I don't understand how someone can get something PERMANENTLY engraved onto their skin when they are young, thinking that they will always like it or be that person. I have changed my "look" SO many times in the intervening decades since youth. I have friends I only see once in a blue moon whose first question to me is "so, what color is your hair now?". If I can't settle on a hair color indefinitely, or a lipstick shade, why would I commit to something as permanent as a tattoo? Granted, I know people who are exactly the same as they were in high school and have exactly the same "look". I look upon these people with pity. They are missing out on the fun of re-inventing oneself.
Also, as others have pointed out, eventually the skin will sag, and the tattoo will just look sad.
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Date: 2011-09-30 11:16 am (UTC)Also, as others have pointed out, eventually the skin will sag, and the tattoo will just look sad.