I wish I was cool enough to commit to anything like that, so to me not only are they beautiful images of self-expression, they indicate a very attractive, almost wreckless, authenticity and confidence in decision making that seems really refreshing compared to my own insecurity.
For me I think the trick with getting tattoos is to realize that they won’t be “perfect” forever, because styles and preferences change, both mine personally and in general. I think of them more as markers of some period in my life, of some context – this one’s design was drawn by that crazy girl I dated for a while, this one I got in university because of that one class, this one was right after I split up with so and so, this one I got because I read that one book, this one was my friend’s idea, etc. etc.
Some pieces can be timeless and I’ve got a few that I feel fall in that category, but some definitely look like they’re from a different time and were made for a different me, and that’s OK.
![Lunaraise (13 pics) [Lunaraise, SuicideGirls]](https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/7a77d765-a3e3-4ade-bc6f-62bd4b77359a.jpeg){kind=link}
I have zero tatts, those are assets.
I wish I was cool enough to commit to anything like that, so to me not only are they beautiful images of self-expression, they indicate a very attractive, almost wreckless, authenticity and confidence in decision making that seems really refreshing compared to my own insecurity.
But that probably says more about me than her.
For me I think the trick with getting tattoos is to realize that they won’t be “perfect” forever, because styles and preferences change, both mine personally and in general. I think of them more as markers of some period in my life, of some context – this one’s design was drawn by that crazy girl I dated for a while, this one I got in university because of that one class, this one was right after I split up with so and so, this one I got because I read that one book, this one was my friend’s idea, etc. etc.
Some pieces can be timeless and I’ve got a few that I feel fall in that category, but some definitely look like they’re from a different time and were made for a different me, and that’s OK.