Been thinking about one for a long time, but I've heard you can't swim with it. Rehabbing from an injury and have pool therapy 7 days a week. Is there a way to cover it with a water tight wrap or just wait
Been thinking about one for a long time, but I've heard you can't swim with it. Rehabbing from an injury and have pool therapy 7 days a week. Is there a way to cover it with a water tight wrap or just wait
Don't do it. I've never once seen a tattoo and thought "Wow, that is one cool tattoo." There are literally zero positives to getting a tattoo. Donate your money to a charity if you feel like wasting it.
Get a pen and paper. List all of the cool, important things from your life since you were 15 years old.
Then list what tattoo you would have permanently inked - and where on your body - to commemorate that awesome event in your life.
Pretty bad, eh?
Would you really want your high school crest on your shoulder?
Your 1st marathon time on your calf?
Your university logo on your forearm?
The name of your 1st girlfriend on your heart (who you broke up with 5 years ago)?
Get a t-shirt instead.
Then when the T-shirt becomes faded or stretched or you just don't want it anymore, you can through it out.
P.S. Tattoos are for douchebags.
Just f***ing wait. it will give you some time to truly find a design you are happy with scarring yourself permanently.
the other posters are idiots. do what you want with your skin. some tattoos look good. you just need to use very good judgment. set the design as your wallpaper for a month or two and see if you still like it by then.
Coffee and a donut wrote:
Get a pen and paper. List all of the cool, important things from your life since you were 15 years old.
Then list what tattoo you would have permanently inked - and where on your body - to commemorate that awesome event in your life.
Pretty bad, eh?
Would you really want your high school crest on your shoulder?
Your 1st marathon time on your calf?
Your university logo on your forearm?
The name of your 1st girlfriend on your heart (who you broke up with 5 years ago)?
Get a t-shirt instead.
Then when the T-shirt becomes faded or stretched or you just don't want it anymore, you can through it out.
P.S. Tattoos are for douchebags.
10/10
C'mon dude. You're basing when to get a permanent tattoo on a temporary pool- rehab situation. Follow the advice of everyone else and do not get a tattoo.
The one guy's advice to list what you thought was "cool" at various stages of life was excellent.
If you are foolish enough to still want a tattoo, here is my advice: Put a copy of your chosen design in places that you will see frequently, like your bathroom mirror, your dashboard, on your phone, on your desk at work, etc. If you can go one year without getting sick of it, then get the tattoo. If you ever change the design, the clock starts over and go another year with the new design. Chances are you will never get the tattoo.
0/10 this troll was played out years ago.
Damn everyone hates tats
Get one with a lot of words in a small script font, so it looks like you have the Gettysburg Address or something on you. Put it in a place where, 30 years ago, it would always have been covered up while in public.
Then, without exception, always wear slobby revealing clothing so that the tattoo shows. When your skin gets saggy and all those tiny letters become unreadable, punch people in the nose when they get close to you trying to read your screed.
If you are dark skinned, get even more tattoos, to compensate for the fact that they can barely be seen anyway.
Planned out, designed tattoos are for chumps. If you are an authentic soul, you will fill a kiddie pool with needles and ink and roll around in it until you don't feel like it anymore. This will create an organic tattoo designed by your body's subconscious desires. It will be truly unique and "you."
Sdfssdsdfsdfzsf wrote:
Planned out, designed tattoos are for chumps. If you are an authentic soul, you will fill a kiddie pool with needles and ink and roll around in it until you don't feel like it anymore. This will create an organic tattoo designed by your body's subconscious desires. It will be truly unique and "you."
While I'm sure you meant this seriously, it gave me a good laugh.
Why is everyone so against them????????
They're cheap looking, low-class, and ugly.
Not all of them
LR has always hated tattoos.
To actually answer your question, you aren't supposed to submerge tattoos for 2-3 weeks after you get them. Don't rush getting a tattoo. Wait until you don't have to swim anymore. Spend some time between now and then actually learning about tattoos.
Many of these responses hurt my soul.
Body Art is beautiful to look at and is a personal choice.
No, not all people with tattoos are douches, criminals, or freaks. Some of you should get out a bit more.
True it is a personal choice.
I have never looked at a woman with a tat and thought it made her look better, though. It always takes away from natural beauty.
IMHO.
Show your individuality and DON'T get one. Every dork gets one. Be radical and different.
Seriously mate? wrote:
Don't do it. I've never once seen a tattoo and thought "Wow, that is one cool tattoo." There are literally zero positives to getting a tattoo. Donate your money to a charity if you feel like wasting it.
I've been thinking about getting an elephant on my lower abdomen in a location where my penis would make the animal's trunk. You don't think that would be cool?
fountain of youth wrote:
Been thinking about one for a long time, but I've heard you can't swim with it. Rehabbing from an injury and have pool therapy 7 days a week. Is there a way to cover it with a water tight wrap or just wait
Get one only if you are committed to a neck and/or a face tattoo.
Otherwise, don't bother.