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[jmood88]

None of these look good but hey, it's their bodies.

 

[Kraftwerk]

I love tattoo threads on gaf...so judgmental.

 

[n0razi]

trends only work if the person is hot to begin with... those chicks in the OP could be smearing shit on themselves and it would look hot

 

[Fenderputty]

I love tattoo threads on gaf...so judgmental.

I mean ... who's judging people who get tatoos?

 

[TheLetdown]

thats always bugged me, like if youre going to be old anyway why would you care what your tattoos look like? or care what people think of how you look

Which is easier to live with:

• Turning 80 and realizing you have a bunch of tattoos you don't like anymore
• Turning 80 and realizing you lived your life worrying about what you'd think or look like when you turned 80

Such an easy call to make. I don't know why that old trite, tired sentiment keeps coming up every time tattoos are involved.

 

[Sapiens]

It'll look like gangrene when they're older.

Peak Fedora Lord.

Is it the ink or is one leg much bigger than the other? Must be the angle

That's the leg she JOs with.

 

[Lys Skygge]

I love tattoo threads on gaf...so judgmental.

Yeah it's weird. GAF is pretty accepting of a lot of lifestyles...but body art threads can get pretty ridiculous. This one isn't too bad though.

I've always wanted a blackout tattoo, but it'd have to be really clever.

This one from the OP

is rad as hell. I love how clean the portrait looks on black.

 

[Extra Sauce]

It'll look like gangrene when they're older.

So many unfortunate decisions on display.

 

[Anton Sugar]

However, I wonder how people will react to her when she's older. Hopefully they'll continue to be as kind.

Alternately, if someone is nice to you because you're young + tattooed and then a dick to you because you're old + tattooed, then that person is a piece of shit.

 

[TheMan]

rage bassist did it first

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Not a fan.

 

[border]

Which is easier to live with:

• Turning 80 and realizing you have a bunch of tattoos you don't like anymore
• Turning 80 and realizing you lived your life worrying about what you'd think or look like when you turned 80

Such an easy call to make. I don't know why that old trite, tired sentiment keeps coming up every time tattoos are involved.

Tattoos are the very definition of a vanity-purchase. The only reason for getting one in the first place is how it looks. Giving some consideration to how they will actually wear out over time makes a lot of sense.

"When you're 80" is kind of a fallacy anyway though -- plenty of tattoos start to look like shit after a decade.

 

[TheLetdown]

Tattoos are the very definition of a vanity-purchase. The only reason for getting one in the first place is how it looks. Giving some consideration to how they will actually wear out over time makes a lot of sense.

"When you're 80" is kind of a fallacy anyway though -- plenty of tattoos start to look like shit after a decade.

Yeah, I'm all for considering how it will wear. That's why I'm a firm believer in outlining (and I'm a big fan of thick, bold outlining) while I'm not a fan of the impressionistic "watercolor" look that is popular these days.

My point was how ridiculous it is that the constant dismissive attitude of tattoos is "Well, what are you going think when you're elderly?"

 

[Randolph Freelander]

I've never seen a tattoo and thought to myself "yeah, that was a good idea."

Though I've often joked that the only tattoo I would get would be one of a tan. This is kind of, sort of, almost in that neighborhood.

 

[Iorv3th]

Just terrible. I appreciate good tattoos. None of these fall into that category.

 

[Lime]

I want more tattoos but they're so expensive (if you want good artists) and I don't know anyone personally to do it cheaper for me. Perhaps these blackout ones are a cheap method to cover yourself up :lol

By themselves, these are pretty boring, but when used in conjunction with other imagery integrated into the "blackout", it can look quite cool, such as the Enstein one or whatever the depiction was.

 

[Steeped in a Sea of Games]

Tattoos, much like many things in life, are ruined by people who have to go crazy overboard with them. I'll put this in that category. As someone said earlier, it looks like gangrenous tissue. Gross.

 

[RiccochetJ]

Tattoos, much like many things in life, are ruined by people who have to go crazy overboard with them. I'll put this in that category. As someone said earlier, it looks like gangrenous tissue. Gross.

It's ruined for you.

 

[Dark Rider]

culturally appropriating our genitals now? smh

women have a set balls too
they are called ovaries


OT:
most of those pictures look like a plain paint job
not for me I guess

 

[Sulik2]

Just when I thought tattoo culture couldn't get any dumber, hey lets remove the artistry from our body destroying tats and just dye ourselves black. Morons.

 

[Anton Sugar]

Just when I thought tattoo culture couldn't get any dumber, hey lets remove the artistry from our body destroying tats and just dye ourselves black. Morons.

This is some high horse bullshit if I've ever read it.

 

[Byakuya769]

Real life is becoming a JRPG.

Some of these look really cool, tho.

 

[Nokterian]

Depends really some of them look nice but others not so much. I love tattoo's got them my self also but can't do that i want nice portraits and art on me.

