XXFP's are who I would envision wanting tattoos. As for least likely to get tattoos, probably XSTJ's. I'm not a fan, personally.

 

Yeah I too agree with this point ,at first I was kind of fascinated by tattoos and I myself had planned for getting a tattoo for myself but later when in real life I saw people with tattoos in weird places ,it was like, I thought "yuck I never want to abuse my skin in such a way".
And about XXFPs ,they would most likely agree with whatever the rest of crowd is doing in order to feel exceptional ,no offense here ,but that's the thing I always noticed about them.

 

I'd agree with xxFPs for self-expression and stuff.

I could see ESTPs doing it to prove they can and ENTPs doing it as an f you to the establishment.

 

ISTP totally getting one the end of the month... I was told I couldn't do it, reason enough.

 

ISFP most
ESTJ least

 

I have one (though I regret placing it in the middle of my back, I wish it were in a place that was ALWAYS covered up) and would have no problem getting another. My ISTJ husband has one he regretfully got when he was 18, but would never get another again.

 

My ISFJ husband has a tattoo he got the summer before college with his friends at 18. Completely regrets it. I'm an ESTP and tried to get a tattoo once but the parlour wouldn't serve drunk people. I wanted: I can't read Chinese. Written in Mandarin as a gag. It would be cool but I have other things to do with my time and I just don't care that much.

 

I wanted: I can't read Chinese. Written in Mandarin as a gag.

Wow, that's just hilarious enough to work :laughing:

Yeah, I'd imagine the types who would get a tattoo would be those either brazen enough to get it spur-of-the-moment just for fun (some ESTPs then maybe, among others) or who care enough to commit to a single symbol (excludes many ESTPs and ENTPs, at the least). No wonder so many ISxJs are being reported to have tattoos. I'm way too noncommittal to even contemplate it. Maybe when I'm 70 just because I'd never done it (I'll be keeping your idea in mind :wink

 

I'm an INTP and I have full sleeves, my GF is INTJ and is covered more than I am. Some of my friends that are covered in tattoos are ISFP, INFP, ESTJ, ISTJ... lots of different personality types...

Me (INTP) for reference....

Most of mine are fairly autobiographical although I have a few that mean absolutely nothing and were done by friends and just are what they are 'art pieces' I guess.

Some of it has to do with what kind of subculture you are interested in, I'm into motorcycles and used to be into punk/hardcore when I was younger. Just being around tattoos all the time makes them more normalized in your mind. I dont really think about them that much aside from when someone else brings them up. Once you get a certain amount it really stops mattering. You have lots of skin.

Just go to someone who is an artist and study up on what makes a good tattoo, linework, composition, color, etc, before you go get something. Also dont consider price into it. Bargain basement shopping for tattoos is the worst decision you can possibly make.

I think that you cant type people by tattoos.

 

I'm an INTP and I have full sleeves, my GF is INTJ and is covered more than I am. Some of my friends that are covered in tattoos are ISFP, INFP, ESTJ, ISTJ... lots of different personality types...

Me (INTP) for reference....
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Most of mine are fairly autobiographical although I have a few that mean absolutely nothing and were done by friends and just are what they are 'art pieces' I guess.

Some of it has to do with what kind of subculture you are interested in, I'm into motorcycles and used to be into punk/hardcore when I was younger. Just being around tattoos all the time makes them more normalized in your mind. I dont really think about them that much aside from when someone else brings them up. Once you get a certain amount it really stops mattering. You have lots of skin.

Just go to someone who is an artist and study up on what makes a good tattoo, linework, composition, color, etc, before you go get something. Also dont consider price into it. Bargain basement shopping for tattoos is the worst decision you can possibly make.

I think that you cant type people by tattoos.

It seems like most people have tattoo's. I've just felt inspired to get it done myself. I'll see a great design and compliment them on it. But there's never been a design or idea that stood out to me as something I wanted.

 

Don't know about most likely but as INFJ, I've got 2. My own design, placed where I can cover them up for work.

 

I'm INFJ and I loooooove tattoos. I have 5 of them. Of course I will get more in the future.

 

I find that these days people of all types have tattoos, though

a) FPs are more likely than other types to have them
and
b) The nature of the tattoos one gets are definitely influenced by type.

For example, I know an ISTJ with a fairly large tattoo of a Christian fish on his inner bicep. Despite its size, it's not very loud, it's an established, recognizable symbol, and it's in a relatively subtle position that can easily be covered in conditions where tattoos may not be desirable. This is different from my ExFP friend who got a very bright, visible tattoo on his shoulder of symbols that represent his relationship with his deceased mother. My ENTP 7w8 sister, on a third hand, has expressed an interest in getting tattoos, but the ideas she's thrown out are very loud and eccentric, and while the ideas carry meaning she has no emotional ties to those meanings (I think she likes the idea of having tattoos more than she does acting on it).

Me, on the other hand? I can't speak for all INTJs, but I currently have nothing that I feel like spending money on to have permanently etched into my skin.

 

SJs (ISxJs especially) are the least likely to get them.
NFs (xNFP especially) are the most likely to get them.

 

Most likely: dom-tert Fi
Least likely: dom tert Te

personally I find them appalling regardless of gender

 

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no tattoos for me unless they are temporary tattoos. what if i get bored with the tattoo? it doesn't just wash away. plus i don't like needles. but i compliment other people on their beautiful tattoos.

