Poll: Best age for first tattoo?

[farouk]

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll!

If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now! :)

 

[farouk]

as to girls getting "inked".. I think it's already mainstream.
...I remember when they used to try to "hide" them because it was just starting to switch from male to female.

What you said a while ago is right; it's mainstream; both genders now have it done with confidence. (Which brings a lot of potential and opportunities for faith based designs.)

 

[prism]

PS: No I'm not, but it seems compelling to acknowledge the witness potential of faith based tattoos, as do a lot of Christian young people.

Do you think it would be good if more Christian young men and women were prepared to make careers of being tattoo artists, for all the potential there?

LOL, that's a personal choice. Personally I'd rather wear a T-Shirt with a message as tats are too permanent. It would be nice though if Christians weren't so allergic to the fine Arts.

 

[GodsGrace]

What you said a while ago is right; it's mainstream; both genders now have it done with confidence. (Which brings a lot of potential and opportunities for faith based designs.)

Why are you so interested in this?

 

[farouk]

Why are you so interested in this?

So widespread and so much faith design witness potential.

 

[farouk]

LOL, that's a personal choice. Personally I'd rather wear a T-Shirt with a message as tats are too permanent. It would be nice though if Christians weren't so allergic to the fine Arts.

Thanks for your comment!

Some Christian young people have a lot of artistic potential; if more of them spent time looking at parlor portfolios, then maybe more of them might become interested in the potentials of work and witness opportunities in the field of tattoo art.

(I hope I'm not somehow being naive here... )

 

[GodsGrace]

Thanks for your comment!

Some Christian young people have a lot of artistic potential; if more of them spent time looking at parlor portfolios, then maybe more of them might become interested in the potentials of work and witness opportunities in the field of tattoo art.

(I hope I'm not somehow being naive here... )

Agreed.
If we could just tear them away from their iphones.

 

[farouk]

Agreed.
If we could just tear them away from their iphones.

Well, often parents seem to give 18 year olds iphones of one sort or another. (They also seem to expect that their 18 year olds to get tattoos, it would appear...)

 

[GodsGrace]

Well, often parents seem to give 18 year olds iphones of one sort or another. (They also seem to expect that their 18 year olds to get tattoos, it would appear...)

Agreed.
Times sure have changed.

Remember when SOME PARENTS were still holding out -- refusing to get their child one of these new phones? Seems like yesterday. Now the parents buy them as a gift. How the world has changed....

 

[farouk]

Agreed.
Times sure have changed.

Remember when SOME PARENTS were still holding out -- refusing to get their child one of these new phones? Seems like yesterday. Now the parents buy them as a gift. How the world has changed....

Part of it is probably that parents want their teens to be safe and so have reckoned that a cellphone - with bells and whistles - enables them to call for help.

Seems also that when 18 year olds go for their first ink, it's not unusual for a parent to go along with them to the parlor to give moral support. (It's not something that the 18 year olds necessarily do surreptitiously; they do it confidently and openly, often with parental support now.)

 

[GodsGrace]

Part of it is probably that parents want their teens to be safe and so have reckoned that a cellphone - with bells and whistles - enables them to call for help.

Seems also that when 18 year olds go for their first ink, it's not unusual for a parent to go along with them to the parlor to give moral support. (It's not something that the 18 year olds necessarily do surreptitiously; they do it confidently and openly, often with parental support now.)

I agree with the first paragraph.

How about this for the 2nd?:

If a parent needs to go hold some kids' hand....
don't you think that kid is too young for ink?

 

[farouk]

I agree with the first paragraph.

How about this for the 2nd?:

If a parent needs to go hold some kids' hand....
don't you think that kid is too young for ink?

Oh I agree...what I was observing was that while years ago young ppl seemed to get tattoos surreptitiously, now the parents seem to be on board with it...

 

[GodsGrace]

Oh I agree...what I was observing was that while years ago young ppl seemed to get tattoos surreptitiously, now the parents seem to be on board with it...

Oh agreed.
My friends daughter,,,way back when...
had her upper ear pierced for an earring.
It was in style back then.
She made her hair grow first so her father wouldn't notice!
This worked for a couple of years and then she was about 18/19 and she just told him.

Could you imagine?

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[farouk]

Oh agreed.
My friends daughter,,,way back when...
had her upper ear pierced for an earring.
It was in style back then.
She made her hair grow first so her father wouldn't notice!
This worked for a couple of years and then she was about 18/19 and she just told him.

Could you imagine?

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In the scheme of things, for young ppl, an extra piercing or a bit of ink are not too different, are they?

It's so widespread now.

 

[GodsGrace]

In the scheme of things, for young ppl, an extra piercing or a bit of ink are not too different, are they?

It's so widespread now.

Wait a minute.
But because something is widespread,,,does that make it be good?

 

[farouk]

Wait a minute.
But because something is widespread,,,does that make it be good?

Oh I agree. But in the scheme of things, an extra stud in an ear or a cross or Christian fish sign <>< on a wrist, etc., are hardly things to "moralize" against, are they?

 

[GodsGrace]

Oh I agree. But in the scheme of things, an extra stud in an ear or a cross or Christian fish sign <>< on a wrist, etc., are hardly things to "moralize" against, are they?

No.
Just wanted to clarify that just because many do something does not mean it's right.
I don't believe there is anything immoral about getting ink, as you put it.
UNLESS it represents a certain life-style that may not be the best.

 

[farouk]

I don't believe there is anything immoral about getting ink, as you put it.

It used to be that sailors and bikers got tattooed, and nearly always men.

Now it's almost become part of 18th b-day celebrations when not unusually siblings and friends or even parents might go along to commemorate the coming of age. (Of course, doing it in a hurry can lead to a later regrets, can't it?) And probably even more females than males do it now; at least, in North America apparently 59%-70% or more of parlor clients are female, according to statistics.

There's been quite a demographic sea-change, really, it would appear.

 

[farouk]

It would be nice though if Christians weren't so allergic to the fine Arts.

There are probably quite a few Christian young ppl with real skills in art who would probably make good tattoo artists if they were open to pursing it.

 

[farouk]

It was in style back then.

Probably still is, IDK...