16 Oct, 08
She. Tattoos. Aging. Identity. Trend.
Women become bolder as they grow older. This ideal is one clearly supported by the growing trend of older women getting tattoos. Mature women are transforming tattoos, and tattoos are transforming women in their middle ages. Tattoo images, colors, and bold patterns are defining the older female identity. Women are getting tattoos as a coming of “aged” if you will later on in their mature years.
The number of middle-aged women getting tattoos for the first time is a trend that has been on the rise for years. Back in 2001, American Demographics magazine published a study that identified this emerging tattoo trend finding women between 40 and 64 years of age had significantly more tattoos than men of the same age.
Reasons women get tattoos and become new ink inductees later in life range from commemorating significant birthdays, celebrating divorce, leaving behind a relationship, or a bad habit, or a way of life, and even go so far as to make fun of society’s “older” women stereotype.
To some aging women, tattoos are a means of incorporating years of experience into living breathing art because tattoos exist inside her body. Other older women get tattoos during difficult times as a means of self-affirmation that better days will come. And of course there are the middle-aged women that see tattoos as a flirty game to play in an effort to resist looking as though they are aging.
Women “coming of aged” defiantly get tattoos for Identity. Power. Beauty. and Respect. Signifying life is beautiful, and at times brutal older women boldly get tattoos as momentous markings to remind her of the path endured along the way in which she has arrived.
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