 

Most likely: SPs
2nd: NP
3rd: NJ
Least likely SJs

I could never have one, and If I ever got one I would regret it within a week.
Maybe it's my Ni, but I imagine it would look silly when you get old. Grandpa with a tribal and granny with a tramp stamp...:shocked:

 

I never got one even though I talked about it way back when (20 years ago) - probably more to get a reaction out of my dad. I could never come up with a good location to put it or something that would mean enough to have tattooed into my skin.

Now I'm glad that I didn't! I'm sure that I would have picked something stupid! Frankly, now it feels like I'm too old to get one. I have been thinking about getting some 'hidden' piercingly though...

 

I am ISFP and have quite a bit of ink...here is some of it.

 

I'd imagine that maybe the SFPs would want them the most.
The whole thing with the Se and Fi combination, idk but it sounds about right.
I mean, tattoos are supposed to be about expression and stuff, so while all different types might be into that, I can see it attracting the Fi-users the most.

I can imagine that maybe the SFJs would want them least?
Idk, the Si generally being more traditional with the Fe caring about social norms and stuff. Probably depends on what type of environment they grow up in though. Considering overall society as a whole (especially the corporate world) doesn't exactly dig tattoos. Can also see Te+Si people not being interested in them. ESTJ more than the ISTJ, considering their Fi is generally stronger.

I'd never get one because I couldn't give two shits about art, expression and etc.

 

I'd probably never get one because I prefer to do my art on paper and canvas. Plus I don't like needles.

 

I would never get one. Committing to particular design? Forget it. Aside from the young/stupid/rebellious factor I can't see ENTPs into tattoos. Well, at least not me.

 

I'm completely interested in it. I have been for a long time and I was very close to getting one when I was 17 or 18, but I decided to wait on it and save my money. I still am getting some int he future

 

My best advice that I can give you is wait until you're old enough/mature enough to know what it is you really want. At 17/18 you're going to change so much still that what you like now might not be what you will in even 10 years, and what ever you do make sure that the piece has some personal meaning to you as that will be something you'll always be proud to sport IMO.

It's when you go into a shop and pic something off the wall just because it "looks cool" is when you're almost guaranteed future regret.

just my .02 cent.

 

I am too afraid I'l make the wrong decision and will have to live with it forever. I mean I change my mind about things almost by the week, what if I change my mind about how I feel about my Tat. Luckily I am way too skinny to look good with one anyway.

 

i'm gonna agree with the other ENTP's, they never really appealed to me. i just don't get the point, it seems like a waste of money to me. i'd rather buy like an instrument, or a videogame, a bicycle, a night out, etc. that, and i feel it traps you to a certain time in your life, and that makes me pretty uncomfortable. i wouldn't want a reminder of something i did earlier in life, or a mindset, whatever stuck on me, i'd want to move past it. basically, i feel like i'm always changing, and i'd worry tattoos would negatively affect that. no disrespect to those who have them, just not my thing.

 

I think that is part of the difference between Se and Ne. Ne almost wants the level of change to be ethereal or something, while Se knows they may keep rolling forward or crave new experiences, yet feel we are "made" of our experience, who we loved and hated, and the places we have been, the things we have seen.

It may also be rejection of Si, making no tie to past sensory patterns.

I honestly think Mr.Sleeves up there who claimed to be INTP is probably a mistyped ISTP. Not that an INTP would not have a tat, but the body covering tends to be an Se physical impulse or physical need to make the Se impact on others; it may be even part of the tribal behavior Keirsey attributes to SPs...not socially concerned, yet having a sixish bond to a group all the same.

Older SPs don't have them probably unless they were sailors or hells angels. Older Latino people are the same, they say it meant you were in a gang when they were young.

 

you can buy a a video game and in a year or two have nothing to show for your money.


With a tattoo I have a piece of art that will be with me forever.

 

Both of my ESFPs are covered in tattoos. My high school bf had love and hate stitched into his two fists by age sixteen. Now he's in his thirties and he's one of those guys with "sleeves".....my younger ESFP had multiple tattoos by eighteen, and is twenty and recently suggested that he and I get matching tattoos and that I pick it out. I not sure if he meant it, or thought it sounded nice in the moment.

I have one major tattoo ...its actually two small one that are designed as one on my left forearm because I wanted it to be visible.

My ESFJ ex refused to get tattoos despite considering himself punk. My ISTJ is also tattoo-free.

All of my sisters have tattoos, even the ESFJ. My ENFJ bff has a massive design hidden on her back, which she designed herself, she is a graphic artist.

My recent ESFPs older sister is ISTJ and has a back tattoo dedicated to her murdered friend. I think Si types are more likely to get tattoos for their children or dead people, like memorial or loyalty tattoos, and Fe types may be more likely to hide them on their backs or butt.

 

I want to add that I think it also has to do with culture or social class. Im sure many ESFJ men in Mexican gangs have visible loyalty and gang tattoos. The two SJs I was involved with who would not get them are middle to upper middle class.

My ESFJ sister is working class, plus it would suit her Fe just fine to fit in with her three tattooed older sisters. None of her tats are offensive or visible, she actually had one of them removed.