Tattoos

An anchor on Popeye's arm is one thing. Soldiers, sailors. Goons. bandits. The usual stuff. The good, the bad and the ugly. But nowadays even young ladies sport them. It's Body Art. Different designs, from the exclusive to the usual (dolphin, cute devil) and that same ugly shade of grey-ish, blue-ish tone and possibly a touch of some ugly sort of red.
Body Art.
Some people really go all out, covering pretty much every inch of space on their body with some piece of "art". Including the face. At twenty it's ugly (and scary) enough. Imagine that at eighty and toothless.
It's some kind of statement. It sure is.