Feb 03 2009
TATTOO FRENZY
Today, getting a tattoo has become very popular. All across America, people of all ages are paying big bucks to have a tattoo artist put anything from, names, to graphics, to symbols all over their bodies.
Getting a tattoo is, legal for ages 18 and older, throughout America. However, it has become quite easy for teens to get a tattoo done by a home made tattoo gun, and by an unprofessional. In some cases, a teen is allowed to get a tattoo, if a parent is present and with signed consent.
I would like to know what YOU think, of teens getting tattoos. Should it be legal? Should it be ok to get one with a parent consent? Do you think in most cases people regret tattoos?
I will let you know my opinion, and I hope you will comment back with yours.
I think most tattoos are regretful. In that certain moment, based on what you are feeling, you pick that perfect tattoo. Who is to say, that later on in life your views and likes won’t change? What if that sexy tattoo that you got on your chest, or back, or for a woman on her breast, turns to mush, when you grow old and your skin starts to sag? And what if that name, of that boy, or girl whose name you got a tattoo of ends up being your worst enemy? You see what I’m saying! I mean, for the most part I think it’s incredibly stupid to get a tattoo, because it’s too permanent, in an unpredictable life that we live.
As for teens getting tattoos. This is a bad, bad epidemic! Teens are way too young to get something so permanent put on their bodies. I mean, I can look back when I was a teen, and what kinds of things I liked then. I most certainly would not appreciate, having a tattoo of something from the 80’s, that I’m not into now, or a design or graphic, that I was into then. If that was the case, I think I would be walking around with peace signs, and hearts with swords through them. I would totally regret that now!
All this being said, I do have two tattoos, and I regret them both! I have a heart with a snake wrapped around it ( I, at the time said I was never going to love again, and so the snake was to guard my heart from loving again ) and after 5 years in a relationship, I got a mans name on my arm, in old English ( I’m divorced from that person now and it has been a task to cover it up ).
So, if you are thinking of letting your teen get a tattoo, or maybe you are a teen, you might want to think twice about getting that ever so permanent ink put into your skin. People change their minds too much, and you never know what you are going to be like in ten years. Think long and hard about whether getting a tattoo is a good idea or not.
