The sound of needles rapidly pouring ink into teenager’s skin, as they screamed in pain made me think hard and long about what tattoo I was going to choose. I’ve made up my mind for a while because I saw a picture that my friend drew and I knew that that would be my first tattoo. It is of a beautiful woman wearing a kimono holding a fan over her face but on the fan is a demon. This tattoo is representing the side of me that grew up in Sacramento. Most of my friends in Sacramento are of Asian descent, I wanted to get it on my back so it represents that past so I’ll never forget. Although this is the tattoo I want, I'm waiting for myself to grow so my tattoos wont stretch or fade as easily. Instead of this being my first tattoos i decided to …show more content…
Tattoos have become a form of expressing culture, art, personal experiences, God, and many other creative concepts. In this day and age parents are getting worried about what a tattoo could affect their children’s future; although what they don’t know is that tattoos have become substantially more common in our society while the parents of these adolescents are from a time where tattoos are not as accepted. He writes, “An Interested and nonjudgmental appreciation of teenager’s surface presentations may become a way of making contact not only in their terms but on their turfs; quite literally on the territories of their skins” (29). The thesis talks about how teenagers have been getting tattoos for years before they were popular, but the acceptance of tattoos has changed dramatically to where most adolescents when they turn eighteen to twenty-one get …show more content…
They will be there forever while everything else could change. Adolescents Sometimes get tattoos because of a fad or group affiliation. Getting peer pressured into getting a tattoo could have you regretting your decision later. Doing so gets rid of the sentimental value of tattoos. This is why it is very important to put great thought into what tattoos you decide to get because they will be there for the rest of your life. People get tattoos because they can represent anything and everything that a person has been through or just some cool artwork. They are a form of art just like any other. “Tattoos and piercings can offer a concrete and readily available solution for many of the identity crises and conflicts normative to adolescent development.” tattoos could help out anyone looking to find themselves just by taking some time to think about what they want to get. I myself got my first tattoo of a simple cross on my wrist to remind myself that there is always someone looking out for me. “By indelibly marking their bodies, adolescents can strive to reclaim their bearings within an environment experienced as alien, estranged, or suffocating or to lay claim over their evolving and increasingly unrecognizable bodies” (30). As an Adolescent grows up they go on a journey to find themselves mentally and physically. Tattoos are one way young people these days find themselves. The most cherished memories and events are what