Tattoo Etiquette : Elise Buch

Hello guys, I hope everyone is doing well. In today's video I'm going to make another

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tag video, it seems like you guys really like these videos. This video series is my most popular video series that I do, people just seem to enjoy it. I think it's kind of a reaction video; People like reaction videos, I do too. So if you haven't seen one of my

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videos before, basically what I do is I take a topic or I take a YouTuber or I take a... whatever, and I react to it and I talk about it and more.

The things I talk about are like misinformation inside tattoos. So someone will say something wrong and then I would just like to correct them or whatever just to get proper tattoo information and tattoo education, there's not a lot of information. there on the internet. Well, there's more to it than there was when I was younger, but I know I feel like it's useful and useful. To talk to people about tattoos and correct people and stuff like that. Um, this one is a little different. This is a tattoo sticker video on a youtuber. I've never actually come across this before, but this was in my video recommendations on YouTube, almost any tattoo video makes it into my YouTube Recommendations because obviously that's the content I create, so they recommend the same type of video to me. videos or whatever. that's whatever.

I don't know how Youtube works *laughs* So yeah, I watched this video. This video is from Elise, it's Buch or Buck. (Buck) I'm not sure how to say his last name; If anyone feels like I'm being rude by saying that, I honestly have the worst time pronouncing names, just watch my videos. It's just that I have a history of it. I'm not being rude, I'm just really bad at pronouncing names. Yes, she is a vlogger from Denmark again. She hadn't seen any of the previous videos before and this is the only video I've seen of hers.

But I scrolled through her channel and she's like a normal vlogger. she blogs about her life and whatever is trendy. Things like that. She also has a bunny at home. I have a bunny at home too, so I connected with her on that one. But she uploaded a video on July 16 that said, "Let's talk about tattoos." "The hardest part about being a content creator is that people want your honest opinion on things *referring to object in shot* Delete this, but sometimes when you give it they realize that that wasn't their opinion and the opinion that they expected and therefore they are not going to like what you have told them anyway.

So I hope you are open minded to this video because I am going to share with you my opinion, my perspective on tattoos" As she said in. that clip, everything in her video and everything I'm going to post in this video of her video is her opinion and she is 110 percent entitled to her opinion. I just want to talk about what she says from a tattooed person's side because she mentions some things that a lot of non-tattooed people talk about when it comes to tattooed people. So she just wanted to talk about them and address them and just have a conversational type video, that's what we do here.

I would love to know her opinions on the things I'm saying, on the things she's saying, this is what all these tattoo

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videos are about, it's like an argument or something. We'll talk about what we think about the topic. I want to make a disclaimer! Also, don't ever send hate to Elise or anything like that again. Like I just said, it's her opinion. Don't bombard her with hate or anything like that from her. I'm not talking about that life, I don't want to be responsible for this girl having a lot of likes, dislikes or whatever her opinion is and yes, we all have the right to that.

So for context, the reason Elise posted this video is because she recently tried on a temporary tattoo of... I think it was like a moon phase from her chest to her sternum area and she was asked if you would ever get A tattoo. ? What is your opinion on real tattoos? She then thought of making a video about all her opinions on tattoos and what she thinks about them. Four years ago I had this idea in mind. I knew what... I would be *stutter* if I was going to get one and um... I actually had it printed out, I kept it in my closet.

I'm going to put it on the screen. It was this moon with a face. Not a moon, a sun with a face. I printed it out and hung it in my closet and had it hanging there for two years so I could look at it and really be able to think about this if it was something that was I'm going to move forward four years later, I'm so glad I didn't get that tattoo because in four years since I was 20. Now I'm 24. So many things have changed that my opinion on things has changed. those four years: "Okay, first of all, that's someone else's work of art, so it's probably a good job he didn't tattoo that because it's someone else's hard work and...

You don't get tattooed." other people's work of art." about you without permission Anyway, if you get permission from the original artist, okay, then do it. But nine out of ten people don't do that. So when I started getting tattooed, I heard from many. people who should put their tattoo idea on the wall for about a year to three years, whatever it is, a lot of "older people" recommended this to me and asked me: "do you design your tattoos? Do you put them on?" Wall? Do you look at them to see if you really like them?" and the answer is no.

