cold…ewww</p>
<p>biggest growth industry = tattoo removal</p>
<p>Regarding the tattoo issue, I remember about 10 years ago, I knew two sisters who both got rather large “sunbursts” tattoos around the belly button, and thinking to myself they must not have thought to the future…and imagining what that will look like when they get pregnant! ewwwww</p>
<p>GA2012MOM - can you say, “one-piece bathing suit” for the rest of their lives? ha ha ha</p>
<p>hotpiece, I also think only the tattoo on the lower back is a tramp-stamp.</p>
<p>My S had a forty-ish male teacher in high school who had an earring.</p>
<p>I couldn’t keep track of how many teachers in Ds high school have earrings- Her principal wears diamonds in at least one ear- He looks really snazzy. He is a pretty sharp dresser as well- virtually everytime I see him, he has a very nice suit on.</p>
<p>If someone is clean- appropriately dressed in a way that will not harm others or themselves ( no gang logo etc)- what is this with being judgmental over the style that they want to wear?</p>
<p>I use to do massage- many, many people had tattoos, some had had them for 30 years, some were quite beautiful- as is the human body in all its permutations.</p>
<p>I actually don’t like navel rings as I feel it interferes with the navel chakra but I like the tattoos on the lower back for a woman- except I would want to look at mine- so I have to think of someplace else to get one.</p>
<p>One of Ds friends got a great tattoo of a dragonfish on her forearm ( she is Japanese and majored in Chinese)
Id like to do something to reflect my Celtic heritage but I can’t decide!</p>
<p>yes, a lower back tattoo is commonly referred to as a “tramp stamp”.</p>
<p>it’s not a particularly insulting comment, since it is used so commonly. i have one, and i often jokingly refer to it as my tramp stamp when i talk to friends.</p>
<p>there are some people at my work who have a little diamond piercing in their nose. it doesn’t really seem to be a big deal at all. The only one that i ever did a double take to was a woman who was in her 40’s. I thought she would have outgrown it by then.</p>
<p>My dentist <em>hates</em> tongue studs because so many people chip or break teeth with theirs. </p>
<p>My DD is 14 and I can never hate too much on Lindsay Lohan because the ear-piercing scene in the Parent Trap remake turned my DD off piercings <em>completely</em>. We don’t even pierce ears in my family (nobody on my side has any) so I think anything more outre is out! If she did decide that she wanted to pierce her ears, I would take her to a dermatologist not the 18 yr old puncture artist in the mall. I’ve seen some bad keloids myself (one girl had apricot sized ones hanging from her lobes) and that’s what scared me off it when I was a teen and everyone I knew was doing the ‘ice cube and pick’ thing at sleep-overs. </p>
<p>As for tattoos, I think I’ll use the ‘imagine that on grandma’ technique. I was at a party a few weeks ago that was moms and older girls (19-24 ish) and almost every single one had a tattoo of some kind – yes, the moms too. Bellies, ankles, shoulders, wrists…ink everywhere. Time has put enough of a mark on me as it is. I’m not adding anything else.</p>
<p>[regret</a> free tattoo](<a href=“http://www.livescience.com/health/070711_tattoo_off.html]regret”>http://www.livescience.com/health/070711_tattoo_off.html)</p>
<p>novelisto! i always use that tattoo remark…‘what will it look like when your 65’ type of thing.</p>
<p>no one likes a wrinkly mandarin sign on their ankle/arm/hip</p>
<p>[Then</a> again growing older isn’t what it used to be.](<a href=“http://www.more.com/more/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/more/story/data/1144423931477.xml&catref=cat5360022]Then”>http://www.more.com/more/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/more/story/data/1144423931477.xml&catref=cat5360022)
I say if you really want a tattoo- or to dye your hair or get a nose ring or a tramp stamp- do it!</p>
<p>(or if you want to learn how to play flamenco guitar or to climb Mt Rainier)</p>
<p>Of course if you worry more about what people might say about a 60 yr old taking guitar lessons, or getting a tattoo, or a nose ring- then perhaps you are safer staying in your rocking chair.</p>
<p>I don’t plan lying on my death bed adding up the regrets.</p>
<p>omg i love flamenco guitar.</p>
<p>esteban is sweet.</p>
<p>I don’t worry at all about what MY tattoos will look like at 65! They look pretty good still at 55. If I’m alive, not battling a life-threatening disease, still physically active…then long live my tattoos, wrinkled or not!</p>
<p>You go, girl!</p>