Ah kids, these days. Don’t you hate it when they want to get a tattoo? How best to discourage them? I have some thoughts and I shared them with Lisa on The Today show this morning…..take a look.
As I wrote in this post about tattoos recently:
Bikies are really going to have to find a new way to look tough. When mothers groups and school canteens are hotbeds of ink? When tattoo parlours practically require a crèche? Dude, your street cred is getting seriously compromised.
Indeedy, it seems we’re on the cusp of a fascinating generational shift. If tattoos have traditionally been about rebellion, how will the kids of all these tattooed mothers rebel?
Maybe by doing charity work or something.
The reverse psychology approach is one I’ve adopted with my own children for years. To them, tattoos are as unremarkable as pierced ears. So many of the women in their life have them. Aunties, godmothers, babysitters, family friends… if pressed, they would probably say that tattoos and boobs are usually found on the same people (not tattoos ON boobs, that’s a different thing altogether).
Do you have a tatt and did anyone ever try to talk you out of it? What would you say to a teenager who wants to get one?
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i love tattoos and so does my mum! she took me to get my first for my 17th birthday, and i've just had my 9th finished, 10 years later, and it wont be my last.
Mum was with me when i was getting a large piece around my wrist finished so i surprised her, and we got matching stars on out feet.
being a parent now, i would let my kids get tattooed when they are adults, as long as i knew they had thought out the design and it wasnt on their neck or hands. oh, and they would have to pay for it themselves, cause they aint cheap!
also, i've only ever been tattooed during possitive times and for happy reasons, so while they may age, they are my history, and its not like i'll be flaunting them when im saggy, more likely they'll be hiding under my 'spanks'.
I've never understood the baggy skin excuse. All skin looks old when you're old, whether you have a tattoo or not. I can't see how the absence of a tattoo makes this any more palatable. I don't think anyone is really ready to age. So get a tattoo to remember your youthful self. Saving your skin for the future is like hoarding easter eggs til the next easter. Enjoy your body while it still works and if you like adorn it, or not. But don't worry about what it will look like in the future, because you'll look different too.
My only issue with the skin becoming wrinkly is losing the orginial shape of the artwork.
Being a perfectionist I would want to get surgery to stretch my skin back to where it's meant to be so my tatt still looked right.