I just think it's such a dumb idea. Personally, I've never understood that whole method. When you get tattoos, you forget they're there. , don't get them. you look at it all the time because they become part of you, like of course you see them in the mirror and stuff, but you don't focus on them, it becomes second nature, so it's just like birthmarks or freckles or. whatever. You just get used to seeing them, so you don't notice them as much? So isn't it exactly the same as having like, I don't know, a picture on the wall or whatever, because you tend to notice them more? often because they are there in front of your eyes, but when they are a part of you, you don't sit there and look at your skin and look at your tattoos all the time.

So you definitely won't get bored of them. I've heard that many times in the. I've been asked in my life, "Oh, what if you get bored of your tattoos? But the thing is, you don't get bored with something you do." I don't actively watch all the time. I know that doesn't make sense. And if you have tattoos, you can probably understand what I'm saying. If you don't have tattoos, you're probably thinking: "Bitch, what the fuck are you talking about?", but they just become a part of you. Like you don't notice them anymore. I mean, you notice them but you don't notice them if you watch a couple of videos I made recently where I was drawing. my tattoos from memory, it's very difficult to remember what your tattoos look like because you don't actively do it...

Elmo. Sorry, my rabbit (Elmo) is making noise *laughs* but, yes, you like to forget all the little details and those things so you don't get bored of them because you don't see them. "As I always said before, I always said before that I quickly see too many two in one body. It has become extremely popular to cover as much skin as possible and in fact I think this has been, like that one time on Tinder, which has made me realize that I don't actually like tattoos any more than I thought because, for For me, when you have so much skin covered and so many things happening on your skin, I actually think it takes attention away from your eyes.

I really see the eyes and the face and I smile a lot more. Just those tattoos really catch my attention and I don't really like that. And that really surprised me. I didn't even know it, but I did it. I've seen myself reacting that way over and over again, and I've thought that maybe that's how I feel." So he's definitely right. I definitely notice tattoos on people first. But I come from a different side of things. I get really excited every time I see someone with a tattoo or tattoos or who is heavily tattooed. I love seeing other tattooed people because where I live it's quite rare to come across people with, say, two sleeves, maybe a neck tattoo. or a face tattoo. or whatever, so every time I see a very tattooed person I get really excited.

I'm like hi, nice to meet you, but I'm shy so I don't talk to them personally. I get excited about seeing other people tattooed and it doesn't bother me. Like I don't know, I guess it's because I'm a tattoo enthusiast and every time I run into someone else, that's a tattoo enthusiast, I just like him, I enjoy his presence and I know he's probably a cool person and really appreciates tattoos and art itself, and yeah, I don't see it being a negative thing to notice tattoos. immediately. Again, I guess it's just a matter of opinion. Yes of course.

You will first get to know the tattoos because they are different, but different is good! "For me, a tattoo is a very big decision and sometimes I feel that people forget that when they get a friend's tattoo, friends? Like when they get their boyfriend's name tattooed or some kind of phrase that they live with later as at the moment. But as people develop, grow and age, we change a lot and our view of the world and stuff can change a lot too. So, four years later, you might end up having an ex-boyfriend's name on your body.

You might end up having a quote that you can't see yourself living after because it was something that was a part of you, like four years ago, but you still have it tattooed so that every time other people can see it, it's like a way for you to express yourself, It's not you anymore if that makes sense, like we've changed so much that some of the tattoos we're going to get may not be us five years later. And for me, I really don't think so. that I could enjoy a drawing, the same drawing, the same colors, all the same on my skin for so long and I was so afraid that things would change for me, that my opinion, my life, everything was going to change. and it would just be...

I don't know. I can't look like that anymore." So Elise has the same concerns as many untattooed people. What she says is not uncommon and I get told these things many times, for example, weekly. Like I said, you end up not noticing your tattoos. .Like no one sits there and admires their tattoos on a daily basis, like 1) No one has time for that. The only time you admire a tattoo is what's new and you're so excited and you're like, yeah, bitch there's line work. .Yes, there is saturation! It's so good! And then, like in the "honeymoon phase", you don't notice it anymore I've been tattooing for 11 years and while some of my old ones didn't survive and I've had them. cover-ups, some of them have survived.

