Body art is simply awful

AWFUL ART: It is with growing concern that I write about the amount of tattoos young people are now sporting.

It is beyond me why they have such monstrosities plastered all over there bodies.

Is it because they are not happy with how they look? Is it to help with their self-esteem?

I don't know. What I do know is some of these designs are absolutely awful.

Take the barbed wire around the neck, the tear under the eye and most of all the symbols or foreign writing on the arm.

Does the wearer of this type of tattoo know what it means?

Tattoos on a man are bad enough, but tattoos on women, what are they thinking?

Does a girl look any more attractive by having a flower engraved on her shoulder blade, a bracelet painted around her wrist or some kind of tribal tattoo sprawled across the base of their spine?

All that I can say to these people and people who are contemplating getting one is just think about how you are going to look when you reach middle to old age.

M DAVIES

Blythe Bridge