<p>post 44, thanks, lol</p>
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<p>EK - like I said it’s clear you already have your mind made up in favor of tattoos. You agree with everything on this thread said in favor of tatoos and argue against every point that is anti-tattoo. Why waste our time pretending you are looking for input? Just go get your tattoos and enjoy them.</p>
<p>Is this like a " have the last word thing"?</p>
<p>I was having fun talking about it- if you don’t want to read the thread start a new one, but wasn’t that tattoo of the dolphin hysterical?
gah-</p>
<p>There are definitely more tatoos around these days. At a pool in Boston last summer I saw a grandma w/her grandkids – she had multiple tatoos up both arms. Somehow that takes a little of the ‘renegade chic’ away from it, although of course grandmas are entitled to their creative expression as well!</p>
<p>Why I wouldn’t get one: I don’t trust my own personal taste such that I’d want something static for the next 50 years. 
I think the technology re: temporary tatoos is evolving quite quickly.</p>
<p>Son has said he’d want one eventually…my strategy: whatever you like, but there are x, y, z considerations to the contrary. Failure (by me) to vehemently object in matters of personal appearance usually leads to failure
(by him) to cling relentlessly to the idea. :-)</p>
<p>Yesterdays renegade chic is todays conformity signifier. The more I read these posts the more Im convinced that Im going to invest in a mall based
chain of tatoo removal parlours.
Yes Im a card carrying former hipster. I had the punk band in my twenties–green hair an all, and living in Hollywood Ive seen fads come and go. And the
tatoo thing is definately GONE. Somehow I avoided the tatoo phenom. D is the current family arbiter of hipster taste–she has avoided them as well. As
she says now==="MOMs are getting them NOW! Why would I ever do that!'</p>
<p>I agree that getting a tatoo is much more drastic than cutting your long hair, as I mentioned. I only said that b/c as long as you HAVE the hair you have options - just like NOT HAVING the tatoo - you still have the option of getting it or not…</p>
<p>Just my warped reasoning I guess.</p>
<p>I like options! :)</p>
<p>I wonder if tatoo parlours tend to see an influx of moms before and after
the kids go off to school…?</p>
<p>No time to read all the comments, but if you do have a tattoo in your lower back, you won’t be able to have epidural anesthesia, ever.</p>
<p>AIDS and Hep C are big concerns. A shop in my city, (with good health department supervision) had an outbreak.</p>
<p>While some consider them body art, they won’t help with any employment.</p>
<p>My children know I would forgive them anything but a tattoo.</p>
<p>Says cheap to me on a kid, and somebody unable to accept aging on an older person.</p>
<p>ggh1, actually that is a common misconception. According to the Mayo Clinic-</p>
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<p>As for never forgiving your children - why? Because you don’t think it looks nice? It may be something you don’t like, don’t want on your child’s body, but I certainly don’t think it’s unforgivable.</p>
<p>For the record, I do have a small tattoo. I’ve known exactly what I’ve wanted for the past 5 years, thought about it, I do live in a state that regulates tattoo parlors, I watched them open the brand new needles and one time use ink. Things like tattoos are only dangerous if you choose to do them dangerously.</p>
<p>“ggh1, actually that is a common misconception”</p>
<p>No, it is not, but it is for somebody to discuss with their doctor. The concern is the ink getting inside the body and causing an infection. I would imagine if the whole epidural area isn’t covered with the tattoo, it could be worked around. Many women have very large ones that cover the whole area.</p>
<p>In my opinion, and why I wouldn’t want my children to have one, tattoos are associated with a deviant culture, are not socially acceptable (especially if visible), and are sources of disease (AIDS and Hep C).</p>
<p>ggh1, where do you live?</p>
<p>The only reason I ask is because tattoos being socially acceptable is a regional thing. Especially where I live, they’ve become almost commonplace.</p>
<p>As for never forgiving your kids…that seems very shallow to me. Are you really going to stop loving your kids because they want to modify their body?</p>
<p>“ggh1, where do you live?”</p>
<p>Someplace where tattoos are very common and there are lots of tattoo parlors.</p>
<p>Tattoos are permanent, unless you want laser removal and scars. Don’t do anything to alter your body until you are old enough to understand the implications.</p>
<p>As I stated earlier, you can get a deadly disease (not rare) and you don’t know where you will be living or working later in life.</p>
<p>My kids don’t want to modify their bodies. Most kids who do, are doing so to be part of a peer group, or haven’t been taught the possible ramifications. Mine have.</p>
<p>Um…so have I. And let me tell you, I’m not one of those “ZOMG I HAVE TO FIT IN OR I’LL DI” girls. But if I didn’t have the low pain-tolerance that I do, I would get a tattoo. </p>
<p>Really, as long as your careful, you do research about the place where you want to have it done, and you get something that you know will still be meaningful to you in X years, why should it matter to others?</p>
<p>Every action has possible ramifications. Does that mean we should just live under a rock and never do anything that could maybe, possibly have a negative impact on our lives? How boring.</p>
<p>Also…if getting infections/diseases from tattoos is so commonplace, why is it such a big deal when it happens? (I know here, it’s very heavily publicized and the shop is often shut down.)</p>
<p>I wonder what peer group I was trying to be part of when I got my tattoo in my mid-forties?</p>
<p>Don’t feed the ■■■■■■, kids.</p>
<p>I am not a fan of tattoos but have come to appreciate some of the fine art and the talented artists. There is one named Pavel Angel and the artwork is beautiful. His canvas happens to be skin and the tattoos lifelike.</p>
<p>[Tattoos</a> - Pavel Angel - Gates of Heaven](<a href=“http://www.tattoonow.com/Tattoos/Pavel_Angel/tattoos_20318.html]Tattoos”>http://www.tattoonow.com/Tattoos/Pavel_Angel/tattoos_20318.html)</p>
<p>S1 had always wanted a tattoo and we told him when he was off on his own he could do what he wanted…Last summer he did it. It is on the inside of his forearm - a medieval style lion. It’s quite unique. He’s a teacher and the school doesn’t make him cover it, but he wears long-sleeved shirts anyway.</p>
<p>here in tampa it seems like everyone gets a tattoo for their 18th birthday! a lot of people iknow got a tatto just to get one. it really doesn’t have any meaning for them. it’s really popular for the girls to get tattoos on their lips. that way its hidden. quite frankly i think theyjust think it makes them gangsta. but i don’t see how little mercedez driving girls could actuaaly think they’re gangsta lol</p>
<p>I looked at that link(from laxmom) and wondered----whats going to happen when that guy stops pumping iron?----isnt the canvas going to be a bit droopy? I mean to say
I love art. I really like abstract expressionism, but on my wall, not on my
tush.</p>
<p>Those cute little butterflys always morph into fat, ugly, distorted buzzards twenty years hence. It’s inescapable. </p>
<p>Seen it, <shudder></shudder></p>
<p>MOWC, I’m trying to imagine you with a group of forty-somethings all going down for your tattoo. </p>
<p>Do I wish my son had waited, thought things through, and then gone ahead anyway? Yes. But the recent improvements in his life and efforts in other areas have made me realize that a tattoo isn’t so bad. </p>
<p>It’s all relative.</p>