You mentioned about quote tattoos and how your opinion could change in five years said: I have this tattoo with a quote here nine years ago It says "To be irreplaceable, one must always be different" and. The reason I did this to myself is because when I was like a younger kid, like a young teenager. or whatever, I always tried to fit in. I always thought I had to be like everyone else and it just wasn't me as I am... quite a "weird" person, I have a lot of different interests and don't fit into a category or a "stereotype" and I always tried to fit into one, I always thought that I had to have a label for myself and, um, I came out of that when I was 18, 19 years old and when I saw this quote and I thought "this suits me so well, I can keep this whole message of likes to be irreplaceable.

It should be different like you need to be yourself." So if you're different, embrace it, enjoy it and still stand by it nine years later. It's a little cheesy. It's a quote from Coco Chanel. I'm not very similar, I loved designer clothes. Well, I never had designer clothes, but years ago I was fascinated by Fashion Weeks and things like that. I thought that suited me, so it doesn't suit me anymore, but I still live by that quote and I think I will for as long as I live. I definitely feel like dating is something you won't get bored of. unless it's super cheesy like something like "Yolo", like if you have the word yolo tattooed on it, that might have lost its ummm... pizzazz, but... to be honest, I live by the Yolo motto.

I try not to say it, but fuck it, you live once, right? "I've also often heard people say that they can take it off in case they change their mind. I think people should like to read about that. It's a lot harder than you think, it takes a lot of time. I've seen shows with people who have regretted their tattoos. It can take more than a year before they disappear. It's really painful and, uh, difficult, to remove the tattoo, so it's not just, of course, it depends on the size and everything. "It's not an overnight decision that you want to get your tattoo removed and it costs money, so I think it's something you should think about." Well, first of all get information about tattoos from a tattoo TV show.

It's not a good idea. No... no, don't get information about tattoos from a TV show. It's all dramatized and over-processed, so to speak, and you just don't get information about tattoos from a TV show unless it's "Needles and Pins." To be honest, that's the only tattoo TV show I've never come across. had problems. Secondly, yes, tattoo removal is a very long process. It can take up to a year. Maybe a little more. It could be shorter, but the size of the tattoo has nothing to do with the time it takes to remove. It all depends on the pigment of thetattoo and the colors you have in that tattoo.

Some pigments and colors break down faster than others. So you definitely have to do your research on that, so if you're looking to remove a tattoo, you have to see what pigments evaporate the fastest, just talk to the person doing the tattoo, female or male, and they'll let you. You know, the thing that breaks faster because they'll have a little more experience with it. I have never had anything laser cut so far. um it's definitely something I want to get into, like I want to know what it feels like. I know, that's kind of strange. But people say it's more painful.

Some people say it is less painful than getting a real tattoo. So I want to know how it feels to me. Let me know if any have been removed. I know, there are a couple of you who have had tattoos removed. You also don't need to remove a tattoo as you can cover it. What a cover up is, if you don't know, is where you get an old tattoo, say this one here. This is definitely one I want to cover in my time. This one is on my hand here, but you can get a tattoo over it.

Sometimes it will be a little darker just to cover the ink or you can rework the tattoo which is what I recently did to this rose tattoo. So what this looked like before was horrible. I'm sure some of you have seen it, but it basically looked like a cabbage, but then I looked up artist Emma Arietti, she's a goddess, and she turned my cabbage into a beautiful rose. , as if now it looked like a rose. That's another option: you don't always have to go the laser route because laser again is a long and somewhat expensive process.

I feel like the price of lasers has dropped considerably over the years. There are definitely many more laser clinics. Normally, you would probably have to travel to get a tattoo. Laser removal. I feel like every city has some studio or shop or whatever that has a tattoo. Laser removal machine today. I think there are like two or three in my city and I live in a small town, quite small but on the small side, so they are very affordable, so the prices are now competitive and a little cheaper. So I don't know what that discouraged you.

