I don't really have a problem with them, except I think gauges are handicapped as forget.
Someday I'll get totem figures on my back with a thunderbird going across my shoulder blades, turquoise, red, and black. Anything else will just be contrasting black to my skin color. I really like south pacific and Japanese tattooing culture. Even the tattoo artists I know from what seems like way back high school days are brilliant.
Still figuring out what to plan for the flank of the torso tho. Probably a naked woman, why not.