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[Dosia]

Not my cup of tea. I think they look ridiculous.

 

[Lys Skygge]

They look really nice when done right.

 

[supernormal]

This is the only type of tattoo I've ever wanted to get. It even makes regular tattoos look better if you have them reversed so that the design is your skin and the canvas is the blackout.

 

[SillyEskimo]

Pretty cool to look at for 10 seconds while scrolling through a msg board. However, having those permanently for the rest of your life is beyond goddamn ridiculous. It boggles my mind why anyone would ever do this. You're wearing your bad choices.

 

[Fury451]

i like it, this is probably my favorite.

This one is pretty cool. In general, not a fan of the aesthetics personally. Really can't imagine having one for a lifetime that looks like that.

 

[Bedameister]

I thought this was about drunk people getting tattooed after they blacked out

 

[TheLetdown]

latest trend from like a decade ago maybe

This.

As for blackouts, I like them, but won't get them.

Body space is finite and there's so much you can do with other tattoos that you can't do with blackouts: cover-ups, blastovers, etc.

If the OP (or anyone else) is into black and grey, check out Thomas Hooper's needlework, if you haven't already. He's down in Austin now just killing it. Everyone at that shop is killing it.

 

[HvySky]

I don't really have any interest in getting a tattoo, myself, but I can't deny that I think these look fucking awesome.

 

[Stupid Sexy Flanders]

I think they look cool but horrible at the same time.

Spoiler

But I can say for sure that I think a snowflake on your face looks awful

 

[v0yce]

I have no problem with how that looks.
Looks kinda neat. Way better than boring tribals anyways...

(near future)

I have no problem with how that looks.
Looks kinda neat. Way better than boring blackouts anyways...

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Looks kind of terrible actually

 

[dankir]

Not if u make a tat gun like this

That is literally the my cat's hair brush....

 

[Ivan 3414]

Looks horrendous.

Tattoos are the fucking worst.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Love ink on girls personally, and some of these designs are great. Some of these though just incorporate a bit too much which are just blobs which feel aesthetically lazy, especially juxtaposed with minute patterns.

But there is a pattern to most of them. Take this girl for example

Is that a young Albert Einstein on her arm? ;p

 

[TheLetdown]

Looks horrendous.

Tattoos are the fucking worst.

Looks alright.

Tattoos are the fucking best.

 

[v0yce]

"tattoo trend" fuck ing hell.



as fucking if tattoos aren't a major deal in non western cultures for many hundreds of years now.

Are you really arguing that tattoos don't trend?

 

[soultron]

Not really a new thing, just that an Instagram account is collecting pictures of them. Some look good, some look bad. As usual, good looking people with well done tattoos can pull them off.

 

[Deleted member 518153]

I love tattoos but this is definitely something I wouldn't get even if I was paid for it

 

[tattooed_dwarf]

I wonder how cheap they are.

They should be very cheap.

Cheap, why, tattooing large black areas isn't easy task, especially if you want fully covered area with flat color.

 

[Catdaddy]

Maybe it’s just me, but those look bad. I can only imagine how they will look in 20-30 years.

 

[radios shipping overview]

I've seen this before, but never as extreme as what's in this thread. It seems like a way to make the concept of a tattoo even more prominent and permanent.

 

[The Omega Man]

Is there a tattoos OT? Because there should be one

 

[y2dvd]

Here's my tattoo when I freshly got it. Did it (sorta) before I knew it was a trend. B-(

 

[kewlmyc]

Looks cool, but is probably going to look like crap when they grow older.

 

[Newline]

These are also called blackwork tattoo's and have been done since forever.

Pretty cool to look at for 10 seconds while scrolling through a msg board. However, having those permanently for the rest of your life is beyond goddamn ridiculous. It boggles my mind why anyone would ever do this. You're wearing your bad choices.

Who are you to say someone is unhappy with their tattoo and think it's a bad choice?

 

[zma1013]

I'm fine with heavily detailed tattoos, but just flat all black coloring? It looks terrible in all those pictures.

 

[BFIB]

Piper did it back in the 80's.

 

[Übermatik]

I don't think I'd ever get a tattoo, but these are pretty cool.

 

[cloud_sleep]

These all look horrible to me. I much prefer either no tattoos or small, subtle ones.

 

[Skellig Gra]

I'm a big tattoo guy but this looks terrible.

 

[Blobbers]

 

[Fury451]

Here's my tattoo when I freshly got it. Did it (sorta) before I knew it was a trend. B-(

This is super cool.

There's a lot going on there with details though, doesn't really look like the others, so you're bucking the trend I think.

 

[cubicle47b]

I like the middle top and bottom right tattoos. The rest, not so much.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Here's my tattoo when I freshly got it. Did it (sorta) before I knew it was a trend. B-(

Much better than that other crap in the OP.

 

[Deleted member 325805]

I think it looks pretty awful personally, but it's not my body so whatever.

 

[Jinaar]

I'm such a fan of skin and to see it covered up with imagery or blackout, it hurts. Such beautiful skin gone.

Tattoos don't make sense to me. Personal opinion. Covering up the beauty you were given with something else.

 

[pantsmith]

Belongs on my X-Com soldiers, but maybe not real life.

 

[Mistake]

I'm not one to rag on tattoos, I think some are cool, but I could do these cheaper with spray paint and stencils

 

[DirtyLarry]

About 8 years ago I got in an argument with a tattoo artist because they said they could not put a black band on my one arm. I wanted it about 2 inches wide and just a solid band all around. They were trying to say it was impossible to put a straight line on an arm since it was a cone shape, blah blah blah.
Needless to say I did not use that tattoo artist.

So it is still something I consider doing to this day. If I were to do it would just be the upper half of both of my arms into my pectoral area.
I am just a huge fan of minimalism all around. Less is more to me. And this is about as minimal as you can get on the tattoo side of things.

 

[Octavianus]

Looks cool, but is probably going to look like crap when they grow older.

Old people look like crap anyway.

 

[MilkBeard]

I have a friend who did it to his arms.

 

[Particle Physicist]

I don't know, they can look great when they are fresh and in pictures, but I suspect that they probably don't look as good in person or once they age a bit. Touching them up would be a bitch too

 

[Pterion]

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[Gattsu25]

So ahead of its time.

 

[shadowkat]

I think it looks awful but I'm not a fan of tattoos anyway. At least with most tattoos there's some design to it and some can look really nice. These look like someone took a sharpie to their arm, even the ones with some design in them.

 

[Mr. Giggles]

ummmm wow.

Looks like it would hurt!! some of them are cool but....yea no

not for me

 

[entremet]

I've seen them before:

No opinion on them. I love body art in general, but not on myself. I change my mind way too much to do body art.

 

[Mostmanlyman]

They look cool, i would never ever get one though

 

[Strangelove77]

The one on the back looks good, but some of the others look(hopefully) unfinished.

I'll will say that they'll probably age really badly. I've always hated that dark greenish color tattoos take on when a person has had them for a long time. These are going to be an eyesore. I doubt the people who get these care though.

 

[sphagnum]

And then it turns out the underwear is part of the tattoo.