If you want to remove a tattoo, whatever it is, it's one of those things that you can't live with in the future, I'll talk more about that in a minute. "Also, tattoos are a big trend right now. It's very fashionable to have tattoos and that's also something that I've sometimes thought about is that people who do what I do like good photos on Instagram, they make videos , getting tattoos has been such a popular thing that, honestly, I think sometimes people get tattoos just to have something to create on YouTube or something to post on Instagram because it's so popular that it gets so many likes and so much engagement and so much engagement.

Sometimes, I fear that people do it because it's so popular and they just forget to really think and feel within themselves if it's their thing or if it's not really their thing. But they think it's so popular. happening sometimes it can drag you into you. These popular things without you really being you if that makes sense, and I think that's a little scary. I've always been a little afraid of trends because is it really something that. I want? Is it something that I feel is me? If it's just a trend? I think we've all tried to wear something and then after a few years we thought, Why the hell did I wear that?

And it was because it was fashionable, we thought it was going to be cold, but in reality it was, it wasn't like that. "No". It's really hard to talk about this without getting a little personal and a little angry because I hate, I just hate when people compare tattoos to fashion trends. I can't, I just can't stand it because, first of all, I'm not offending anyone who takes tattoos seriously. Like me and other creators on YouTube who focus on tattoo related content on YouTube. You know in their videos and stuff they will go out of their way to get a tattoo just to make a video.

Now, that's fucking ridiculous. No one would do that well from the serious side of things. They're probably like Jake Paul (I don't know his name), those stupid creators I just can't stand who do things to get views. But when you have people like me sitting around and talking about tattoos, we talk about the pros and cons like we're also talking about the bad things, like we're not going out of our way to get you a tattoo, just for a while. video like it's not worth it It's just not worth it at all I would always get tattooed like no one else like no one has any influence on what I do to my body I choose my tattoos I get them because I want them not for a video or whatever .

Yes, I make videos of every new tattoo I get, but I do it as something "educational" and because I'm excited. Why not? Why wouldn't I talk about a new tattoo? Because it's fun and it's an exciting process and people like to hear about it. They didn't like knowing it. I won't have a lovely audience that comes back to watch my videos every time I upload them, so everyone likes to get them for "Social Media" or for "The Gram" or whoever. To say that is not true for the most part. Going back to the beginning, tattoos are a trend.

I don't want to state the obvious, but I will for the sake of this video. Tattoos have been around for thousands of years. They're not something that's come along in the last 100 years or whatever, they've been around for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians had tattoos, there are mummies and whatever that are very well preserved and They had marks on their skin that were not in the tattoos because they had lasted so long. There are tribes and whatever that got tattoos thousands of years ago and still to this day. That represents social status and things like that.

So they haven't just appeared. They are not a trend. They can be seen as a trend because they are becoming more and more popular, but something that has been around for thousands and thousands of years cannot be a trend now. To say that there is a trend within tattoos, so if we look back a few years ago. and a lot of people were getting dream catchers, if you look back at the late 19th century and early 2000s a lot of people were getting tribal tattoos now, that's obviously a trend within tattoos, but the tattoos themselves aren't They are a trend. "I'm just afraid that things will change that.

What is it like? How will we see tattoos in 15 years? Will they be something that we look down on and that a lot of people will take them off again? Because it's going to be very unpopular and that's just another thing I take into consideration and with my dreads I can brush them and I can't have signs of my body from a specific time in my life or have this very Strong expression because I can just brush them I can't just take off a big sheath in case it changes. of opinion and want to have a softer appearance or another appearance.

A softer look? Am I looking right then or something? Do I look like Vin Diesel right now or something? I don't understand the correlation with tattoos making you look tough or whatever. I'm definitely not as hardcore as Yes, so the statistic that I can't say that word statistic is that one in four people has a tattoo today. I highly doubt we'll all turn our backs on tattoos in 15 years, especially since they've been around for thousands and thousands of years. They are just becoming more popular. We're not going to suddenly break down and just hate them. Especially since there are now so many people who have tattoos, like one in four people who have tattoos.

So we're not all going to turn our backs on those people. I can never imagine that happening at all. It's just not going to happen. You can't live for the future and this is going to sound so What is the word I'm looking for as preaching? Philosophical whatever the word I'm looking for, but you can't live for the future. People tell me this all the time, like well, what if I don't like it in the future? Like I don't know what the future holds for me. I can't get a tattoo for fear of the future or whatever so as not to sound morbid or whatever.

