Miami Ink

Jul. 27, 2009

Dear Young Gentleman,

What are your views on tattoos?

I have written on this before, but feel we can address it again.

Personally I do not like tattoos for me. They would not look good on me. Others though can pull it off and still have them look nice. Certain tattoos will never look good on a gentleman, like anything tribal, chinese characters, mom, hearts, the Ed Hardy logo, etc.

Tattoos should mean something to you and be designed by you or for you for a specific reason. Do not choose a cheetah out of their design book to be placed on your hairy calf so that at 70 the cheetah looks tired and wrinkled.

My advice would be:

Get it sober
Get it because you like it
Place it somewhere that it cannot be seen when you wear shorts and a short sleeved t-shirt. This way you never have to worry about covering it for work.

There is only a problem when you get something tacky like the aforementioned designs or if you talk about it all the time. Get a tattoo and tell your close friends but don’t look for every social situation to slip in the fact that you have a tattoo ergo you are too cool.

-The Young Gentleman

Keep ‘em coming!

Do you have a tattoo? What is it of?

notes

resurrecthobbes answered: I’m getting one in-between my shoulder blades. Arrow pointing up that says ‘keep moving forward’ in Hebrew and Arabic w/peace sign between.
kaitlinhammis answered: I have four. An equal sign on my wrist for equality, my name on my foot, flowers on the shoulder, and “Dream, believe prevail” on my ribs. =)
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mercurypdx answered: Marvin the Martian on my right calf
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