Essay On Tattoo Professionalism

For years people have decided to get tattoos for a large multitude of reasons, all quality reasons to permanently alter one’s body, and the tradition continues but nowadays there is much more questioning. To better understand the debate over lowering the age to get tattooed, one must examine the tattoo artists’ professionalism, the knowledge and acceptance of the risks of getting a tattoo, and the reasoning behind wanting to get a tattoo. Young adults below the age of 18 should have the opportunity to get a tattoo before they legally become an adult, without the consent of their parents. Everyday people are encouraged to express themselves and show off their creativity, tattoos are just another great way to show one’s dedication to their creative

Tattoos do come with risks and anyone that wants to get one should know them, that should be common sense. Normally when someone tries something new, the right thing to do would be to ask questions about everything and anything, which is insisted in my first source, “The personnel should be willing and able to answer your questions. If you feel they are brushing your concerns aside or can 't answer you, leave and seek out a professional shop” (Alliance 2). The simplicity of asking questions is often brushed aside when the person getting tattooed is stressed with ideas like possibly ruining their body, but it is important to remember to always ask questions if you’re really that worried. In today’s age most teenagers depend on what they see online to create a bias about something, the idea of tattoos is a large topic as well so our bias is centered around what is seen by those we idolize. A statistic from the U.S. expounds, “In the 20th century Americans have gone from disdain of the tattoo to such widespread cultural acceptance that it seems more people under 40 are tattooed than not” (Aubrey 1). Seeing as such young people accept the stars of social media as their idols, it’s right to use them as an example to actually get a tattoo also since we see that they don’t have the fears and regrets that are normally thought