But you don't know what the future holds like you could go out tomorrow and get hit by a bus or you know you could get a disease that shortens your life, like my mom, like she passed away when she was 50, like that's something that I feel like it could happen to me. I know it sounds very dark, but you don't know your future, so why do you worry about it? Don't worry about your future, live for now if you want that tattoo and get it. Obviously, these sensible people about it don't just start out, you know, getting tattoos on their hands and then you want to be a lawyer and you can't be a lawyer because corporations are aware of tattoos, but that's been a problem for a long time.

Because you are smart with your choices and get your tattoos, you know if you want a tattoo on your arm if you want a big tattoo on your back or if you want a small tattoo on your ankle if you want a tattoo on your wrist. But you're worried about the future, just do it. Just be smart. Think about what you want as a career and how that tattoo will affect that side of things. Other than that, go for it, don't worry because all these tattoos can fade out of "fashion" in 15 years or whatever, and even if they do, you have laser.

That's an option as I'm a pretty carefree person. I'm probably the worst person to give advice about things like this, but you don't know that, so make it like, "But it's not like any other trend like getting a nose piercing because you can easily take it out." There is this tendency that is much more permanent in your body. And I'm very curious to see what it will all look like in 15 years and in 5 years, how many of us are just not doing it? I already have tattoos in my age, so yes, I hope you understood this talk.

I have nothing against tattoos. I can find them very, very pleasing to the eye, very beautiful and cool, but I can't imagine getting a tattoo. Just because I am, I always overthink things, overthink things, and look at things from every possible perspective in my brain, and these are just the thoughts I've come to the conclusion that this won't be for me. It would be too scary for me to think about regretting it or you're changing your mind." She seems really sweet and I feel bad making this video because she seemed really sweet, but regretting tattoos is definitely everyone's number one worry.

Tattoos don't they're really so serious. A lot of people exaggerate tattoos as something very serious and it's a very big deal and I don't know if it's because I've become so carefree with tattoos and because I have so many now, but I think even looking back at when I started. getting a tattoo. I didn't really have in mind how much I'm going to regret this. I think it's a question of mentality that I don't know. I personally have never regretted getting a tattoo. I don't know how many tattoos I have to be honest. 30s and 40s.

Definitely, in my late thirties and into my 40s, I personally had three cover-ups and the reason I had the cover-ups is because the originals were old. They went wrong, the whole story behind it. I mean, I've said it many times if you're a regular viewer, I apologize for repeating myself, but when I started getting tattooed I had no idea how good a tattoo could be, what a good tattoo looks like. More or less I got tattoos because I wanted them and I liked them. Obviously, as time has gone on, I have much better tattoos. I learned a lot more along the way, but let's look at how I got when I was 17 18.

I had three of them covered up because they were poorly made and I just wanted something bigger and better there and I knew I could get something bigger and better there. So I just did it and now I'm much happier with them, but I've never, ever regretted it. But I never thought oh my God. This was such a serious mistake. What have I done? I hate my skin I hate my appearance I never thought I don't know anyone who has thought like that. I don't know who these people are who regret their tattoos because people always talk about people who regret their tattoos.

These tattoos, but who are these people? I have never met anyone or talked to anyone who regrets their tattoos. Yes, there are people who don't like them. But for me, regret is a big emotion, like it's something serious. There is definitely a difference between regretting and not liking something. And many people move as if confused. But yeah, as is this whole tattoo regret thing. It's not just a myth. I guess there are people who regret tattoos and stuff, especially drunks or whatever, but I don't know what this video concludes with anyway. I would love to know your thoughts on this video on what I have said and what Elise has also said: Let me know your thoughts and opinions and everything is like a topic of discussion.

Don't take anything I've said too seriously or what? She said very seriously. They are all opinions at the end of the day. It's kind of like non-tattooed vs. tattooed in this situation, but no, it's not like a boxing match. I don't get it. Twisted like we're not going to do a KSI and Logan Paul here. As if it wasn't such a big deal at the end of the day. Yes, I hope you are all well and until the next video. Bye bye)