More Christian tattoo artists a positive development?

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Is is a positive development for more Christians to train and work as tattoo artists?

  • Yes; positive for more Christians - preferably men - to train and work and tattoo artists

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shnarkle

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@shnarkle It doesn't surprise me at at; it's become very much a womanly thing to do now (to think it used to be overwhelmingly a man thing, but not any more). Not only do senior women who have it done evidently see it as a way of retaining womanly style, a faith / family based design is also often the motivation. So I'm not surprised by it, were you surprised at first?

I wasn't surprised. There's not much that surprises me. I spent 20 years living in and around the San Francisco bay area, and those women could have sleeves, prison tats, all over their faces along with a few prominently placed gaping holes with dayglo painted bones thrust through with gold chains dangling crucifixes

These were just tats about the size of a golf ball on their ankles.
 
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amadeus

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Folks should be different and have NO tattoos :D Everyone and their grandmothers has them now and, they do not a thing for me, what can I say? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Give God the glory for what you do have and don't worry too much about others who seem to be more concerned with their own comfort and doing their own thing than in pleasing God.
 
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farouk

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Oh yeh. For sure. I can never see my tattoo as self mutilation. Definitely a different mind set.
@Mayflower Yes, definitely. @shnarkle even commented: "One of the churches I go to has three quite elderly women, all widows, who recently went out and got themselves tattoos." It's evidently something that people - seemingly especially women - of all ages can do from a definitely different mindset because the inking is interpreted as an an enhancing acquisition, anyway. You yourself can speak with some authority on the vastly different comparison, also.
 

Prayer Warrior

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Oh okay! :) so you do admit that a discreet bit of tattooing has become fairly mainstream (even among not a few Christians, perhaps especially as a fairly benign womanly enhancement).
I agree that tattoos are a lot more mainstream. As for being completely benign to a person's health, that I can't say.
 
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farouk

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(Moved to the tattoo thread because of subject matter)
I think just about everyone I see on a daily basis has, at the very least one tattoo.
@Nancy Yes, it's become a sort of rite of passage for both genders now at 18 onwards. (The days when only men had them done are long gone.)

Hence the very strong demand for tattoo services. (Hence also the question of more Christians pursuing parlor work; and the poll question.)
 
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farouk

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I agree that tattoos are a lot more mainstream.
Yes, and while years ago a few ppl might have still thought that 'nice young ladies don't get tattoos', yet in fact today, speaking generally, it's exactly what many serious Christian students, preachers' daughters who are considering faith based designs and wanting to witness to their friends, homeschooling moms, etc., are likely to get. This is a fact.

Hence the question of the wide demand for tattoo services. (Hence the question underlying the poll, also.)
 

farouk

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She’s not to crazy about the ink, she just wants to support the girl like me.
@Waiting on him I guess there is some measure of recognition that, just as receiving ink — of which many Christian women avail themselves — has become a very womanly thing to do (whereas it used to be very much a man thing, almost exclusively), so also now giving as well as receiving ink has logically, by way of extrapolation, become a profession and conscious series of acts which a woman can confidently do.

Once this logic has been grasped, then I guess some former reservations will likely diminish, right?
 
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Naomi25

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@Naomi25 Likewise, logically, the question of Christians working in tattoo parlors also arises...doesn't it?
Um. I'm not exactly sure how to say this, and I most certainly don't wish to hurt your feelings; never that. But...honestly, I'm just not sure why you keep tagging me into this thread. I think I've said more on tattoos etc than I've ever really had thought on, ever, and I'm honestly not sure what else to say. :oops:
 
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