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I'm not that into them, but I think one or two smallish, unobtrusive tats is probably fine. My ex had a small flower which was actually a dragon swallowing its own tail, very stylized and discreet above her ankle. Not bad. And I have a good friend who's a druid, who has a small Celtic knot between his shoulders, and a line of ogham wrapped around his upper arm, spelling out an invocation to his favorite gods. Neither looks at all bad.
On the other hand, I think big-ass tattoos, or having a zillion of them, and any facial tattoos, are all really unappealing. And for God's sake, if you're gonna get a tattoo, have the common sense for it to be something artistic and timeless. One of the first guys I knew to get one, in high school, got the Def Leppard "Pyromania" cover done big on his bicep, and I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever seen him do, which was saying something.
I'm pretty sure the first three rules of tattooing ought to be: no band names or album covers, no names of people you're shagging, no pop-culture catchphrases or political statements.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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