There is a constant heated debate around the topic of tattoos. Some people think it's beautiful. Others are against tattoos, they say, why spoil the skin. The second camp in the piggy bank of arguments "against" has another passage: in old age, tattoos on the body will look terrible.
As for me, the statement that in old age tattoos will look terrible is delusional. Let's be realistic: in old age, in principle, the skin is flabby, with pronounced pigmentation, and even unburned looks at least as good as with partak on the body.
It has become very fashionable among bloggers or ordinary people who have sat on forums to take pictures of old people with tattoos on the beach or in public transport, and then philosophize how awful it all looks. Yes, they will not look better for you without tattoos, admit it already.
No one in their 60s and 70s will look as great as they did in their 20s. So ink has nothing to do with it. But tattoos can perfectly complement the image.
Look at the older man. Stylish, well-groomed, and padded sleeves perfectly complement the image of a brutal guy. Moreover, this photo is put on their avatar by puberty, who shout about their abundance of testosterone only in social networks, and any internet marketers who are going to teach you how to make huge amounts of money through the sale of purchased on Aliexpress of goods.
Two Dutch photographers, Ingrid and Marion, created TattooAge: Never Too Old with the aim of showing what tattoos look like on older people. Also conduct interviews with them. All elderly owners of tattoos are kind people, with an active life position, they keep up with the times, and do not create and do not stigmatize young people, sitting on a bench, as drug addicts. Some of them got their first tattoo after 60 years.
Do tattoos disfigure the participants in the TattooAge: Never Too Old project? No, there people in general are interesting in themselves, the body painted with pigment fades into the background.
Tattoos are a matter of personal taste. But to say that they look terrible on the elderly is wrong. The sketch itself can be ugly (again, a matter of taste) or simply age pigmented skin that is ugly to the eye.
If the question is about the dangers of pigment health, then it has long been known that tattoos are no more dangerous than manicure or lifting makeup. The main thing is that the master's tool is sterile. Although, how many tattooed people from prisons, who are already over 60 years old and live, do not complain about their health.
One thing I can say is how lucky the grandchildren are when their grandparents, even if a little freaky, are "in the subject." Tattooed grandmothers... well, cool! They somehow dispose to themselves, I want to talk to them and it seems that life has lived as brightly as the sun does not shine in cloudless weather. And it seems that their interesting life is not over yet, it is not too late to drink Borjomi.
