![]() Whatever your position, the tattooed and pierced tell their own stories. There is also the endless varieties of tattoo, including highly creative and exquisitely rendered pieces of art. These days, it no longer washes to see them as "bad" because of the diversity of people wearing them since they went mainstream: celebrities, sports stars, even conservative suburban grandparents. So the idea of tatts and piercings being repellent is likely a hangover from the days when, in the West, they were associated with the degenerate and the criminal – the biker, sailor, gangster, prostitute or sideshow traveller. Ugliness, as much as beauty, is highly subjective, and it's easy to project onto others. "Maybe a heart on her ankle, something pretty because she felt so ugly." "If Princess Diana had been a few years younger, as well as cutting her arms and throwing up she would have got herself a tattoo," Forrest writes. After getting what she said would be her final tattoo on her back, British-American novelist Emma Forrest wrote that to have a tattoo you must feel somehow unanchored, that some part of you must want to be ugly. Credit: Eddie Jimįor some, there's a dark side too. ![]() Tattooist Stacey Molly of Liquid Silver tattoo parlour.
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