I'm just saying....
Dec. 18th, 2005 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plumtreeblossomAs a tattooed person who enjoys looking at other people's tattoos, I do have to say that I think a time will come when this girl will regret having done this. That's the lead singer for the local band Humanwine.
She's very young and very pretty now, and can pull off the look for the time being. But life is long, and it changes. The body changes, too. We live in a multiplistic society where everyone, no matter how famous or eccentric, must sometimes switch looks if we are to survive, as we encounter situations requiring the ability to slip from one look to another as needed. Clothes and hairstyles are definitely great in that regard. Everyone has the right to look the way he or she wishes, and I love having tattoos and piercings, but a tattoo on the face will most definitely alter one's life forever, in ways a young person might not take full time to ponder.
I will probably get more tattoos during my lifetime, but they won't be on my face. Many years ago I considered getting designs tattooed on my earlobes. But ultimately I rejected the idea, thinking ahead to times in my life when a modification like that could work against me. I have many ear piercings and can wear up to 8 earrings at a time. But I can also not wear them.
Faces change shape as we age. Skin wrinkles, distorting tattoos, and the face changes faster than most other body areas. Will she still be in a band at 50? I don't know. Will she still have a lifestyle that supports having a goatee-like tat on her chin? I don't know that either. But the magic 8-ball says "not very likely." Tattoo removal costs 10 times what a tattoo does, and leaves the skin with an orange peel texture that is just as noticible as the tattoo was. So it really is a lifetime committment.
I'm not saying she doesn't have the right to do as she wishes to her face. She does have that right. But 20 years from now, I think it probable that she'll wish she'd left her face alone. I'm glad I did.
She's very young and very pretty now, and can pull off the look for the time being. But life is long, and it changes. The body changes, too. We live in a multiplistic society where everyone, no matter how famous or eccentric, must sometimes switch looks if we are to survive, as we encounter situations requiring the ability to slip from one look to another as needed. Clothes and hairstyles are definitely great in that regard. Everyone has the right to look the way he or she wishes, and I love having tattoos and piercings, but a tattoo on the face will most definitely alter one's life forever, in ways a young person might not take full time to ponder.
I will probably get more tattoos during my lifetime, but they won't be on my face. Many years ago I considered getting designs tattooed on my earlobes. But ultimately I rejected the idea, thinking ahead to times in my life when a modification like that could work against me. I have many ear piercings and can wear up to 8 earrings at a time. But I can also not wear them.
Faces change shape as we age. Skin wrinkles, distorting tattoos, and the face changes faster than most other body areas. Will she still be in a band at 50? I don't know. Will she still have a lifestyle that supports having a goatee-like tat on her chin? I don't know that either. But the magic 8-ball says "not very likely." Tattoo removal costs 10 times what a tattoo does, and leaves the skin with an orange peel texture that is just as noticible as the tattoo was. So it really is a lifetime committment.
I'm not saying she doesn't have the right to do as she wishes to her face. She does have that right. But 20 years from now, I think it probable that she'll wish she'd left her face alone. I'm glad I did.
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Date: 2005-12-18 05:42 pm (UTC)