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Why DO women have these tramp stamps?
Last updated at 8:12 AM on 06th November 2008
Body art: Sienna Miller has a star tattoo
They criss-cross the nation's women, rendering their victims permanently scarred. They peep out of shirt collars, above the waists of jeans or between the straps of a pair of sandals. They wink at you as someone passes the sugar across a table.
They are a mark of temporary insanity, instantly turning the classiest, chicest woman into trailer trash. Not for nothing are they known as 'tramp stamps'.
They were once the ultimate symbol of working-class machismo, but now, even the wife of the leader of the Tory party has one.
Yes, I am talking about tattoos, the most tasteless, tacky, tawdry, terrible plague to infect our nation since mad cow disease.
It is nigh on impossible these days to find a young, famous, beautiful woman who has not got a tattoo.
As recently as 1992, tattoos in the world of fashion were, well, taboo. The edgy model Eve Salvail had a tattoo - a dragon on her skull, clearly visible through her closely cropped platinum blonde hair - and she just couldn't get a job.
Now, though, it seems every model worth her chain-smoking habit has not just one, but dozens, and art directors no longer bother to airbrush them out.
Gisele has a star on the inside of her left wrist, Kate Moss has two swallows on her back and an anchor on her hand - which she displayed on the cover of this month's Vogue - while Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell are covered in the blessed things.
Danish model Freja Beha Erichsen has 12, including the word 'float' on her throat, while English rose Lily Donaldson has just the one - words of nonsense about her family on the inside of her left wrist.
Musicians have long adored tattoos: Janis Joplin had a floral tattoo bracelet, which has clearly inspired the tattoos sported by Joss Stone, who has garlands of flowers on her feet.
Actress Angelina Jolie gets a tattoo of a tiger from Thai tattoo artist Sompong Kanphai during her visit to Bangkok in 2004
Cheryl Cole has a number of tattoos on her hands and arms, while Amy Winehouse has the more old-fashioned type, featuring anchors and pneumatic pin-ups, the sort first favoured by sailors.
These 'old-school' tattoos are now achingly fashionable, while the sort using Arabic, Hindi or Japanese script, often misspelt and ungrammatical, that came into Vogue in the late Nineties when David and Victoria Beckham had them inked on their shoulders and lower backs, are most definitely out.
This is a shame for those lumbered with them, as tattoos are notoriously difficult to erase, always leaving behind a faint, purplish shadow in their wake.
Ankle tattoo bracelets are particularly popular among Hollywood actresses, including Drew Barrymore and Charlize Theron.
Sienna Miller has stars tattooed on her shoulder and a bird design on the inside of her wrist.
Singer Amy Winehouse proudly displays her tattoos when singing on stage
Angelina Jolie has whole sentences on her upper arms: a reminder of the names of her many children, perhaps, or a shopping list for husband? Who knows? Who cares? They merely detract from her beauty, rendering her cheap and hopelessly common.
Tattoos are known among the halfwits who hang out in Hoxton, East London, as 'tats'. There are, apparently, two types: flowing tattoos that cover large areas, and patchwork tattoos of a single design, like a flower.
Tattoos are nothing new. The first date back 10,000 years, to Palaeolithic Japan, and tattoos enjoyed a renaissance during the late 19th century among the British aristocracy. It may surprise you to know that Winston Churchill had a tattoo of an anchor on his arm.
Tattoos are now so mainstream that even Selfridges has opened its own parlour, Metal-morphosis, in its London, Manchester and Birmingham stores.
For the reasonable sum of between £80 to £100, a simple star - the most popular design - can be yours to have in your lunch hour. Gwyneth Paltrow recently had a tattoo done at Selfridges: the letter C is now engraved on her right thigh.
What I hate most about all these celebrity tattoos is not just that they have spawned a rash of copycats the length and breadth of the nation, it is that tattoo wearers think that by writing on themselves, a la Angelina Jolie, they are somehow 'alternative', 'deep' and 'profound', that they have meaning in their lives.
I particularly detest the tattooing of names of loved ones, a la Johnny Depp and his 'Winona Forever', or David Beckham and his tattoo of his son Brooklyn's name. It is as if the person is trying to say: 'I love my son/boyfriend/wife more than you love yours.'
As the multi-tattooed artist Tracey Emin summed up in an exhibition called the Tattoo Show - in which she displayed photographs of her own tattoos accompanied by handwritten text telling of her regret that the mutilation on her body constantly reminds her of her old self and past mistakes - it is all a load of self-indulgent b******s.
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Last updated at 8:12 AM on 06th November 2008
They criss-cross the nation's women, rendering their victims permanently scarred. They peep out of shirt collars, above the waists of jeans or between the straps of a pair of sandals. They wink at you as someone passes the sugar across a table.
They are a mark of temporary insanity, instantly turning the classiest, chicest woman into trailer trash. Not for nothing are they known as 'tramp stamps'.
