O_o – stare… in a good or bad way? i like when people look at my tattooo, its an awesome piece of body art, shouldnt be cooped up inside a shirt or somewhere unnoticable, there is no bad blood for tattoos anymore where im from, more people like them than not.

i think woman prob get stared at more if heavily tattooed :rolleyes:

i think all of us are guilty of having a good long luck at peoples tattoos , i can put my heads up and admit doing it i’m very ink nosey 😀

Like Butterfly said, I’m ink nosey. Lord knows I’ll forget your face five minutes after we meet, but I’ll remember your tattoo forever. Ink just draws my eyes and interest in a way not even a nice round ass, or big, bouncy breasts can.

But why for others?

Duh.

Tattoos aren’t totally socially acceptable man. Women with lots of visible ink are assumed to be easy; heavily tattooed men are dangerous criminals. These perceptions are lessening, as more and more of Western society gets them, but they aren’t gone.

And this social unacceptability is part of the tattoo’s mystic. It’s a sign that you’re part of our in-group, that you’ve shared an experience with us that those outside the group just simply don’t understand. Visible ink sets you apart, marks you as one of us rather than one of them.

That’s attention grabbing. They’re trying to make sense why you’d “get pictures” on your arm, even if they wouldn’t put it that way themselves.

Just sayin.

Love. Peace. Metallica.

I get stares and I catch myself staring too. I’m just trying to check out the art though. Who knows what others are thinking?

I stare because it’s art. Art is meant to be looked at and appreciated.

I look because I’m totally fascinated, more so since I started getting inked myself. I will, on occasion, compliment someone on their ink, I love it when I get compliments about mine so why shouldn’t others. Tattooed women don’t have the stigma that they did years ago, so saying my mother doesn’t know that I have any at all!