Hello everyoneJ,
yesterday evening I had my next interview with a friend of mine from Germany
and I would like to share some interesting stories about his tattoos.
His tattoos and their meanings
Phil is 28 years old and from Germany and
has overall 15 tattoos which he got in a time frame of 4 years. He got his first
tattoo with the age of 24. The tattoo is an angel wing with a date which is
located at his right forearm. The story of this tattoo is that a few years ago
his father got sick with hepatic cancer with the diagnosis that his liver is
going to decompose. He needed a new organ which thank God he got after about 3
years fighting the disease. The angel wings resemble his dad’s survival and the
date underneath stands for his second birthday; the date he got his new liver
transplanted. Further he has a tattoo of a heart and anker with the word ‘Mudda’in
it. Mudda is a colloquial northern German expression for Mother. The heart represents his mother and the Anker
and the word ‘Mudda’ are connected to his mother’s northern German heritage. In
addition, he has headphones on his left wrist which stand for his passion for music
which started at the age of 17teen. In addition to that, he also has the
sentence ‘Only God can judge me’ on his right forearm which serves as a
reminder of his hip hop period in his life As he has a lot of fun with cooking
and eating he has a cupcake tattooed on his arm which stands for his passion
for food. On his right upper arm he has a big tattoo of the Mexican Maria de
Guadalupe statue because he wanted a Maria statue to represent his faith and he
found that this one is the most beautiful illustration of her. Besides the
tattoos which have a meaning, his other tattoos are just for the design, for the
art of tattoos for instance his three skulls which he has just for fun because
he likes skulls. Also, the spots he chose for his tattoos have no special meaning.
Most of his tattoos are on his rips, arms and chest. 
Perception because of Tattoos
Although his tattoos are really visible on
his arms he mostly has positive feedback His friends and family like his
tattoos and people on the streets do gaze at him but he does not perceive their
gazes as negative. Only his grandparents
are against his tattoos because they are conservative and connect tattoos
negative things such as out casters and crime. Overall, it does not bother him
when people look at his tattoos when he walks on the street. When I asked him
about the ‘tattoo trend’ that exist on our current society he says that he does
not believe that there is any tattoo trend. He thinks that tattoos have always
been present but it is just now that society started to focus on tattoos and
assigning meaning to them.
So do you guys think that there is such thing as a tattoo trend in our society or not ?
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