Poll: Best age for first tattoo?

[farouk]

having a tattoo can sometime start a curiosity with another person, many people ask me about my butterfly

@Butterfly So did anyone ask you lately? any recent opportunities arose for you to tell of your testimony?

It used to be almost exclusively a man thing, decades back; but it's good now that women can do it with confidence.

 

[farouk]

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll!

NB: If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now!

 

[farouk]

Hi, @charity

Hi @farouk,

She keeps it well hidden, so I have not seen it for a very long time.

So has she mentioned it / removal options lately?

 

[charity]

Hi, @charity
So has she mentioned it / removal options lately?

No, @farouk,

It is never seen. It is on the back below a shoulder-blade, tucked away and forgotten.

 

[farouk]

Yes, the head of Christ is big, I wanted to make it seen and noticeable, for it to stand out.

@JohnPaul Often a single colour - e.g., black - tattoo done lines inked in bid bold strokes is very effectively conspicuous. So is yours in one colour? or maybe multicoloured?

 

[farouk]

No, @farouk,

It is never seen. It is on the back below a shoulder-blade, tucked away and forgotten.

Sounds like she has gotten accustomed to it by now; I think you mentioned that at one stage she wanted to have it removed.

(If she's had it for years, maybe in the intervening years in any case women have seemingly achieved what might be termed complete tattoo equality - see OP quote - with men and since it's so very widespread she maybe doesn't see the need to remove it now.)

 

[farouk]

I didn't know that! I find that surprising, but I suppose that you've mentioned it I'll see more.

Much love!

I think the OP quote is a strong indicator, in any case.

 

[farouk]

My comments are only based on wild guesses due to casual observations.

If the observations are basically sound and can be sanctified, then they can be worthwhile.

My sister wanted to get a nice, small Christian tattoo, but her husband wasn't keen on the idea. I didn't mind so much, though! And I wouldn't be shocked if my daughter went there eventually. ..
it's the state of the heart that's the real point.

I guess neither of them did it (yet)...

 

[Naomi25]

If the observations are basically sound and can be sanctified, then they can be worthwhile.



I guess neither of them did it (yet)...

Nope! She's decided to get a puppy instead! Plus, not that she's in any way looking old, but when one tips over the 45 years scale, I think one needs to start reconsidering the whole idea. Droopy tats are never cool.

 

[farouk]

@Waiting on him FYI, as per your earlier post about the 'solas'

(and I guess, FYI, to @Mayflower also)

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[farouk]

Nope! She's decided to get a puppy instead! Plus, not that she's in any way looking old, but when one tips over the 45 years scale, I think one needs to start reconsidering the whole idea. Droopy tats are never cool.

While there is some truth to what you say, FYI, I saw this report in Huffington Post:

' "...Most of my clients are in the older bracket," Gallo-Kohlas told The Huffington Post. "We see a lot of women in their sixties and seventies getting their first tattoos." Gallo-Kohlas recalls a woman in her sixties who got a tattoo because everyone in the golf clique at her gated community had one. It seemed like the thing to do in order to fit in.'
Many Women Get Tattoos Post 50 ? And Don't Regret It Later huffington post

I don't buy the doing it to 'fit in' aspect, but it's done at all ages now.

 

[farouk]

I think my oldest is ready she said she been ichin for ink

Yes, the "ready for ink/more ink" moment does need to be internalized, doesn't it?

While it used to be overwhelmingly such a man thing, these days a lot more women seem to find the confidence that goes with that "ready" moment. (Which can be good.)

 

[farouk]

Yes my wife had a nurse that has verses on her arms and it opened up a good conversation and fellowship

PS: How is your wife doing these days, after her hospital stay?

 

[farouk]

@farouk,

@Pearl LOL.

Ppl used to think that the design of men and women's swimsuits was such an up to date subject; though now I guess in some ways these have been eclipsed by all the ink that the men and women have.

(@GodsGrace was mentioning something similar about this recently.)

 

[farouk]

Hi Aspen, I too sometimes have trouble understanding what people write, I'm American, perhaps I'm not good at absorbing written words.

@JohnPaul Saw what you put on the other thread; maybe this is part of the value of receiving ink that contains wording as well as / instead of some sort of picture. The visual and wording combined.

My wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite Bible verse, and mine also; and I'm sure other conversations have arisen as a result of her willingness to be injected.

 

[JohnPaul]

@JohnPaul Saw what you put on the other thread; maybe this is part of the value of receiving ink that contains wording as well as / instead of some sort of picture. The visual and wording combined.

My wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite Bible verse, and mine also; and I'm sure other conversations have arisen as a result of her willingness to be injected.

That is my favorite verse too Farouk, such a powerful verse and meaning.

 

[farouk]

That is my favorite verse too Farouk, such a powerful verse and meaning.

She must have felt really good having it done, with the conviction that it would likely lead to really good opportunities for witness conversations with ppl. (To think that years ago it would far less likely have happened in her case, because women were far less likely to get tattooed than they certainly are now; and so it's clear how opportunities for the Gospel are always opening up, if we are ready for them.)

John 3.16 contains the Gospel in a nutshell, so to speak; so relatively few words; such a wealth of meaning concentrated into them about the Gospel in so many glorious aspects.

I think you could have a week's meetings of preaching going through each phrase of John 3.16.

 

[farouk]

This would be the one for me if I were to have one. Awesome!

Remind me; did you ever say you had any other ink already?

Faith ink does certainly work as a conversation-starter, anyway. (I'll actually re-paste this on the ink thread, because I don't want to go too off-topic on @Mayflower 's thread.)

 

[Waiting on him]

Remind me; did you ever say you had any other ink already?

Faith ink does certainly work as a conversation-starter, anyway. (I'll actually re-paste this on the ink thread, because I don't want to go too off-topic on @Mayflower 's thread.)

 

[Waiting on him]

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