When I was growing up, the only people who got tattoos were drunken sailors on ship leave.
I lived a few miles from a major port, and there were a whole lot of them!
Tattoos look good on sailors, Marines, bikers, pro wrestlers and exotic belly dancers. Everyone else stay away from the needle.
Same, when I was growing up it was ex-cons and sailors that had tattoos. No one would dream of getting one. In the early 80’s I came home from college one weekend with a pierced ear. My dad called me a name that rhymes with momo and berated me the entire weekend. I took stupid thing out as soon as I got in the car on my way back to school.