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Post by ashleyrose09 on Jan 20, 2012 15:02:10 GMT -5
My husband says that whenever his grandparents die (they are more like his parents since they took care of him all his life) that he wants to get there initials tattooed on his arms. It seems like a sweet idea but I've heard a lot of negative things about tattoo's and especially ones involving people's names. What are your opinions on this? I don't want to upset him by saying it's a bad idea but I also don't want him to make a decision he is going to regret later.
Also I just want to clarify that I know both of us are adults and we each can make decisions for ourselves, but like a lot of men he doesn't always think things through before he says he wants to do something.
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Post by The Phantom Lady on Jan 20, 2012 15:09:29 GMT -5
I would never myself and I would never advice someone to get a boy/girlfriend or spouse's name tattooed on them, things can change along the line and it could end up being a horrible reminder.
However, names of your own children, parents or deceased family members or close friends you want to honor I can't see any problem with.
Personally I have my own nickname MJ which also is my idol Michael Jackson's initials on my wrist 'cut' into the skin within a black heart with blood coming down. If my nickname hadn't been MJ for so many years I would never have gotten those letters on my skin despite all the things he meant to me
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Post by ashleyrose09 on Jan 20, 2012 15:20:31 GMT -5
Yeah I personally wouldn't want a tattoo of anyone's name on my body, even family because if something happened to them you would always have there name on you and I don't know about any of you but that would make me sad if they died. I would rather have photos or videos to remember them by because if your grieving and don't want to think about them so you can move on you don't have to look at that picture or watch that video but if it's on your skin and is apart of you it's hard not to look at that. I don't know if I'm making any sense but that's just how I feel.
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Post by razzthekid on Jan 21, 2012 14:36:12 GMT -5
Definite no to boyfriend/girlfriend names but otherwise i say go for it. I have an anchor on my right forearm with my parents handwirtten signatures above it. The anchor stands for stability and strength and that's what my parents are to me.
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Post by thehyacinthgirl on Jan 22, 2012 17:40:08 GMT -5
If it's meaningful I don't see why not. A girl I worked with once came in with ideas for a new tattoo. She had Latin and Arabic lettering that she thought 'looked nice'. I asked what the words meant. She said she didn't know, she just liked how it looked. What if it had said something like 'I sleep with mountain goats' or the like? In the end, she got her grandmothers initials in her ankle. At least it meant something.
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