She is a good looking woman and trains hard

[stormshadow]

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From there Vall Beijner was supposed to head to the World Championship in Malaysia. “I was going to bring home a gold medal,” she says. Instead, she stayed home, recovering from what was eventually diagnosed as exhaustion. She had been surviving on nutritional shakes, without any solid food, for five days, on top of three intensive trainings per day.

“I was used to starvation to the edge of life, sitting in a sauna until you almost die, in order to weigh in,” Vall Beijner says. The weight-cutting techniques common in the fighting world had taken a toll on her now-flyweight body. She already held two World Championship bronze medals, had won the Swedish kickboxing championship seven times, and was ranked third in the world in her weight class. But she was wearing herself out.

[Bruce Tackett]

She owes me money.

[macky]

I don't know why women destroy their general appearance by covering their arms and bodies with tattoos. I'm not against a tasteful tattoo here or there, but I see it here a lot these days in NZ as well.

I mean, a nice tattoo on the shoulder in soft colours like a rose or something can enhance a lady's appearance, a nice decoration to go with her looks, but the otherwise good-looking lady here with arms that look like she's had them up to her shoulders in a printing machine is just ghastly. 

[stormshadow]

I agree Macky. Way too many

[stormshadow]

My favorite Uncle got a tatoo of an anchor on his left forearm about one year before WW2. Up until he was about 45 years old it looked like an anchor or at least it looked anchor like. After that age, the ink started to diffuse more and more, his skin got older and stretched out and by the time he was 60 it did not even look like an anchor really. Right before he passed away at 87 it literally looked like a blob of dull black with a little bit of blue splotched on his arm. It looked like a round badly drawn sun.

I think tatoo removal will be a booming business in the future.

[stormshadow]

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[Bruce Tackett]

I agree about all the tattoos. It's not very inviting. I also think it's ridiculous when I see Yuppies with full forearm tattoos.

In 1974 I got a tattoo of a small magic mushroom behind my right shoulder by the famous tattoo artist, Lyle Tuttle. Some years back when we lived in California, our daughter came out to visit for a few days. I took her on a walking tour of San Francisco, showing her my old haunts from my young, single days. At one point we passed the Lyle Tuttle studio, and I told my daughter that's where I got my tattoo. She wanted to stop in and look around, and ended up getting the same mushroom behind her right shoulder.

[MBS]

Also agree about the tattoos. Especially “ sleeves” like this woman has. Or when a woman gets a big back or chest piece. 

I read once that tattoo remorse runs high, and that getting them removed is very painful. 

[macky]

When it comes to blokes, I suppose tattoos are (or were) more accepted as long as they are reasonable and not too many. In 1964 a guy could still lose a job interview if he had tattoos on his hands, however, in some quarters.

Under peer pressure in the navy when I was 17, I ended up with one on my left forearm and one on the left upper arm. The ink hasn't run much and they are still recognizable for what they were, plus a smidgen of red and green in amongst the blue-black.  Also I don't have squeaky-white skin so they don't stand out too much, not that I care.  Some of my cobbers got themselves covered and have regretted it for years.

Some Maori and Pacific Islander women here have taken to having cultural tattooing done on their faces (Maori women on the lips down to the chin in typical spirals) and "Poly" women on their arms and legs, but that's another matter really because who am I to even comment on their motives and culture.  Their brown skin also blends a lot more with the blue-black.

In the case of Maori women, the moko represents her ancestors.  The men traditionally had full-facial moko, and some have renewed their cultural tradition by getting that.  In the old days pre-iron tools, the lines of the moko were gouged out, not just the skin penetrated, as today.   One can only imagine the agony they went through until the tattoo was finally finished.

The last time I saw an example of that was in 1950 when I saw an ancient Maori woman with the moko obviously done the old way, (I didn't know that until much, much later) the grooves in her lips and chin quite visible, even for someone who at the time was three-feet-f'all.    

On the other hand, the scribbles and the stark blue-black colour up against the white skin of the subject of this thread covering her arms like sleeves is simply vandalism of a beautiful lady's skin.  Like I said, I don't know what possessed her to destroy a large part of her appearance by doing that to herself.  The photo of her with her arms folded is a study in self-abuse.     

[trog]

Apr 30, 2020 23:54:38 GMT MBS said:

Also agree about the tattoos. Especially “ sleeves” like this woman has. Or when a woman gets a big back or chest piece. 

I read once that tattoo remorse runs high, and that getting them removed is very painful. 

One of my nieces had a few stars on her shoulder, which cost $40. After eight months she was bored with them and spent $800 getting them off.

I think tattoos which are just random bits like Vall Beijner has look terrible on both men and women.

I don't have any. A very long time ago, I though about it, couldn't decide what and never did. I'm glad.

[Deleted]

Not a fan of tattoos on women either.

The problem with anyhthing like that is that I know if I had one I'd hate it a year from now. I used to wear silly chains that I thought were cool at the time, but cringe looking back. But with tattoos you're stuck with the damn things.

[pierinifitness]

A drunk sailor would have no problem with her appendage graffiti.

[gruntbrain]

It's hard to argue against a woman who can beat you up.

[Mr Average]

I don't argue with a woman who wants to beat me off.