Poll: Best age for first tattoo?

[soul man]

@soul man PS: I think there is such a potential for faith based tattoo designs today. Maybe it would be a really good idea if more young Christians were prepared to pursue tattoo artist careers, do you think?

Yes I do, I think anytime you can give a witness for the Lord you should. People are memorized by the cool tats and alot of conversation comes from it

 

[farouk]

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[farouk]

Yes I do, I think anytime you can give a witness for the Lord you should. People are memorized by the cool tats and alot of conversation comes from it

Yes; tattoos really are proven conversation-starters. I saw a quote which shows how nurses use theirs to put their patients at ease. (I'll try to dig it up.) My wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite Bible verse and mine also; and I'm sure that other conversations have arisen as a result of the young lady's willingness for her wrist area skin to be pumped with ink.

There is such a demand for ink, it seems; and huge possibilities for faith based / Bible verse tattoo designs; that it would likely make for a very satisfying career for Christian young men and women.

 

[soul man]

Yes; tattoos really are proven conversation-starters. I saw a quote which shows how nurses use theirs to put their patients at ease. (I'll try to dig it up.) My wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite Bible verse and mine also; and I'm sure that other conversations have arisen as a result of the young lady's willingness for her wrist area skin to be pumped with ink.

There is such a demand for ink, it seems; and huge possibilities for faith based / Bible verse tattoo designs; that it would likely make for a very satisfying career for Christian young men and women.

Yes my wife had a nurse that has verses on her arms and it opened up a good conversation and fellowship

 

[farouk]

Yes my wife had a nurse that has verses on her arms and it opened up a good conversation and fellowship

Yes, it's what nurses do, very widely; and when Christian nurses do it, so many opportunities open up. As you guys have already proved. (Hope your wife is doing well now.)

Clearly from what others have said, nurses have so thoroughly taken to ink that it's a proven ice-breaker with patients. FYI:

..one of nursing school classmates.. was also a tatoo artist prior to nursing school. In fact she tattooed alot of our classmates.. I had 2

I have 4. .. In the hospital that I work at you would be hard pressed to find employees without tattoos.. even.. significantly older nurses .. have tattoos.

More of the nurses that I work with have tattoos than do not. On my shift, only three don't have them (of 13 nurses). We have several nurses (including myself) who have visible tattoos; one gal has them on her wrists. My hospital does not even have a policy on tattoos any longer; it's a total nonissue.

I get the most heartfelt compliments from older men with tattoos (or the wives of older men who had tattoos). I love it when a 90 year old fellow pulls up the arm of his gown to compare tattoos with me and then tells me the story (fact or fictionalized, I don't care) behind his tattoo. Usually a war story, often something of a coming-of-age story.... I've had a few wives tell me of their husbands' tattoos after seeing mine. It's such a sweet, intimate, bonding moment, and I feel so privileged to be told a story that may have only been related to close friends and relatives.

allnurses dot com

For Christian nurses — whether of the younger or older generations — to get faith based ink clearly opens up so many opportunities.

I'm sure your wife would agree, right? and was really pleased to see her nurse's arms inked up with Bible verses.

 

[soul man]

Yes, it's what nurses do, very widely; and when Christian nurses do it, so many opportunities open up. As you guys have already proved. (Hope your wife is doing well now.)

Clearly from what others have said, nurses have so thoroughly taken to ink that it's a proven ice-breaker with patients. FYI:















allnurses dot com

For Christian nurses — whether of the younger or older generations — to get faith based ink clearly opens up so many opportunities.

I'm sure your wife would agree, right? and was really pleased to see her nurse's arms inked up with Bible verses.

Yes she is thanks, she was pretty sick for a while with a blood infection.

 

[CharismaticLady]

I guess it proves that even among tattoo veterans and experts the adage is still true: Beauty (or ugliness...) is in the eye of the beholder...

(I'm sure you would agree, wouldn't you?)

Personally, I though he had the best tattoo of the night! But he had the shin to work with. Thinner skin and over bone, so he got ripped for it because of trauma to the thin skin. What did they expect? It looked great and the client was happy. It will be fine when healed.

 

[farouk]

Personally, I though he had the best tattoo of the night! But he had the shin to work with. Thinner skin and over bone, so he got ripped for it because of trauma to the thin skin. What did they expect? It looked great and the client was happy. It will be fine when healed.

Placement really is a big factor, isn't it? Seems that favorite placements for so many men and women are places where it is bony and where the skin is thin.

But people seem to be brave and press on regardless and artists do their best pumping into the placements that have been chosen. If the skin is thin and hurts, this is really not the artist's fault is it?

(Sometimes I wonder just how objectively based are the decisions of the judges in such competitions.)

 

[farouk]

@justbyfaith How's the Calvary Chapel person doing who you said got a tattoo to commemorate progress in a mental health issue?

 

[CharismaticLady]

Placement really is a big factor, isn't it? Seems that favorite placements for so many men and women are places where it is bony and where the skin is thin.

But people seem to be brave and press on regardless and artists do their best pumping into the placements that have been chosen. If the skin is thin and hurts, this is really not the artist's fault is it?

(Sometimes I wonder just how objectively based are the decisions of the judges in such competitions.)

And the challenge was bold color, so he couldn't go easy. I guess the trick is in such cases, do a hard one pass, rather than too many thin layers of ink.

 

[justbyfaith]

@justbyfaith How's the Calvary Chapel person doing who you said got a tattoo to commemorate progress in a mental health issue?

She appears to be doing well.

 

[farouk]

She appears to be doing well.

This is good. Health-wise, feeling good is important; and a lot of ppl would say that a new tattoo is all about feeling good, also (in some vaguely connected, though in other manners distinct, ways), if you follow?

 

[farouk]

And the challenge was bold color, so he couldn't go easy. I guess the trick is in such cases, do a hard one pass, rather than too many thin layers of ink.

Close up footage of a tattoo machine slowly and firmly pumping ink into skin on top of a blueprint which has been superimposed on the desired placement can be very instructive as one sees real professionalism in regular, measured movements; it can take a true professional to enter not too deeply, not too superficially, but to pump the dermis with bold and steady strokes as a real work of art emerges.

 

[farouk]

@CharismaticLady FYI:

The close up footage can be very instructive, in slow motion:

 

[farouk]

I would be more open to it for sure.

To some extent it's about what you have been accustomed to in the past; whereas your daughters whose ink you said you admire will have always been accustomed to women being tattooed widely and confidently.

(Does this make any sense?)

 

[farouk]

Yeah! we have the same mind set.

...except maybe when it comes to tattoos... (I do think faith based / Bible verse tattoos have a lot of potential.)

 

[WalterandDebbie]

...except maybe when it comes to tattoos... (I do think faith based / Bible verse tattoos have a lot of potential.)

I remember when I was a kid, I made my first tatoo between my thum and finger, and it liked to become infected, because it was not done right, so I learned my lesson.

 

[farouk]

I remember when I was a kid, I made my first tatoo between my thum and finger, and it liked to become infected, because it was not done right, so I learned my lesson.

In those days it was nearly always men who got tattoos. Now in North America even more women than men get them (often in family and faith themes). I do think there is a lot of potential for faith based designs and for tattoo artist careers for Christian young men and women today.

 

[farouk]

it liked to become infected, because it was not done right

Young ppl really should be advised to use a tattoo parlor, and be aware of the consequences of not going to the parlor to do it.

 

[farouk]

@"ByGrace" A while ago you said:

My adult grand daughter has 7 now I think...

Well, it's what young ladies do now. Some would say that rather than fighting against the idea, better just to embrace it.