Personally, I like them. I have wanted to get one for a long time, I haven't yet because at any place I would even consider getting one done you have to be 19 or over or they won't do it without parental consent. My mum would never let me so I still have a year and a couple of days till I can get one.
I love piercings. My ears are pierced 13 times, 3 on the lobe of each ear, 3 in the cartilage of each and tragus on my left ear. I want more but for the same reasons as above, I can't.
Scarification intrigues me. I am not sure if I would ever get anything done but the thought is there. I am all for anything that defies "polite society".
A friend of mine recently got a tattoo, its of three red stars and they kind of look like they are falling. It looks good, the thing is his parents didn't know about it, they found a picture of it a few days ago and I believe their words to him were "you disgust me" and "if you had been home when we found this you would have been kicked out". They were serious, the fact that hes gay probably didn't help, they don't like that too much eather. Another friend of mine got a pink ribbon on her wrist because her mum died of brest cancer.