Have you ever woken up from a night out and thought everything went OK, then then looked over to your bedside table and seen a partially used tub of "Looking After Your New Tattoo" wax? You then pray that it’s just a crazy marketer’s new hair styling product, but then look down to see your whole chest covered with a Superman tattoo?
Well, I haven’t, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t gotten some tattoos whilst, shall we say, my focus was elsewhere. Things that seem like great ideas should sometimes stay great ideas and never come to fruition.
This is also the case with tattoos. Obviously, I’m a tattoo enthusiast, so I adore body art and get great pleasure from expressing myself through my ink. However, it’s important to really think about what design you want to be tattooed with before jumping in. It’s therefore especially important to stop and think before you decide to get a Superman tattoo.
From the mid-1990s, more and more women have decided to have tattoos etched onto their lower backs. The concept seems fine (and, I might add, I have one); the lower back is the place least likely to stretch during pregnancy or old age, it can be easily concealed as necessary, and is reputed to be the center of a woman’s femininity and strength. Locating a tattoo on this spot seems like an excellent idea.
The reason that lower back tattoos have become known as “tramp stamps” (and other, cruder phrases) is because of their prevalence and the lack of thought associated with them. It is not enough to think “butterflies are pretty, so I’ll have a permanent image of one tattooed on my lower back.” More focus is needed, otherwise you are contributing to the prevalence of tattoos which are permanent but which have no meaning behind them.
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