Close your eyes and imagine your ideal tattoo. Maybe it’s a unicorn on your ankle? Perhaps it’s a bluebird on your back or a sleeve of dragons on your arm. But for a lot of us, it’s nada at all. For many, nothing feels important or permanent enough to have it branded on our bodies. Studies are showing this could be generational.

On a recent viral Threads post, a person with the handle @2partywithparis asks, “I have a question for Generation-X people. A Google search indicates that approximately 68% of Gen-X-ers never got a tattoo. If this is you, please explain why you never inked your personal canvas.”

Many Millennials love tats

It turns out, according to somewhat recent statistics, that Gen X (and Baby Boomers and Gen Z, for that matter) has been less likely to get inked than Millennials, at least in the U.S. The Statista Research Department notes: “According to recent surveys conducted in the United States, tattoos were common the most among Millennials. Indeed,........

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