new tattoo for the college kid...

mkm56
Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:16:20 +0000

If she is of legal age (that’s 18 right?), knows to use only reputable places, pays with her own money…there’s probably not much to say. I have told my daughter that I sincerely hope she never gets anything tattooed, but if she did at her age (over 21), not much I could say. My biggest issues with it are twofold–one is the health concern, which should be moot if it is a reputable establishment. The second is that I worked as a nurse and saw such pitiful examples of tattoos on sagging, aging bodies—really look bad. A friend’s daughter got a fairly decent sized one on the back of her neck. Her mother was horrified. The d. pointed out that her hair covered it and it only showed when she wanted to style her hair so that it did. The mom exclaimed “And you think you are going to wear your hair like you do at 19 the rest of your life?!” I honestly don’t think the girl had even thought about it. So some day she will be this little white haired lady, sitting in church with this thing crawling up the back of her neck.