I think I’d like tattoos better if most of them didn’t look just terrible. They almost never are complementary to the people who have them at all. It’s not that tattoos are inherently aesthetically criminal; it’s more that folks have just atrocious taste.

When I was in Germany I saw a Persian/Iranian woman with some incredible tattoos that really were pretty great, but that’s the 1 out 10,000 case. Her tattoos were a thematic gestalt and complemented the lines of her body rather than detracting from them. And were also extremely expensive most probably (I didn’t talk to her, so I don’t know).

Most tattoos are just freakin’ atrocities, though.