 

[theusedversion]

Here is another site that just appeared in my feed about blackout tattoos. It has more images. Not sure if a lot of these really fit but they are cool nonetheless.

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/blackout-tattoo-compilation

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

Takes a ton of time and money and will look terrible without constant touch-ups. No thanks.

 

[Lime]

Reminds me off some of the tattoos in X-com 2 (the hexagon one). Their sleeves are actually also very much just "blackout" tattoos, but I think that's due to easier texturing rather than any trend in tattooing.

 

[StickSoldier]

Man, I just don't like those at all. It's too plain and too much. Maybe a smaller area of the body, but these tattoos seem to cover like the whole fucking limb. I think part of the allure of tattoos is the drawings and colors themselves, so tattoos like these don't really interest me anyways.

 

[Plywood]

Like all tats, depends on design & execution. Can't say I'm a fan of the woman posted in the OP.

 

[rokkerkory]

yuck not for me but it's their bodies

 

[Valhelm]

Those are absolutely beautiful, but I could never imagine doing something so drastic.

 

[Subpar Scrub]

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

Yeah, when you're 70 and your tattoos look like shit it's going to be harder to pull bitches, amiright?

Who cares, if it's important to you then that's all that matters.

 

[Rktk]

The Swedes figured out a non-perma way to do this with tanning products.

 

[Paganmoon]

Must've started as a way to cover up botched tattoos right?

 

[Iorv3th]

Must've started as a way to cover up botched tattoos right?

I would say most tattoo coverups have a lot of artistry going into them with working the old piece into the new one. This is like an amateur wants to cover it up and says "well I can just black it out, nobody will know i misspelled regrets".

The last trend was water color tattoos and while some of them looked good most of them where done wrong. There are a few people that do really good ones but if the placement is bad they end up bleeding out in areas and shifting and not looking anything like they originally did.

 

[Ogni-XR21]

Can't wait until it starts fading unevenly after it gets older.

This would be my biggest fear. I really like some of them, but getting them redone over and over again sounds horrible.

 

[Mad Season]

nope nope nope

 

[evilromero]

My buddy did this decades ago. Thought it was a normal thing for those wanting to go deep.

 

[HighResTomato]

reminds me of

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

Which is easier to live with:

• Turning 80 and realizing you have a bunch of tattoos you don't like anymore
• Turning 80 and realizing you lived your life worrying about what you'd think or look like when you turned 80

Such an easy call to make. I don't know why that old trite, tired sentiment keeps coming up every time tattoos are involved.

Yep. It's usually an argument made by people who've never made significant personal growth, or are too young to know how much they'll grow as they age.

Having regrets or embarrassments and knowing how to handle them is part of reaching maturity. Also, old people are fucking invisible to the world anyway, a feeling only old people actually know.

 

[El Daniel]

"What kinda tattoo do you want"

"Just fuck me up fam"

"You got it"

 

[border]

Yep. It's usually an argument made by people who've never made significant personal growth, or are too young to know how much they'll grow as they age.

I'd say it's exactly the opposite -- I am old enough and have grown enough that I know today that I probably wouldn't like the tattoos I would have gotten 15 years ago. My tastes and aesthetics have changed a whole lot. The fact that you don't know how much you'll grow is a reason not to get a tattoo.

 

[Heel]

It'll look like gangrene when they're older.

 

[TwoDurans]

Seems like this would hurt. A lot.

 

[Anton Sugar]

I'd say it's exactly the opposite -- I am old enough and have grown enough that I know today that I probably wouldn't like the tattoos I would have gotten 15 years ago. My tastes and aesthetics have changed a whole lot. The fact that you don't know how much you'll grow is a reason not to get a tattoo.

Considering tattoos have been a part of various cultures for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, I'm sure you could find out whether or not your sentiment is shared by many others.

Besides, regretting certain tattoos is kind of accepted as a "part" of getting tattoos.

I can tell you that I am fairly certain, when I'm old, I'll have plenty of other regrets about choices made, or not made, in my life that are higher priority than tattoos. Just a hunch.

 

[SirCheese]

When normal tattoos get redacted.

 

[SeanR1221]

They look like human adult coloring books.

 

[BolognaSoup]

Why is western youth obsessed with tattoos.

Anyway these might look aesthetically cool on their own but some of those pictures look awful. *rolls around in charcoal dust* "ugh yas slay perf queen"

I'll never understand the appeal either. I feel like as recently as the 90's there was very little interest. Now it's everywhere.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

They look like human adult coloring books.

Heh..great comparison.

 

[QuantumSquid]

Tattoos, especially colored ones, will never not look like diseased flesh to me. Only the absolute best tattoos look decent to me, but even then I would never get one.

But it's their bodies, so it's not like I care. Do what you want.

 

[pj]

I bet all of these look far better in photographs than in natural light