Comments on: Monday Teeny Poll

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:59:29 +0000

I actually did get what I consider adults-only tattoos; I got my eyeliner tattooed on, upper and lower. It’s NOT for kids, especially since it does fade over time (just fade; nothing awful), and needs to be renewed.

It’s not a bizarre color, or anything, and it’s not very heavy; if I want really striking eyemakeup, I put additional makeup on over it. I’m saving up to get my eyebrows put back on, since they’ve faded out.

I did it for myself, to make me happy. No one knows unless I say something, and it certainly doesn’t adversely affect my job.

It is absolutely imperative, though, to find an accredited practitioner - it’s not the same technique that’s used on body tatts; you really, really don’t want someone making a mistake!

By: Zenevieva

Zenevieva — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:51:15 +0000

I feel sorta silly saying that I wouldn’t want my kids to get tattoos till I’m gone… because really, its just that I wouldn’t want them to get them where they are visible. And why do I feel so silly. Well, I have one. Its very small (about postage stamp size) and it lives on my right hip where, even in the lowest rise jeans that I wore in 1998-2003 it wasn’t visible. Only the people that I want to see it can see it. And I don’t actually plan on telling my kids that I have one. Its not like anyone but their father will see it.

By: Merry

Merry — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:46:07 +0000

As my dear Father-in-Law told my dear Husband, ” You get one body. Don’t write on it.”

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:09:13 +0000

If getting a tattoo, get something beautiful, classy, and timeless, and coverable.

With all due respect (I do come from the generation where tattoos=”I been to the Big House”), I would never put the words “tattoo” and “classy” in the same sentence.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:33:56 +0000

Why has nobody said it yet? Unless you are Maori, tats are seriously passe. And what do you do now? Not everybody can afford to turn “Winona Forever” into “Wino Forever”.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:09:40 +0000

Tattoos are not a big issue in our house. Both my husband and I are covered in them. But nothing below the elbow or above the neck, so they have never been a problem in the workplace for us. I do think that kids should wait though, until they are at least 18 before they get their first one. And they should have the money to pay for it themselves. That will give them plenty of time to think about what they want before they get it.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:57:09 +0000

If you are of legal age, working, supporting yourself, then what ever floats your boat. Just ask yourself one question, “Will I be so proud of this that I will want to show it to my daughter?” I took the plunge this year when all of my friends and family decided it would be funny to get me gift certificates to a tattoo shop. It’s pretty scroll work on my back, invisible in a business suit, decorative in something backless, and makes no political, religious, or idealogy statement or shows any preference for any cartoon character. My youngest sister had Mickey Mouse on her lower back and everytime she got pregnant, Mickey disappeared down the crack. My niece (other sister’s kid) has a lot of tats and many are visible and some obscene. She is now 23 and has figured out that getting a job is difficult when you put trash on your body. If getting a tattoo, get something beautiful, classy, and timeless, and coverable. It’s just like that little black dress, it can be tasteful or slutty, depends on how it fits and what it shows…

By: cheeky

cheeky — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:08:38 +0000

My aunt peer-pressured me to getting my ears pierced when I was 21. I am afraid of needles, so piercings were never going to happen of my own volition. Because of said fear, I’m not likely to get a tattoo, either, but if I did, it would so thoroughly upset my grandmother (and mom and dad and grandfather and everyone else in my family), whom I love dearly, that it doesn’t even appeal to me.

My parents just made it really clear that they think tattoos are trashy and that they would be disappointed in us for getting one. I have no doubt that would be just the type of thing that would drive another kid straight to the nearest parlor, but what can I say?

By: Twistie

Twistie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:25:06 +0000

I think I was probably the only person ever peer pressured into getting her ears pierced by her mother who had finally decided to take the plunge. I was eighteen when she decided it was time to get holes punched in her earlobes, and she bribed me into coming along and having it done, too. I hate needles. I nearly fainted.

Tattoos were never an issue in my family. None of us seemed to want any. If I had a kid, though, and (s)he wanted one, I’d say fine. Once you turn eighteen and use your own money, you can do whatever you want to decorate your body.

In the meantime, I know I’d be the sort of mom who would do temporary tattoos with the kids.

By: La Petite Acadienne

La Petite Acadienne — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:12:40 +0000

The rule in our home was you can do anything as long as it isn’t permanent

Good rule. That’s the one I plan on having when I have kids. I’ll let them pierce their ears at 12 (just regular piercings, though — none of those huge things that stretch your earlobes big enough that you can stick a finger through them.)

As far as hair goes, they can do whatever they darned well please. I’ll probably put up a token fuss though, just to make them feel like they’re rebelling.

But no tats or wacky piercings. I have a tattoo, and I have a navel ring, and I got them both well after the age of 19. If I waited, so can they.