Personally I love tattoos, as long as they're done well. I have planets and stars over the top half of my back (they're the planets from my birth chart), a pair of old navy swallows on my chest, and my absolute favourite, I have a sleeve down my right arm of Alice in Wonderland, with alice falling down the rabbit hole, a broken checkerboard background (pinched from Alice through the looking glass), the white rabbit, a nice pot of tea, cake and tea cups to symbolise the mad hatter's tea party.
Not everybody in this world likes tattooing, we are all unique and that's a wonderful thing. I do get asked "but what about when you're older?". I think tattoos are about the journey in life, and when I'm old, I want to look back and know I lived. After all, a life lived in fear is a life half lived.