These 14 Photos Show What Happens To Tattoos As You Age

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You wouldn't know it by looking at the number of people with tattoos today, but it used to be that only outlaws of a sort were inked. If you had tattoos, especially if you were a woman, society thought of you as hard, weird and strange.

Older people who have tattoos got them long before they became popular. They didn't get inked because it was trendy — they did it as a way of expressing themselves in a radical way. With so much tailored to the young, older people are often invisible and are thought of as irrelevant, but when a senior citizen is heavily inked, you can't help but notice them.

Arguments against tattoos were that they would look awful on wrinkled and aging skin, when actually, older people with tattoos look badass and fabulous. Their tattoos tell the stories of their lives and will continue to last as their memories start to fade.

Here are 14 Instagram photos of inked senior citizens who show that they're still as vibrant and colorful as the tattoos they so proudly wear.

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