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I know I'm coming into this discussion fairly late... but....
Two things:
First, a wrist tattoo, while awesome, should always be done above the crease that separates the arm from the hand. The skin of your hands and wrists (the part closest to the hand) (and feet and ankles just above your feet for that matter) regenerates more quickly than other parts of your body. So a tattoo on your hand or lower wrist will blur and fade MUCH more quickly than a tattoo anywhere else... Just so you know. *grins*
The second thing is that I'm more-than-moderately, less-than-heavily tattooed (I just got my seventh) and pierced (the only visible one besides my heavily pierced ears is my tongue). I grew up in an environment in which tattoos were normal, everyday things. One of my mother's best friends growing up was a woman who has won awards for being the "most tattooed woman".... she was fully tattooed from collarbones to wrists to ankles. She was a loan officer in a bank for as long as I remember.... and, for as long as I remember, she wore long sleeved blouses with high necklines and either slacks or skirts with dark opaque hose to work. No one she worked with knew she was inked at all. She always used to say that being tattooed was her way of expressing herself, and memorializing the amazing events in her life. Her hubby was a tattoo artist, and she was free to ink every milestone in her life. BUT she also said that while she was free to express herself with her ink, she was not going to foist her method of expression on anyone else. She had to earn a living... and JUST LIKE telling your sordid life stories to your customers is inappropriate in the workplace, so is displaying any other method of sharing personal choices. The workplace was the time to be vanilla and acceptable to ALL kinds of people, not just the ones who don't mind a tattoo.
I am a legal secretary by profession, and I wear a retainer in my tongue piercing and cover my tattoos when I interview and when I'm working. I worked for my state's government, and the rules were looser, and I was able to wear my tongue bar, and leave the opaque tights at home. Even so, the habit was hard to break, and I was always surprised when someone noticed and commented on my ink.
It's all a matter of knowing when expressing your individuality is appropriate, and when it's not.
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~Sinclair Lewis
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