Quote: (05-29-2013 08:00 PM)Enigma Wrote:
Quote: (05-29-2013 03:30 AM)Prosal Wrote:
Quote: (05-28-2013 10:50 PM)AlbertoDelMuerto Wrote:
I'm gonna get tattooed on my left arm soon.
Do it if you feel like it. I think that the days where middle and upper classes looked down their noses at people who have tattoos infering that it's soley a working class - white trash or ghetto - practice are happily gone.
From a recent stay in Moscow, I remarked that a wider cross section of society (not only artsy people, but also cosmopolitan and trendy upper-classe females) get them, which is remarkable as art tattoos were (and still are) rare in FSU. In Brasil, if you stroll around on a sunny weekend on the most chic beaches like Ipanema, Leblon, Barra, ect, you will see only a handful of people WITHOUT tattoos ...tattoo culture is BIG in Brasil - the bigger the better. Here in Paris, I have even seen body art make its way to the Banking community - generally, the tats are discrete, though I have seen some females with art on their ankles.
I have a sleeve art tattoo (from shoulder to wrist), big colored japonese koi fishes and jap-style fiorenturas, and I feel good with it ..... it gives IMO a non-standart and fashionable look (provided that in parallel you also wear stylish and refined clothes, a fancy watch, ect) that many girls seem to appreciate, especially - but not only - on my hunting ground, FSU and EE.
This is a good point. Some people associate tattoos with this certain image but that is not the case. And many women do like them, bottom line.
This guy wears some really weird shit at times and I personally wouldn't rock a full sleeve (let alone two) but his overall vibe is really dope to me.
That being said, I hate cliche tattoos as much as the next man. All of my ink is and will be things that are unique and very meaningful to me.
Old guys know what's up but you can tell this guy has new tats since the ink is still vibrant and fresh.
He gets a pass because he is way past the point of giving a fuck. He has no white-collar job that's gonna bitch about tattoos, he's got style, and looks like he is being filmed in some different part of the globe like Italy or some shit.
You either are born into tattoos or naturally morph into it. These guys whom are cubicle rats and spent their whole lives brown-nosing only to go to Thailand like everybody else and get a half-sleve are losers. Women are so lost now days that they still have this bad boy meme locked in their head of tattoos and will jump at a guy at with ink because they are so desperate for real men.
My homie just got his first tat covered up. he got that shit 12 years ago when we were in grade school in some drug dealers basement -- that's real.
I've always wanted tattoos but like that old guy picture I will wait till I naturally grow into it. When I reach my pinnacle in life I will be tatted the fuck up because it won't matter any more. My seeds will have been busted in evrey continent, in women of all shades and creeds, I will hopefully have made it rich and gone broke a few times, and finally realized my full potential with my music, I will also have settled things with my family back in Africa making sure the foundation is set for the next generation. At that point I will lite a cigar with my inked up selves, in some sun drenched local and say "fuck yeah".