What about God's opinion? Do you care about that?
Leviticus 19:28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Any future tattoos is a choice to disobey the law. Do you want to keep the law, or use a shallow attempt to make yourself more interesting or be "creative"?
Sorry, not the easy answers and words of encouragement you want, it's the Truth.
That part of "God's opinion" was for the Jewish nation. You know, the ones living
under the law.
Is that you? Are you living under Levitical/Mosaical law?
If so, then I advise you to never get a tattoo.
I also want to let you know that this is a forum for Christians... not Jewish law-keepers, so I wouldn't expect too many folks to be trying to strictly follow Levitical laws.
As it is, I'm kinda with Ellsworth.... I don't like 'em. I'm pretty sure I will never get one (never say 'never', of course)
I have to be careful when I see someone all "tatted up", because my knee-jerk response is to think how trashy they look. But that is from my upbringing, and the social mores that I was raised with.
I know a few people that have quite a few very visible tattoos, and they are pretty decent, "normal" people. In other words, they aren't Satanic, chicken-head-biting kinds of people. Just normal decent folks that happen to have a lot of tattoos.
A lot of churches went through a similar thing back in the 70's, with the hippie movement. People with long hair were shunned by a lot of Christians. It was wrong then, and it's wrong today, IMO. Jesus doesn't want a bunch of little robots, who all look alike, as the only "accepted" ones in a body of believers. He wants us as we are, warts and all. And that is the criteria we should use, as well.