Tattoos and bodybuilding

[FireGuy]

Tattoos are not supposed to come into play, neither are scars or stretch marks (the kind women get). But just like a jury who hears something and are told to disregard I have to believe some prejudice can come into play. For the most part I think tats are pretty much safe but I seen a few where the entire legs have been covered or huge colored ones that take up 80% of a persons back. It can definately make it harder to see muscle separation if taken to an extreme.

[lovbyts]

Tattoos are not supposed to come into play, neither are scars or stretch marks (the kind women get). But just like a jury who hears something and are told to disregard I have to believe some prejudice can come into play. For the most part I think tats are pretty much safe but I seen a few where the entire legs have been covered or huge colored ones that take up 80% of a persons back. It can definately make it harder to see muscle separation if taken to an extreme.

I agree with FG, I was at my first competition last week and one guy had a large tat on his chest. It took me several minutes to figure out what it was, it just looked DARK compared to the rest of him and really threw things off IMO. It was a distraction and made it hard to tell the definition.