Definition Essay On Tattoos

“Sin” on Skin

Ever since I was 9 I have wanted to be a tattoo artist, not the classic career aspirations you would expect from a young girl. I wasn’t obsessed with being a famous rockstar or being a princess, my biggest obsession was tattoos and it still currently is. I have followed tattoo art for so many years, noticing the different trends and fads whether it be what the tattoo is, where it is, or what it symbolises, but the one thing that has stood out to me throughout all those years of obsession and fascination, is that majority of people who get tattoos decide that they have to some deep underlying meaning worthy of being made permanent. But since when did a piece of art have to have such an intense feeling or emotion or meaning attached to it? To some people an arrow symbolises the idea that “in order to move forward you have to get pulled back”, it has become such a generic meaning that if you get an arrow tattoo people assume they know what it means. But maybe I didn’t want my arrow to have such a significant meaning behind it, maybe it’s just an arrow.

Never in my life will I see someone with a butterfly tattoo and immediately think, ‘that symbolises complete metamorphoses’ or ‘that symbolises freedom’. The first thing I would think is, ‘wow, that’s a
Just think of all the novelty hipster moustache tattoos on fingers all around the world. They don’t make up some bullshit story about the moustache symbolising growth, freedom and equality amongst those with facial hair, but they did it quite simply because it made them happy, just like people with penis tattoos. There is definitely no meaningful significance in getting a giant nutsack tattooed on your arm, but it makes them laugh, and shouldn’t that be what a tattoo is all about? If you’re gonna get something permanent, with you forever, why not make it something that makes you smile every time you see