/fa/ - Fashion

Can someone please explain the point of tattoos that goes beyond cultural and institution driven meaning?

Such a large percentage of tattoos come off as gaudy or a product of little long term thought. There really is nothing about tattoos that most people get that seems genuinely significant so why exactly get arm sleeves of a wolf or a squid fighting a boat, a turtle or a tribal band?

Why get birds or your dead cat on your chest or back?

So /fa/, those of you who have tattoos why did you get them and those of you who refuse to why won't you?