Vizzie, that remind me of day before yesterday at my gym. After my workout, I took a shower down in the locker room and decided to go sit in the hot tub for a minute. A bunch of old men where getting out of it, so I was standing off to the side, still naked, waiting for them to get out of my way. One of these days I will figure out why there are always legions of old dudes naked in the locker room.

While I was standing there, this old dude walked up behind me, licked his finger, and started rubbing it up and down my back tattoo. I, uh, kinda freaked out, whipped around at him (still naked!) and asked him what the FUCK he thought he was doing. He stammered he didn’t think it could possibly be real, and was just seeing if it rubbed off.

I swear to god, the only thing that kept me from decking him was that he was like sixty….and that I was naked.

I much prefer the old women who come up to me in public, grab my arm, and demand to see my art. I mean, at least I’m clothed when that happens.

Love. Peace. Metallica.

Lol what the hell?! Old people sometimes creep me out, they seem to forgetwhat is accepable to do in public and how to treat others with respect. Unwanted comments on other people’s looks and unsolicited physical contact are unfortunately rather common.

People stare at me because I have colourful hair already and because my only tattoo so far is a) on my back and b) covered up during the day so it fades less quickly I miss most stares that are directed at it.

A few months ago I was standing outside a pub with the smokers and suddenly my friend (the one who accompanied me when I got the tattoo done) leaned over my shoulder and helpfully offered: “It’s a Siamese fighting fish”… apparently some guy had been squinting at my back for some time, LOL!

Couldn’t agree more.If you don’t like people taking a good look at your ink, cover it up! As long as they are just looking and not giving you dirty looks and/or making nasty/stupid remarks I don’t give a hoot.

I openly study other people’s tattoos, always have. It’s more awkward if you DON’T have a tattoo yourself (yet) though, you feel more like some weirdo/perv with a weird fetish because you are an “outsider”.

That does remind me of an incident I had on the train a while back though. This guy sat across me talking on his phone and the sleeve of his sweater had slipped down so I could see he had a substential tattoo on his forearm. I was still trying to figure out what it was when he was done with the phone call . As he looked at me I just truthfully said “Sorry, I was just interested in the bit of ink peeking out of your sleeve there.” He just grinned and rolled up his sleeve a bit more so I could see there was a dragon wrapped around the forearm. Noting spectacular but nicely done, alot better than what I tend to see on a regular base. I asked him where he got it done but the studio was not in this area here so I don’t remember the name anymore, sorry.
Still grinning he asked me whether I had any tattoos and I confessed I had “just one between my shoulder blades” and took off my cardigan (luckily with a sleeveless top underneath with a low-cut back so no bra-flashing was required). I have no idea WHAT he expected but his reaction was like: “Oh, that’s a big tattoo for a small girl!”
Well, duh!

Anyway, to sum it uo this whole situation would have been way more awkward without any ink to flash on my part.

I think some are fasinated…my boii would say for chics its sexy and a good conversation starter…who knows? I have lots of ink and get stopped by guys and girls equally.

Could be, could be, but I’m more betting that he’s half-addled with age. Like Asenath said, old people can be creepy as fuck sometimes.

In his defense, you are a small, cute girl, and there’s a perception that small, cute girls aren’t into tattoos, not seriously. Blame the sorority chicks, those giggle gaggles of blonde, over privileged airheads who descend on tattoo parlors en mass, all asking for belly button rings and roses the size of nickels, all the while giggling at how bad and rebellious they are.

Thanks to them vastly outnumbering women with gorgeous art, it’s often surprising to see a woman who doesn’t wear leather miniskirts or fishnets with real, substantial ink.

Love. Peace. Metallica.

Once i see something i like I ask questions and usaully with a positive response from people about there experiance, It benefits everyone when you get a perspective and insight to many peolpe who want to share there personal tattoo

Personally I guess I could say that I stare but it is more admiration than anything (depending). However, when I stare at some of the guys that go to my school and the shitty tattoos they got done illegally, it’s in disgust really. Almost all of them are typical tribal or/with a clich’e sentence in fancy font text.

One of the girls actually just has the tattoo ‘A~Z’ like that in fancy font and it’s hard not to judge that on first appearance.

My are covered all the time because they are on my back. But i know when i look at someone else with tattoos it’s because I’m admiring the artwork and trying to figure out what it is really hahaha especially if they are partly covered