There is not that young people who have tattoos in the skin. Today, 40 years and more reluctant less and less to “decorate” their bodies. “Even if this is not the generation most represented, the average age is expanding,” says Roberto Dardini, professional tattoos artist in Paris.
There are of course those who have started younger and who do not stop, but there are also those who engage finally after years of hesitation. This is the case of Isabelle, 46 years. It was decided six years ago, after lengthy prevaricated. “I could not, especially vis-à-vis the eyes of others. Yet I am laboratory, so I wear a blouse and it is not. It’s finally my husband who has pushed me. “Then comes the question: where to place the drawing? For Isabelle, no real hesitation: “I wanted something visible. For, when the tattoos is well done, as long as it is seen, at least the summer! I opted for an edelweiss, a mountain plant white star-shaped, on the left shoulder. ”
“The desire to reclaim his body”
This is often a change of life or an event which is behind the decision. Some are waiting to be separated from their spouses who opposed it, or be installed professionally. “A policeman of some fifty years came to see me, remembers Dominica Chapaton, tattoos artist in Lyon. He asked me to draw any one side of the forearm. I think he wanted to do for a long time and has benefited because it was well in his post. ”
For Danielle Rapoport, psychologist, is in the ownership of his body. “The quarantine is a breaking point. This is the beginning of the first rides or the first divorce. There is therefore a twofold: on the one hand, ageing, we can not prevent, and, secondly, the desire to control his body, to reclaim it. “A way to say” this is my body, I do what I want. ” But it is also a way to assert his personality. Whatever the age, “the tattoos is used to be shown, to tell something. A sort of exorcism, revealing his personality in the eyes of the world. “
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