NO
Just no.

Bodybuilders are beautiful human sculpture.They shouldn't ruin it with somebody else's lousy graffiti.
It's like a house full of clutter,and bric-a brac.Visual trash.
It seems like everyone is trying so hard to be unique...by copying the crowd.It just doesn't make the impression people think it does.
Regarding the judging;it should count against a competitor.Skin should look healthy,and attractive on a physique athlete.
But they won't have the guts to stand against something popular.it might cost the contests entrance fees.

NO for me too.
I am very sad when I discover an fbb has chosen to tattoo. Except for very little spotty tattoos not hiding the shape and the simmetry I am not for them. But many fbb perhaps consider them a part of their personal transformation. I has to be tollerated, I think. But I don't like. 

I'm not into tattoos.

Another vote for no tattoos.

It can be more attractive & I like the Celtic Armband type, like sa2009 has put in his post in the pic on the left but the spider web is growing on me,

Slightly contentious I guess, but personally I get turned off by tattoos and IMHO, I think it takes away from bodybuilders raison d'etre which is to maximize and accentuate the aesthetics behind their hard built muscles (physiques)....I don't mind Denise Rutkowski's ankle tattoo which is barely noticeable but sleeve tattoos for example would make the most beautiful woman, horrendous from my modest point of view...just an opinion!

tats don't add anything, especially to a muscular woman.  the irony is that tats were typically signs of subjugation, i.e. imprisonment, internment, concentration camps, etc.  now they are just empty signifiers. 

the late 80s FBBers were the pinnacle - no tats, few with implants - and increasingly with time those physiques seem unimaginable now.  Pretty much any younger woman into physical culture now will also be susceptible to tats.  An exception who reminds me of that golden era is Chelsey Coleman, and I think even she has one (though I think it's hardly noticeable, not least bc the rest of her is so glorious).

Bottom line is I'm too old...

I agree !  while i'am not against them all , a select few have them done tastefully . But sadly most are taken to the extreme for the sake of it . Find it interesting that something that came from the prison culture ..   is now so widely adored .

No tattoos at all is the best.

There's no box for indifferent.

the tats take away from what they are training so hard to achieve.the first thing you notice is the tats not the body.

the tats take away from what they are training so hard to achieve.the first thing you notice is the tats not the body.

You don't have to convince me. I remember posting some pictures or clips of Melody Spetko when she first came on the scene. To make a long story short, you was on one. 

Lower-back tattoos, not bad, either.

They call lower back tattoos Tramp Stamps.

To each their own but personally,no.Ladies,just cause you got lovely canvas doesn't mean you have to draw all over it.

I personally hate tattoos. Small or big, black or colorful, complex or plain they're not for me.