They were once the ultimate symbol of working-class machismo, but now, even the wife of the leader of the Tory party has one.
Yes, I am talking about tattoos, the most tasteless, tacky, tawdry, terrible plague to infect our nation since mad cow disease.
It is nigh on impossible these days to find a young, famous, beautiful woman who has not got a tattoo.
As recently as 1992, tattoos in the world of fashion were, well, taboo. The edgy model Eve Salvail had a tattoo - a dragon on her skull, clearly visible through her closely cropped platinum blonde hair - and she just couldn't get a job.
Now, though, it seems every model worth her chain-smoking habit has not just one, but dozens, and art directors no longer bother to airbrush them out.
Gisele has a star on the inside of her left wrist, Kate Moss has two swallows on her back and an anchor on her hand - which she displayed on the cover of this month's Vogue - while Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell are covered in the blessed things.
Danish model Freja Beha Erichsen has 12, including the word 'float' on her throat, while English rose Lily Donaldson has just the one - words of nonsense about her family on the inside of her left wrist.
Musicians have long adored tattoos: Janis Joplin had a floral tattoo bracelet, which has clearly inspired the tattoos sported by Joss Stone, who has garlands of flowers on her feet.
Actress Angelina Jolie gets a tattoo of a tiger from Thai tattoo artist Sompong Kanphai during her visit to Bangkok in 2004
Cheryl Cole has a number of tattoos on her hands and arms, while Amy Winehouse has the more old-fashioned type, featuring anchors and pneumatic pin-ups, the sort first favoured by sailors.
These 'old-school' tattoos are now achingly fashionable, while the sort using Arabic, Hindi or Japanese script, often misspelt and ungrammatical, that came into Vogue in the late Nineties when David and Victoria Beckham had them inked on their shoulders and lower backs, are most definitely out.
This is a shame for those lumbered with them, as tattoos are notoriously difficult to erase, always leaving behind a faint, purplish shadow in their wake.
Ankle tattoo bracelets are particularly popular among Hollywood actresses, including Drew Barrymore and Charlize Theron.
Sienna Miller has stars tattooed on her shoulder and a bird design on the inside of her wrist.
Angelina Jolie has whole sentences on her upper arms: a reminder of the names of her many children, perhaps, or a shopping list for husband? Who knows? Who cares? They merely detract from her beauty, rendering her cheap and hopelessly common.
Tattoos are known among the halfwits who hang out in Hoxton, East London, as 'tats'. There are, apparently, two types: flowing tattoos that cover large areas, and patchwork tattoos of a single design, like a flower.
Tattoos are nothing new. The first date back 10,000 years, to Palaeolithic Japan, and tattoos enjoyed a renaissance during the late 19th century among the British aristocracy. It may surprise you to know that Winston Churchill had a tattoo of an anchor on his arm.
Tattoos are now so mainstream that even Selfridges has opened its own parlour, Metal-morphosis, in its London, Manchester and Birmingham stores.
For the reasonable sum of between £80 to £100, a simple star - the most popular design - can be yours to have in your lunch hour. Gwyneth Paltrow recently had a tattoo done at Selfridges: the letter C is now engraved on her right thigh.
What I hate most about all these celebrity tattoos is not just that they have spawned a rash of copycats the length and breadth of the nation, it is that tattoo wearers think that by writing on themselves, a la Angelina Jolie, they are somehow 'alternative', 'deep' and 'profound', that they have meaning in their lives.
I particularly detest the tattooing of names of loved ones, a la Johnny Depp and his 'Winona Forever', or David Beckham and his tattoo of his son Brooklyn's name. It is as if the person is trying to say: 'I love my son/boyfriend/wife more than you love yours.'
As the multi-tattooed artist Tracey Emin summed up in an exhibition called the Tattoo Show - in which she displayed photographs of her own tattoos accompanied by handwritten text telling of her regret that the mutilation on her body constantly reminds her of her old self and past mistakes - it is all a load of self-indulgent b******s.
The rest of the article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1083386/LIZ-JONES-Why-DO-women-tramp-stamps.html
were they thinking. CB probably feels that way about mine. 
Tats are an intensely personal thing. I think I have posted a picture of Princess' and mine was on my av for months. It took me years to decide what to ink myself with. Since it's a little on the permanent side, I wanted something that I was still going to appreciate when I am 50 or 60 or 100. It's also in an area that I can make sure people don't know it's there if I don't want them to know. One of my longtime friends at work did not know I had it (got it at the beginning of June) until last week. It only came up because she was not sure why I had a bottle of lotion in my desk. I am probably in the minority here, but when they are done tastefully, I find tats to be incredibly sexy. I can't wait for my wife to ger her next one. 
Good one, Red Rocker! I just read this article and was a little irritated in that author did not answer her own question. I can understand an inconspicuous tattoo but the flaggrant tattooing and body piercing, I cannot understand. After thousands of years, these practices have still not become mainstream...well, that has to say something about the practices.
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Never got one and pretty happy about it.
