For me, it is “no thank you“ to a tattoo being indelibly printed into my skin on any part of my anatomy. Not legs, arms, not torso, neck, face, hands, feet, fingers, toes, ears, forehead, – not anywhere at all.

My skin is bedecked with freckles, warts, hard lumps of white skin, and craters from cut-out cancers. I have a scarred nose from a broken windscreen, surgical scars for a knee replacement, a hip replacement, appendix removal, hernia fix (twice): And so I say, enough is enough.

I don’t need any part of my person to be emblazoned with birds, flowers, creeping vines, snakes, zombie faces, skeletons, portraits of heroes, or any other so-called embellishment.

In any case, tattooists don’t need my money because they’re getting plenty a then some from sources elsewhere.