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    Should I get a tattoo? You asked Google – here's the answer

    Every day millions of people ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Elle Hunt, a Guardian editor, answers one of the commonest queries
    by Elle Hunt Aug 29, 2018 4 minutes
    ‘One-fifth of people said they’d spent no time at all settling on the tattoo they now regret.’ Photograph: Alamy

    I got my first tattoo 14 months ago. I see it every day except when I am especially absentminded in washing myself. Yet, still, the sight of it takes me by surprise.

    Almost 20% of Britons aged 18 and over are estimated to have a tattoo. Among 25- to 39-year-olds it could be as high as 30%. A furtive recce at my gym suggests more women have tattoos than don’t; the real distinction is level of commitment. The woman I saw last week, with the elaborately shaded Illuminati eye across her décolletage? She had committed. Me, with my line drawing no larger than a credit card, placed just so on my ribs – not so much. And that had felt like a leap.

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