Available evidence regarding the reasons for people to acquire body markers such as tattoos is contradictory. The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and body image in young women with tattoos. To this end, the repertory grid technique RGT was adapted and used to assess differences between women with and without tattoos in terms of self-esteem and body image. Sixty young women with tattoos and sixty young women without all aged 18—35 years , performed the Color RGT in order to evaluate the relationship between self-esteem and body image.


Celebrities have been sued for it, and tattoo artists get shunned for doing it. So how do people wind up with identical tattoos? In my partner and I decided, after carefully weighing the pros and cons, to be spontaneous and get tattoos. We were in London at the time, on the back-end stretch of the obligatory unders working visa. The tattoos would symbolise adventure, independence and wild, carefree abandon — or something. My partner walked into a tattoo shop near Camden and picked out a small, minimalist sun from a laminated book.
K ate von D, the tattoo artist and businesswoman, made an appearance on the TLC show LA Ink this week, got a new tattoo and posted a photo of it online. Sounds pretty on brand, right? But the art — which blacks out most of her left arm and covers up previous tattoos — is invoking a vociferous reaction. This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies.
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