Nearly half of all adults younger than 40 have at least one tattoo.

nprfreshair:

Quick survey of staff here: no one appears to have a tattoo. Do you?

I’ve never gotten a tattoo. It’s not because I have anything against them; I think the artistry of them can be quite something. It’s just that I’ve never felt the urge to communicate something so strongly that I would have it imprinted on my body.

The idea of just randomly picking a design out of a book, that I’ve never understood. If the purpose of a tattoo is to express something unique about yourself, then just flipping through pages of someone else’s illustrations seems antithetical to the whole endeavor. I would think it necessary at the very least to create the idea yourself. And I’ve just never come up with such a compelling idea, something so foundational to who I am, as to walk into a parlor and have them paint it on me.

And where? My arm? My ass? The whole of my back?

Source: nprfunfacts

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    I have 5. A small...on my wrist, a small one on the back of my neck, a larger rib piece, a...
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    on each thigh, for my derby team. When my book comes out, I’m going...start something big...
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  10. annepatricia reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    I don’t have one…yet. newsweek:
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  12. stinarrr reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    Yup. Working on another one. (:
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    What say you, cougars and cubs? What you got on your bodies?
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  18. curare reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    Funny Tumblr comments, informative article, and more informative link to the FDA site from the article. Thumbs up.
  19. lisamarie0193 reblogged this from nprfreshair and added:
    And now i shall add...that statistic, now its gonna be half plus one ;D
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